We fry our organic steak in oil from environmentally friendly production. We bite into a pesticide-free Granny Smith with relish and slip into clothes that have been produced in an environmentally friendly way. Only our bicycle chains are literally drowned in lubricants based on crude oil and enriched with synthetic substances. Rain washes the questionable mixture off the chain and washes it into the ground. But there have long been safer solutions. Sunflowers and other plants not only delight your loved one at home. Pressed and provided with the right additives, vegetable oils lubricate the bicycle chain reliably and sustainably. The laboratory test shows whether they do their job as well as refined petroleum products.
In order to be allowed to put the "biodegradable" seal of approval on the bottle, the lubricants have to undergo extensive tests. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) 301 series tests prove that the products biodegrade quickly and completely. More than 60 per cent of the test substance must be degraded within 28 days. The CEC test is also a recognised procedure. It indicates what percentage of the sample is still present after 21 days. All manufacturers fulfil at least one of these two standards. Biotech goes one step further with its Chain Lube. It is the only chain oil to have been awarded the "Blue Angel" environmental seal and thus classified as non-hazardous to water.
But what should be even more interesting: How do the organic lubricants compare with the classic oils?
The test results of these bio-lubricants can be found below as a PDF download:
- Atlantic Bio Chain Lube
- Biotech Chain Lube
- Dynamic Bio Chain Lube
- Holmenkol Natural Bike Lube
- Muc-Off Dry Lube
- Muc-Off Wet Lube
- Pedro's ChainJ
- Pedro's GO!
- Rohloff Special Chain Lube
- Squirt Dry Wax
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