What do you all like to use for grease / anti-seeze when maintaining / building up bikes ?

I use Phil Wood for headsets, bottom brackets and hubs. For stuff like brake calipers and assorted smaller bolts, I use white lithium. Park also makes a good bicycle grease.

Any decent grease will work, the most important thing is to use grease on everything, any threaded surface needs grease.

I have some of the Shimano spin doctor grease it works good or Phil Wood.

I prefer the John Travolta/Olivia Newton John version

But that does`nt hold up very good in mud or water.

Thats OK, I wanna ride in the snow !

Only Phil for me...

[ December 24, 2005, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: pk ripped ]

Green waterproof Phil grease since 1980!

I'd prefer Bull*Shot, but haven't found that in years. Now it's only Phil. Phil grease and Phil Tenacious Oil.

Phil Wood since 1984!

Campagnolo made a white lithium?? grease in the eighties that was fantastic! If any one knows if that grease is still available let me know.

pretty much any moly based grease will work wonders. the moly gets into the pores of the metal and stays there. you can even wipe off the piece and it will still be lubricated because of the moly in the pores of the metal.

I just use regular automotive disc brake wheel bearing grease. It's cheap, easy to get, and has been doing the job fine for me on bicycles for years .

That Park grease works fine, but Phil Wood has way more soul power.

I started using Phil back in 1981 or so, and used it religiously up until a recent trip to the LBS. They had no Phil, so I bought the Park grease instead. I must say it also works very well.

i've been partial to the Finish Line grease, lately. or shimano dura-ace. if i need something real thick/sticky i use "rock 'n roll red devil".

i have mixed feelings about Phil Wood. it has never seemed to hold up in hot weather, for me. i go out on a day that is in the upper 80s/90s and i always end up with grease running out of any part that had Phil grease in it.

Industrial stuff has so many more options, and high quality products to choose from. Synthetic technology is so far superior to anything Old School that they can't even be measured, or rated, on the same scales. What used to be the lubricant, is only used as a thickener in modern greases. (Lithium)

Dow Corning DC-33 is awesome for headsets, brakes, wheels, BB's ....It comes in Thin, and Medium. And works between -100F and +400F. For VERY low friction applications. Need to change it more, because it is thiner, and can wash out easier.
SAFE NON-TOXIC...etc, etc..

Appearance Pink
Base Oil PhenylMethyl Silicone
Thickener Lithium
Service Temperature [C] -73 to +180
Dropping Point [C] 226
Worked Penetration (mm/10) 280
Load carrying capacity (4 ball weld, N)

I also like Mobil 1 Grease for Bottom brackets, and wheels, that will be rode hard and put away wet. Thicker. Synthetic. Water Proof. Huge load carrying numbers, and corrosion protection, loads not seen on Bicycles or their lubricants such as Phil Grease, etc...

Nothing beats modern synthetics, categorically. Step up to the 21st century...Too many great ones out there to waste time finding old tech vintage stuff IMO... Cars go 300,000 miles now....primarily because of new lubricants....

SWEPCO grease rules! I use it on my race car, race motorcycles and bikes. It is relativly inexpensive and it's bullet proof. Ask any Porsche mechanic and he/she will tell you what they use on CV joints, they will say Swepco.

Dynosoar

Thanks for the fresh opinions, always open to new products. I promise not to ask about the quality of air you are all running in your tubes !

Well, since you brought it up....Hot air is always best.....Plenty of that around here....lol

Though many around here are still looking for "Era Correct" air, I never thought to bottle some up each year....It would have been a big seller around here...I could have been rich.

"For Sale"....Genuine 1980 Hutch air, from the Hutch factory air compressors! Only $100 dollars a can!

20/20 hindsight!
lol

Allright! Another Swepco Fan!
But for the bikes, I pretty much use Motorex.

AIR-- LOL thats funny. Who runs air in their tires in the 21st century. Nitrogen is the only way to go.

Dynosoar

Where can you buy the swepco grease?

I run Nitrogen as well. roughly 80% Nitrogen, 20% Oxygen.

Oxygen has no detrimental effects on rubber inner tubes. Magnesium Rims on Jet Airliners that have brakes that heat up to 400C, yes. Rubber bicycle inner tube.......lmao.

Do you really waste your money on aviation grade nitrogen for a rubber bicycle inner tube? Or are you just messin' around with us!?

Now That is Funny!!!!!!! lol

i like bull shot it was really nice but if you are running any lose ball hubs and the rases inside the hubs are a little on the pitted side use simi crome polish in your grease use more of the polish then grease it will smoth out the pits in the hubs use simi crome polish in all my campys to brake them in for a week or 2 then take them apart and put reguler grease back in then clean all the polish out of the hubs then they will ride so nice plus it polishes your Balls lol

WOW,thats a long sentance!!!!!

Why not polish the races to a mirror with a Dremel and a plastic Q-tip cut in half, with your semi-chrome, before you assemble them?

Then you only have to grease them once, and the whole race gets polished......

I think every bike should use the best synthetic grease available. This is crucial if you wish to race it over 300,000 miles.

lol

Synthetic stores well too..... Prevents moisture from getting in the grease, and making pits in the races ,where the bearings are contacting the races, and not ever moving. Dissimilar metal corrosion etc...

Corrosion prevention is one of the most important characteristics in grease when the bike might not get greased for 30 more years....

Old fashioned greases can often hold moisture in them. Not good for storing show bikes.

It's not like it is cost prohibitive....

Still humerous though...!

I bet my old bike had about 300,000 miles on it...lol

You guys have made me feel so unprofessional now since I don't use grease made especially for bikes.

I just use what I use on my cars; Mobil 1 synthetic. Nice and gooey!

is phil wood headset grease easy to find still? im in l.a......or should i just buy the one on ebay right now....ha. thanks. i always used that thick auto grease as a kid which probably just pulled dirt onto the ball bearings.

My bike shop stocks it as a regular item, along with Phil Tenacious Oil...

You know Phil, he gets around. He's a slippery character.