SQUIRT CHAIN LUBE E-BIKE

£14.99 SPECIFICATION Bottle: 120ml • Contact: extrauk.co.uk

Wet lube works fine in the winter, but come the summer it can get a coating of dust like sherbet on a Dip Dab. Traditionally, you switch to dry lube at this point, only to have a wet spell render your chain as dry as a bone. Squirt Chain Lube hopes to eliminate that problem. It’s a wax rather than a liquid and designed to work in all conditions. To start with you need a perfectly clean chain. That done, you need to dry the chain completely, drip on the wax, and let it dry without wiping. The idea is this coats the moving parts with a thin layer that water can’t wash off.

The Squirt outperforms everything other lube I’ve tried. At the moment it’s pretty dry and dusty where I ride, but my chain doesn’t get coated in dust and there’s less build-up of the black gunk you usually get around the jockey wheels from a regular lube. Conversely, when it was stinking wet last winter I found myself riding more between chain cleans because the drivetrain kept running so smoothly. I switched to regular wet lubes for a few rides as a comparison, and my drivetrain was noticeably graunchier. This e-bike version is billed as being better under higher pressures and the greater torque generated. I can’t tell any difference between the two in performance; however, the e-bike lube tends to form a thicker layer and a few times I’ve found big blobs of it stuck to a chainring.

Squirt Chain Lube E-bike is really expensive, but it’s very effective, you need to use less of it less often, and it’s great for a smooth ride.