WD40 for your Chain!

[winjim]

You don't need to purchase a gallon to be paying £270 per gallon. It's a rate. In a similar manner you can cycle at 16MPH without having to travel for 16 miles or for an hour. It's a maths thing!

I understand the maths

 

[bpsmith]

[QUOTE 3536106, member: 9609"]£270 per gallon as opposed to £14 per gallon for Oregon super chain saw oil - the choice is yours.[/QUOTE]
Petrol is cheaper than Water in Dubai...but which is better for you? ;-)

 

[downfader]

Petrol is cheaper than Water in Dubai...but which is better for you? ;-)

..think about it. The chainsaw oil will be designed for high friction, tensioned chain and to shed debris like saw dust.... could interestingly be an ideal and dirt cheap solution for cycling

 

[Stu Smith]

Chainsaw oil does it not go black and sh#ty very quick ?

 

[winjim]

OK. I have two bikes ridden 3-4 days a week. Say I want to buy enough lube to keep the chains running smoothly for at least a year, maybe two. I can buy a big (100ml) bottle of bike specific chain lube for about seven quid, which should last for that length of time.

Now say I want to buy the same amount of chainsaw oil. Well I can't, because nobody will sell me 100ml, I can only buy it by the litre, which again costs me about seven quid. So to get my two years worth of lube it has cost me exactly the same amount of money, only the product is inferior (it does turn black and shitty as @Stu Smith says) and I've now got 900ml of useless gunk hanging around doing nothing.

Saying bike lube is £270 a gallon sounds extortionate but really it's meaningless because you simply don't need to use anything like that amount. Seven quid over two years? Pocket change.

 

[bpsmith]

@winjim is spot on!

 

[pawl]

more like a red herring

This thread is gettin fishy.

 

[winjim]

@winjim is spot on!

There's a first time for everything.

 

[glenn forger]

 

[bpsmith]

[QUOTE 3537306, member: 9609"]The comparison was to demonstrate the very high cost of this oil, yes we know marketing in small quantities is going to be more expensive. Lets be generous and say the extra costs involved in providing the oil in a 100ml container is £1.00 (the pound store has a range of all manner of stuff in 100ml bottles) The recommended retail for the wet lube is £6.99 link minus the presumed bottling costs of £1 gives us oil at £272 per gallon. Some of the most expensive fully synthetic engine oils designed to meet the needs of modern high performance diesel engines are only about £50 a gallon, so what exactly is in this bike lube that makes it so expensive.


As for going all black and gunky

bikes probably got in excess of 40k on the clock (chain has probably been changed a few times though)[/QUOTE]
Your point about the price holds water, of course, but the counter point is that it's still peanuts for what you use.

Your point about the black and gunky has been proved against you I am afraid...based on your own evidence in that photo! That's just unacceptable on one of my bikes. Mine will never get in that state!

Away from home, so can't go a close-up, but you get my drift:

 

[bpsmith]

There's a first time for everything.

True.

 

[Gravity Aided]

This thread is gettin fishy.

Someone baiting others, I suppose.

 

[Gary E]

I've been telling people for years not to use WD40 on their bikes (unless it's rusty and they actually need a penetrating oil as opposed to a lubricant). Now I'm going to look a right mug lol

 

[Scotchlovingcylist]

I got some bike specific wd40 in an aerosol a few years ago, managed to get it all over my rims and brakes then I saw the light and now use dropper bottles

 

[Trickedem]

We know someone who used WD40 spray on their chain, don't we @ianrauk