[Closed] Rock n Roll Extreme Lube - UK stock?

Nope, and I've email RnR , Ribble and some other online retailer to enquire about stock and no one has bothered their arse to get back to me.

So it looks like we'll be looking for another brand.

B*lls! The greatest chain lube in the world isn't available just as autumn hits.

Suggestions for the nearest equilivant?

Yep i'm in the same position. Cant fine a decent alternative.

Squirt

http://www.xcracer.com/shop/viewproduct.php?productid=41

Anyone using rock n roll gold lube? There is some of that around, and although not as wet focused, it sounds like it might be ok?

I got mine here - [url= https://thecycleclinic.co.uk/ ]Cycle Clinic[/url]

Fixed the URL now!

Urgh :-/ I read a thread that said it had all disappeared as the guy making it had packed it in sometime last year ? Then a load turned up in ebay so presumed it wa back to normal. I am now confused.

Urgh :-/ I read a thread that said it had all disappeared as the guy making it had packed it in sometime last year ? Then a load turned up in ebay so presumed it was back to normal. I am now confused.

Out of stock at the cycle clinic

Someone mentioned ProGold Prolink Xtreme Chain Lube, I think I'll give that a try next..it looks like a similar 'thin' lube, Rn'R style.

Pain in the backside, the best lube for UK conditions... isn't available in the UK.

Progold Extreme is good, but it's not as clean as RnR...

Smoove

Bramblesummer I think I have a litre of it I might be able to help you out but I'm in Northern Ireland??
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I'm liking Wickens & Soderstrom... the cheaper one

Fudge, you've possibly just booked a seat in my house for Christmas dinner - email sent

Mailed you back Aaron

Ah FFS...

http://www.velodistribution.co.uk/velo-distribution-bike-lubricant-reseller/

Velo seem to be the distributor, I'm going to fire them an email in the morning.

As much as it's a nuisance, I'd rather switch brands than scrabble for limited remaining stock like a desperate meth addict. Not that you're meth addict bramble

It says they're out of stock too?
But let us know if they do have some ta.

Tweeks http://www.tweekscycles.com/bike-accessories/lubricants-cleaning/rock-n-roll-extreme-chain-lubricant

Have had the large bottle on order with tweeks for over a month!
Last email from them says another 4 weeks!

Hopefully what I have will last til then.

I've got half a bottle of it left in the toolbox, prefer squirt personally.

Now.. shall we start the bidding at £50?? 😆

Urgh :-/ I read a thread that said it had all disappeared as the guy making it had packed it in sometime last year ? Then a load turned up in ebay so presumed it was back to normal. I am now confused.

As far as I can tell the company is still around - but I gave up trying to buy their products in the UK. On an extended trip to the US, and have bought myself a litre of it. I don't know what the difference between the Extreme and the Gold versions are - I buy the Extreme when I can because I like to think I'm an EXTREME rider, but as far as I can tell the main difference is the Gold turns to solid wax at a slightly higher temperature than the Extreme. For both, in Scotland, I have to bring the bike and the lube indoors for awhile to apply.

I noticed this some time back. I switched to Squirt after some reading up and it is actually very good.

You can also actually buy it! 🙂

Squirt is good but doesn't seem to clean like RnR.

I used to rotate both of them.

My last batch of RnR was rubbish actually. Seemed too thin and not enough of the waxy stuff to lube.

Squirt is great if you're a fair weather rider.

I have ordered some of this [url= https://brokenridersuk.com/collections/accessories/products/rex-chain-lube ]Rex Chain Lube[/url] as heard good things about it. As we are now approaching an extended spell of dry weather (I'm an eternal optimist) I won't get to see how it performs in the wet and mud for a while.

I'm currently using the Rock N Roll Gold and so far i'm impressed. Seems to keep the drive train clean and it's not washed away after one wet ride!

on my last 1/2 of a small bottle here so have just ordered a couple more from Tweeks - wonder when they will turn up !

As we are now approaching an extended spell of dry weather (I'm an eternal optimist) I won't get to see how it performs in the wet and mud for a while.

I'm putting my mud tyres on this week! 😉

I'm putting my mud tyres on this week!

You had them off?

Purple Extreme lube has worked well for me for the last two years all year round even with peak district winter rides. And it is still available in the UK.

