Has anyone tried Corrosion-X? It's mineral oil based but is supposed to adhere to metal using polar bonding, and to prevent / stop corrosion better than regular oils. I use it on my saltwater fishing reels and table saw table and am thinking of trying it on my chain.

Until now I've never lubricated my chain at all and have just relied on the factory lube.

Somebody did stress the light duty nature of the bicycle chain. At this point I'd be willing to bet that if you clean it, in 99 of 100 ways you can clean it, and lube it, with one of 99 out of 100 lubes that you'd be just fine. Just keep it up.

I use triflow. It seems to work as well as anything else and is less gummy than some.
YMMV.

There may be additives in the gear box oils that may not mix and resulted in your milkshake. But gear oils are different from the light duty lubricants that bicycle use.

All of the oils and/or waxes that you use for bicycle chains will mix together. People who use home brew motor oil cut it with mineral spirits and wax lubricants usually use mineral spirits as a carrier. "Like dissolves like". It may take a little time but wax and oil will dissolve in each other.

You know that stuff that comes from your Dog's glands that need squeezed by the vet every once in awhile to keep him from scooting around on the carpet?

yea, I use that.

+1 on the Prolink. Used it for 5 years on commuter and road bike. I've gotten good chain mileage and never broken one and removed from bike for cleaning.

Recently switch to White Lightning chain cleaner/lube. Leaves no residue. Chain clean after 100 miles of riding.

Great stuff. I use this on all my bikes and have for several years now. I tried White Lightning, Prolink, and a couple of others. This is the best stuff so far. The trick is that you need to start with a clean chain the first time you use it. Get ALL the old lube off and then lube up with Dumonde. The chain runs super quiet and lasts about 2X as long as I was able to get with Prolink. The chain also runs quieter than prolink and other lubes I've tried. I like this stuff a lot.

J.

I use ATB but I dont know if you can still get the stuff. Ive never seen it sold in shops and had to hunt high and low to find the guys email address to buy some from him but I will say, its the best lube Ive ever used hands down. REALLY quiets the drive train and isnt uber messy.

I use WD40 when the chain looks too dirty or dry, and follow it up with bar and chain oil applied with a paper towel. Bar and chain oil is what's used in chain saws, which have similar chain and run at higher RPM's. Seems to work good.

http://www.dumondetech.com/dumonde/w...ducts/lite.jpg

http://www.purpleextreme.com/Images/PEbottle1.gif

I hate to bring a thread back from the dead, but I was using the Dumonde Tech for the last year or so as I tried the Purple Extreme that I had a sample of. Is anyone using this stuff at all? This Purple Extreme lube seems to be pretty good. Seems just a tad smoother through the shifts through out the gears.

+1 for purple extreme ... love that stuf ... leave no residue to the chain and smooth shifting

load the oil on liek crazy, i always see people cassetes so under oiled and dry its hilarious

I wonder where the people who use chainsaw bar oil ride? In a hospital?

I tried that stuff on one of my chains...once. Even though I had wiped off the excess after application, after the ride my chain was so filthy I could barely distinguish the individual links. The cassette looked like a mudpie. That stuff is like glue for dirt and grit. Took me forever to clean that crap off the drivetrain, never again.

+1

Any low viscocity oil will do. Gear oil with a little mineral spirits works well too.

I use mineral spirits on a rag to clean my chain.

whenever preparing chains and cogs, just make sure its clean. then spit on it, and starting hammering away.

Rock n Roll Blue...

I have some called "Dry Teflon Lube", I'm guessing it's not good? Any recommendations?

+1

My favorite lube
 

DuPont Performance Lubricants - Dupont Teflon Multi-Use Dry Wax, I found this on the internent and I love it. I use to use White Lighting, but they discontinued their aerosol spray can product that I prefered over their liquid drip wax lube. I find with the DuPont lube I could skip lubing my chain every other ride and it holds up to wet whether ride also, which is a plus.

The type of lube you use can be highly dependent on riding conditions where you live so what works for one person may not work as well for another and how you go about lubing your chain can have a great effect.

But as far as wet lubes go... they are all basically oil and solvent and they all work pretty well.

I use WD40 on my chains after I add a lower viscosity oil to make my home brew... WD40 is a great solvent but is a terrible lubricant on it's own. I mix 1 part oil (chain saw or 20 weight oil is great) with 3 parts WD40 or mineral spirits and this penetrates extremely well and once the chain is wiped dry I can go 300- 400 km in the crappiest conditions and never worry about re-lubing or having my chain act as a crud magnet.

Tri Flow is not a popular lube here as it really attracts dust (and we have a lot of that) but in other climates works fine.

My home brew costs about a 6th of what commercially prepared lubes cost.

Phil's tenacious oil is terrible straight up as it is sticky as glue, a pain to wipe down, and gets flung everywhere but with a little extra solvent, it is great stuff.

Lots of my bikes have fenders which does a lot to prevent the front wheel from throwing every bit of crud I roll over right into the front chain ring and chain which then gets carries and deposited throughout the drive train.

Tell me that you are joking that you used to lube your chain after every ride, and do so now after every second ride.

Honestly, if I can't get 100 rides in on one lube, then the lube I'm using isn't worth squat.

Home made pro-link made from 70wt full synthetic gear lube diluted with mineral sprites till very thin applied sparingly link by link with a needle oiler
http://www.mcmaster.com/#needle-oilers/=fsv0ve
Then wipe off with a clean rag. Allow to dry over night. When applied to a clean drive drain, everything stays grit free for long time. I will ocasionaly re wipe and reapply. about every third time chain comes off for a thorough cleaning in agitated mineral sprites, blown off with compressed air. The secret is to get the lube inside the chain with the outside being as dry as possible so as not to attract dirt.
Not as involved as it sounds and I hate the sound of grit in my drive. My chains go many thousands of miles.
My home made brew is cheap!!
Matt