Muc-Off’s new Hydrodynamic Lube was developed with Team Sky and is claimed to be 15.5 percent more efficient than the brand’s C3 Wet Lube and 27 percent more efficient than the competition.
The Hydrodynamic Lube (£16 for a 50ml bottle) came to fruition as a result of Team Sky wishing to provide its riders with the most efficient and long-lasting wet (or dry and dusty) lube in the peloton – just one of the team’s famous marginal gains.
To collate the quantifiable data that Team Sky needed before adopting the new lube, Muc-Off built a Chain Lube Optimisation Dyno (CLOD), a chainring and sprocket rig that allows the brand to test chain lubricant in “micro detailâ€, giving quantitative data on efficiency and performance durability – unlocking comparisons between different formulations.
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Muc-Off's MD, Alex Trimnell, said: “After over 15 formulas and hundreds of hours of lab and real world testing, we arrived at our newest breakthrough… we can now prove with cold hard data that we are leading the way in bicycle lubricant development.â€
That development process saw 426 days of formulation development and thousands of miles logged by Muc-Off’s own team before handing the prototype lubes on to Team Sky. A fittingly cyclical process then began with Team Sky riders testing each different formulation, before each lube spent 300 hours on the CLOD to get the data needed for reformulation.
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