If it's any help, I ran Squirt all through last (Scottish) winter and the (equally wet) Scottish summer. That's going out twice a week, whatever the weather and it seems to work fine.

conversely, for typical west of Scotland riding, i find Squirt washes off pretty quickly on wet/splashy trails. Certainly doesn't last a 2-3 hr wettish winter ride. I have it on both MTB's at present, and the boys bikes, but RnR or, if I can't replenish it, Prolink ProGold Extreme will be going back on soon...

ive given up with all clean running lubes, end up either coming off mid ride in the wet (then when it dries up after mid ride) the noise the drive train makes sounds awful

ive just gone back to muc off wet lube, so far as long as you get the excess off well, it doesn't seem that mucky to me (though I do clean the chain regular), and it lasts, all ride, no matter how wet and filthy

hypnonewt, care to share where....? Ta

Just as I'd moved back to R&R from Progold!

I'd like something less petroleum based but I'm struggling to find anything that actually last for a few hours in the wet splashy conditions through the winter.

I've found White Lightning Clean to be OK, haven't noticed any loss of chain life since switching from RnR when supplies first dried up.

hypnonewt, care to share where....? Ta

Wiggle have it, pricey but worth it in my opinion.

My last batch of RnR was rubbish actually. Seemed too thin and not enough of the waxy stuff to lube.

Yeah same here I actually thought it might be snide & somebody just ripping it off.

I had 4 bottles like that. It was after the first time the lube lost its distributor and the first batch proceeding that.

I've bought some RnR Gold in the hope that by the time I've used what I've got left of Extreme and that, there will be more stock!

I not so long back bought a big bottle of RnR Extreme off eBay from a bike shop in Australia!
Took less than a week to get here and the shipping was about £6!

I also have a bottle that I thought was watery and not up to much. Have used:

Squirt - surprisingly good
Muck off wet - dirty stuff
Tf2 - was my go to
Tf2 extreme - thick snotty stuff
Muck off team sky - actually really good but not cheap

RnR gold is in stock. Seems to work as well for me as the extreme stuff for year round road and off road.

The time had come to put the Squirt away here ! Proper wet conditions tonight and it was all washed off after about an hour....

Back to the remaining RnR when it gets relubed in the morning.....

twohats, I've seen that listing on ebay, no import duty/vat etc?

I ordered some Rock n Roll extreme from Tweeks on 10th Sept as it was showing as in stock.
It still hadn't arrived yesterday so I emailed them. Turns out it wasn't in stock when I ordered and they're expecting delivery on 13th Oct 🙄

^^^^ Interesting, as mine hasn't turned up from Tweeks either....

mailed Tweeks, got same answer, have therefore cancelled order....

Standard Tweeks practice IME.

I took a punt and ordered some from the ausi shop on ebay, will will see when it gets here 🙂

Spoke to the importer at the cycle show today. There was a 1 month delay as the labelling was being changed (now non flammable) then disaster hit in Houston with the recent storms and flooding. There are 2000 bottles of extreme lube in Houston port that are paid for by the uk distributor, but are stuck until the storm devestation clears up enough to get the stock to the uk. There was genuinely 1 bottle on the stand for display only, and not for sale! Sounds like it’ll be here in a few months......

If you look on ebay, i ordered from the Australian seller on there. Post was less than £5 and it was here air mail in less than a week! Awesome 🙂

I think I have a 1/3 of a big dispensing bottle (The one you refill small bottles from) left. It’s free to anyone in North Birmingham who wants it.

I did order some from Oz too. With the gift of some from here plus what’s in the way I’ll hopefully have enough for the supplier to get it back in stock.

If anyone is really desperate, the the ‘Holy Cow’ lube is reportedly as good as the extreme stuff.

Thread bump.
The stuff has arrived from Oz, but a card through the door says I have got fees to pay 🙄
Not a bargain then!

I find the White Lightning Epic Ride (the green one) a good all round all weather performer. The purple stuff is better when it’s seriously damp and mucky.

Agree with jsync on the MucOff. I ran the C3 wet for a winter with my normal chain care routine and the filth at the end was unbelievable. The very dirtiest chain lube I’ve ever used, and if it’s that dirty it more or less has to be picking up grit which isn’t good in the Peaks.

granny_ring precisely the reason I didn't, got caught before with Tax and fees , thankfully I have a full 4oz bottle and another 4oz left from a 16oz bottle so should be enough til UK stock replenished

brenin up there ^ didn't get caught for charges so guess it's pot luck.
I did hopefully others wont.

