Dear Lazybikerweb: recommend a chain lubricant?

[solarbird]

Some people here might bike, never know…

I have an eBike with a standard chain. It’s a Class 1 Bulls, meaning pedal assist only, and most actual use is as a rather heavy standard bike.

My use is a mix of errands and commuting. The assist is great for cargo, when I have to get someplace far-ish as fast as I possibly can, and I when I’m biking up my BRUTAL HILL, which is the kind of hill that’s steep enough in parts that automobile drivers complain about it.

Given this kind of usage, what’s a good bio degreaser and what’s a good lubricant for my chain?

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Comments

[arethinn]

My biking is much lighter demand than yours (at most 30 miles a week commuting on a conventional road bike with only mild hills and no cargo hauling), so I probably can't recommend a good lubricant (I use a light one), but I use this chain cleaner, for what it's worth: https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/bio-chainbrite-cb-4

[solarbird]

Eyyyyy, one of the ones I was looking at. Great! Thanks. ^_^

Recommendations are all around wax for here in winter. So I've got a bit of that coming.

[solarbird]

Also 30 miles a week isn't that much less than me and some weeks it is less than me. Even in the relative boonies of Seattle, Most of my errands are walking distance, albeit with a more generous than usual definition for that. I'm 0.5 miles from one small shopping area, 1.0 from two others in opposite directions. Not knowing that may make my biking-for-errandry look like a lot more than it really is.