Our best chain wax awards is the accompanying piece to our chain lube winners all of which are taken from our best bike chain lube and best bike wax buyers’ guides.
Hot waxing, waxing, or immersive waxing (whatever term you want to use) offers fantastic contamination protection and resistance, lengthens chain life dramatically, keeps drivetrains spotless and offers very low drag. Sound perfect? That’s because it pretty much is, and in dry conditions the wax will pretty much always come out on top. As such, any product from amongst our winners is amongst the top-performing chain coatings anywhere. Any of the below products will provide excellent performance, but it was my job to try and categorise them somehow.
After some initial setup effort, living with wax is easy and we don’t think it’s the faffy process it’s sometimes made out to be. Try it, if you are interested in some extra drivetrain gains.
There are fewer wax products on the market generally so there is a smaller product pool to select from at present. Like our chain lubricant guide, waxes have been applied and tested and also referenced against Zero Friction independent testing and results.
The Winners
Best Overall
Silca Secret Chain Wax takes the best overall spot from our waxes. The Silca Wax pellets come in a boil-in-the-bag pouch, which means you don’t need to go the whole hog and get a slow cooker to wax your chain with it, just pop your chain in the bag and place it in hot water. This could make for an easier introduction to waxing if you want to give things a try.
The wax also contains nano-scale tungsten disulfide, an extremely slippery component which, according to Zero Friction, results in a wax that is around 1 watt faster than Molten Speed Wax. For most of us this isn’t going to make a different but it’s still an advantage.
Secret Chain wax is also compatible with Silca Super Secret drip lube meaning you can extend re-waxing intervals and use the two products together in Silca’s wax system. Like all the waxes here, you will need to ensure your chain is…
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