I think it's hit or miss on your postie, mine has changed to someone we know well and now don't get charged

Does your postie decide who gets charged or not?! 😀
Would have thought it was higher up the chain that made those decisions?

For those that want to know, with fees it came to a tad under £33.

FYI, I'm a postie and surcharges are not decided by us. The cards are dished out by the office for delivery by us. Sometimes the parcel will come through the system without being surcharged, if that happens it's rare that we will point it out to management and will just deliver to the customer coz we are awesome like that!

I've got a bottle of rnr extreme I picked up last year that should see me through this season , but I can't remember where I bought it now, somewhere online uk shop....through the drier month, I have been using scottoiler UBS and rate it highly. It doesn't last as wel as some, especially in the wet, but I usually take a small 2.5 oz bottle of it in my pack on longer or damper rides n top up if needed. The best bit about it is its water based so a bit of overspray on discs isn't a problem and also, a simple rinse with a garden hose and the drivechain is spotless!! Seriously the cleanest running lube I've used.

Got 4 bottles from RIbble the start of this year, as others have said it felt watered down to previous bottles,
RIbble are oos but have the dry and the gold in 4oz and 16oz

And totally agree about mucoff I stripped a bike to fit onto a different frame and the drivetrain was black, it took me two hours with half a can of bubblegum scented degreaser and a bucket of hot water to clean it
Then another hour to clean the bucket

stopped using it after about what seems 10 years on the stuff (especially in winter!), found the last few big bottles I had in the uk (recent) were very watery indeed, even more wasteful than usual and didn't seem to last anywhere near as long on a wintery wet day (6 months of the year)

I emailed the US to see if it was normal (which obvsiouly it wasn't in my eyes given ive used it so long), and the guy at the other end was a complete and utter absolute bellend, will never buy it again, the most arrogant, condescending piss kidney ive ever had the displeasure of speaking to

I'm now just on muc off wet lube, at 4 quid, it lasts, it keeps working, and if you use your brain when applying it, it is no dirtier/filthier than anything else at all

Just had a notice of dispatch email from Tweeks cycles.

I cancelled my order with Tweeks at the beginning of this week. They'd taken my order (and money) when they didn't have stock and then said they would have stock by 13/10/17 and they didn't.

Likewise, mines inbound from Tweeks 😉

I've just had some Holy Cow, one dry commute this morning with a lovely quiet chain and a very wet gritty ride home with a noisy chain. I'm guessing it's a bit like squirt maybe.

I never thought much of RnR extreme. Wasteful application, messy, expensive, not that good in the filth, and not that easy to clean off for a decent re-lube.

I've tried loads of lubes of the years. And settled on three chains in rotation with a full degrease and soak.

I've done away with all that now, by using Wickens and Soderstrom. Don't bother with the expensive no.5. but try no.3 brilliant stuff.

It's the first lube Ive ever used that has measurably extended the wear life of my chains, and thus transmission.

Put some on my mates chain the other day, first time I've used it...very runny.

I've done away with all that now, by using Wickens and Soderstrom. Don't bother with the expensive no.5. but try no.3 brilliant stuff.

Got some of the no5. Not impressed . Very expensive and pisses everywhere but the chain.

If you're a squirt and spin guy, I can see how you could say that about any lower viscosity lube tbh.

No.5 is very expensive, and not as good in the clag as No.3.

My RnR ran out the other week and I cancelled my Tweeks order a while back. Have been using ProGold Prolink Extreme again and finding it very effective. Not as clean as the RnR but lasts all ride fine even when pretty wet and manky.

I've used all sorts over the last twenty years ..by far the best though is this ..
https://uk.knivesandtools.eu/en/pt/-ballistol-maintenance-oil-spray-200-ml.htm?gclid=Cj0KCQjwvabPBRD5ARIsAIwFXBkW9Lazm6AAVgMedgF-lNJeosxW9seUIHZq7ztzf30c_ch45WJ-HmoaAjgUEALw_wcB
Not actually bike specific which may put some of you off ..but it sheds mud & water better than anything I have previously used and has a multitude of uses ..
Those of you brave enough can thank me later ..

Scienceofficer, Lee of W&S confirmed
"Yeah No.3 is much better for winter use, No.5 is great but better as a race lube."
Top man! I will try the No.3 on your recomendation!

After serial disappointment with muc off ceramic, wet and dry lubes I fell into purple extreme, very clean lasts a whole week of the wet commute.

Just trying some Silkolene motorbike gel lube for winter....