Squirt Hot Wax- Chain Lubricant

Hot Wax has long offered performance-oriented cyclists benefits in friction reduction, a fact that led Squirt Cycling Products® to develop a product without the usual break-in time drawbacks of traditional hot wax. The Squirt Performance Hot Wax uses a proprietary blend of various waxes along with a unique mixture of friction modifiers, high-pressure additives, and anti-wear additives to produce a hot wax that achieves 94% efficiency immediately upon use. This figure increases to 96% within 5 minutes and stabilises at 97% to 98% after 15 to 20 minutes. In comparison, other hot waxes provide only 70% to 74% efficiency initially, reaching only 94% after more than 30 minutes, and their optimum efficiency after 90 minutes or more.

“Our aim in developing Squirt Performance Hot Wax was not simply to bring another hot wax to market, but to create a product that truly serves the needs of team mechanics, workshop owners, and end users,” Danie van Wyk, head of marketing at Squirt Cycling Products®, said.

“One of the goals of the development team was to formulate the hot-wax blend to be biodegradable—a significant achievement in an industry where petrochemicals are typically the norm. That environmental breakthrough is as impressive as the performance gains that Squirt Performance Hot Wax delivers. It had to be efficient, durable, exceptionally clean, and boast an extremely low break-in period. It took us three years to get there, but we believe we’ve achieved exactly that”, Jacques Holtzhausen, the head of the development team, stated.

The proprietary formula allows Squirt Performance Hot Wax to outperform Squirt’s legendary drip application Chain Lube and other hot waxes. Functional waxes, with three different-sized Hexagon-Boron-Nitride particles in the nano- and micron-sized range, a proprietary friction-modifier and anti-wear additive blend, bond to the chain. This provides an exceptionally efficient lubricant that reaches its peak efficiency almost immediately. It then maintains this efficiency for far longer than traditional drip lubricants and some other hot waxes. In-house laboratory testing with the Zero-Friction Cycling Single-Application-Test protocol has confirmed that Squirt Performance Hot Wax achieves just over 6000 kilometres in Stage 1 before reaching the 20% wear allowance. The critical 20% wear in Stage 2 with dry contaminant (sand) was reached in just under 3000km, and Stage 3 with wet contaminant (sand + water) in 450km. Anecdotal, real-world testing by Squirt Cycling Products® ambassadors all over the world reveals that in ultra-marathon off-road racing, Squirt Performance Hot Wax is effective for at least 230 to 270 kilometres. In road racing conditions, that figure increases significantly to 800 to 1000 kilometres.