Originally Posted by
squirtdad
the actual cost of buying lubes is so cheap, that unless you are doing hundreds of bikes the cost is negligible
You have to keep in mind that this place is rife with people who will spend hours searching the Internets to save $0.50 on things like inner tubes and buy multi-lifetime supplies of CO2 cartridges because the unit cost is much lower than that you can get from a LBS.