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When I entered the cycling world in 1968 we used anything from 3in1 oil (and the difference between the veg and the petroleum based stuff being lost at this young age), through sewing machine oil to auto 20W stuff. About 10 years later waxing chains came onto my radar. Just before that Triflon entered the market (who here was in a shop that got the promo package of TriFlon oil and the Guns and Ammo mag reprint of the automatic firing of their M16 increasing with less carbon build up...)
By the early 1980s and MtBs were becoming the money we began to see more alternatives to paraffin and machine oils. This and the advance of the media in our cycling world has driven the "is it Tuesday, must be ceramic wax day" lube market. Andy
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