Muc-Off launch C4 Wax chain lube developed with Team Sky + video

If the ingredients can be skewed to turn out to be 'Sky Blue' so too can the results.

I like Muc-Off products but Team Sky just keeps getting more and more wanky.

Nope.. I have woken up and it is the 1st of April. Isn't it?

Indeed when you are already down to 4% body fat. Have trained to within a micron of human capability, already have a perfectly efficient pedalling style, honed your position in a windtunnel, bought the £15k bespoke TT bike then you'll need to get the extra 7w from some expensive blue wax lube.

Until then I suggest we all try to pedal a bit harder.

Oh and if this stuff really was worth 7w in a dog eat dog race. I bet Sky wouldn't let anyone else even know about it.

Coming up next, Peter Belt rainbow foil for chains!

I wonder what the longevity" of the stuff is? After all, whilst their race bikes get stripped down and rebuilt every day, anyone on here that claims that every one of their bikes gets a full wash and relube after every ride is either not riding enough or telling porkies. Even the pros probably don't do that on their training bikes. As for those of us that commute...

So, never mind the marginal gain, how well does it put up with rain without acting like a magnet for gunk?

I don't think its for sale anyway according to their website...

The C4 Chain Wax has been produced purely for Team Sky’s use for competitive time trials. However the Efficiency Dynamometer will now allow quantitive data analysis of all lubricants – liquid or wax. Muc-Off will continue to test it's own lubricants against that of competitors, to ensure they are the most efficient on the market!

I'll just have to have train harder.

Surely it will only give you an advantage if nobody else is using it?

"the other members of the team will use the chains that fit their role in the team"

This chain is shiite — it's for you.

New heights of surrealism, unbelievable.

so in the muc-off video they state that the lube can give a 90 metre lead over a 60 min tt.
the current record i like is boardman's 56.375 k, or 56,375m.
90m represents 0.0015% of that distance.
I believe these items are termed marginal gains.

I'll wait for the Friction Facts testing I think

“This [dynamoeter] allows the Muc-Off R&D team to hand pick the most efficient chains before treating them with the C4 Wax"

Wonder if this selection process happens to be part of the "7 watts more efficiency" claim?

If you bought the right tri gear (deep section wheels, aero bars, aero bike), the right webbed gloves and aero race jerseys, the right helmet and then used this lube, there'd technically be almost no need to pedal, because they all claim about 10W saving apiece

I wonder if a 'quick puff before a big effort' is more or less than 7 watts?