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Wet lubes

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01 Oxford Mint Wet Lube £11.99 for 250ml

Sizes 60ml, 125ml, 250ml

● Lube is a very good oil-based chain lubricant. It’s minty green in colour, but the accompanying minty scent isn’t especially strong. Thankfully, the lubricant hangs around for far longer than the smell, proving tenacious across multiple rainy rides. It attracts dirt relatively quickly, like many other wet lubes, so the chain gets black before too long, but I’ve noticed less gunk build-up in the pulley wheels than I’ve seen with some other

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