Motor oil shouldn't have teflon in it. Established already. How expensive are these chains? It seems like excessive burden for the slight wear difference, like a nutty thing that someone suggested without a lot of analysis.
I wouldn't even bother with paraffin, unless you put on a lot of miles in a gritty environment. Just sayin', road riding here is where a lot of miles would be put on and it's not gritty. Off-road, I've done that more and not so many miles because the terrain limits that. I suppose someone commuting on an e-bike would be a different story, but I don't.
It just seems like a lot of marketing or social media influence unless the chain is made out of exotic materials, versus the burden you're facing.
A lot of cyclist snobs would try to feel superior with their chain regimen, but I've had a very good cost/labor/chain-cost trade off doing something very simple.
I have a tub, and put a gasoline/grease mix in it. I run the chain through it, agitating it a bit, and a toothbrush to get off solid particles. Remove chain, and gasoline evaporates away, leaving the grease. Solid particles settle out and I can pour off the gas/grease mix and reuse that. Plus the gas/grease mix is useful for other cleaning parts purposes besides bicycles. If the chain wears a little bit more, I don't care, labor and time saved greatly trumps chain lifespan versus replacement cost difference.
We may have a different situation, but I have never realized a reason to change my ways... It is absurd to me to use special bicycle chain lubes unless a specific scenario like off-road use in very sandy environments, or else it's some exotic bike where there was much snake oil advertised about how extra-special a chain was that duped the buyer into paying an extreme amount, so they are trying to protect their faux investment.
had to be early 90's in a Chevy S10 Blazer with an engine that was not in the best shape. Slick-50 was useless garbage but the marketing made you believe there was magic in that there bottle!
