One bottle for both jobs, and the cheapest per milliliter
White Lightning 2-in-1 lube and degreaser, 118 ml
A combined bike lubricant and degreaser in 118 ml that cleans and leaves a water-resistant film in one step.
What you are getting
White Lightning 2-in-1 Bike Lubricant and Degreaser, 4 fl oz (118 ml), 113 g. One bottle that cleans and lubricates in a single step. $6.96 — the cheapest thing on this page.
It is the only combined cleaner and lubricant in this group
“2-in-1 Performance: cleans and lubricates in one easy step to remove grime while leaving behind a lubricating film.”
Every other product on this page does one job. Every lubricant on this page assumes you have already degreased — the Formula 100 says so explicitly: “start with a perfectly clean chain”.
This does both, and that is both its appeal and its limit.
What a combined product gives up
A degreaser works by dissolving oil and carrying it away; a lubricant works by leaving a film behind. Those are opposite instructions for the same chemistry, and a product that does both does each less completely:
- it will not strip a chain that is already caked — the degreasers page on this site is for that
- the film it leaves is thinner than a dedicated lube’s, because the solvent fraction has to do the cleaning
So it is a maintenance product, not a restoration one: wipe and re-lube a chain that is merely dirty, rather than rescue one that has been neglected.
And the application instruction that is missing matters more here
The Formula 100 on this page tells you to clean, dry, apply to the inside rollers, wait and wipe. On a 2-in-1 that sequence collapses — there is nothing to dry, because the cleaning and the lubricating happen at once.
What the listing does not say is whether to wipe afterwards. On a product leaving “a lubricating film”, wiping removes the dissolved grime and some of the film with it, and White Lightning gives no guidance either way.
5.9 cents a milliliter, the cheapest on this page
$6.96 for 118 ml. Against the Finish Line Dry at 7.1 cents for 237 ml, the WD-40 Wet at 8.4, the Clean Ride at 8.5, the Muc-Off Bio Dry at 11.7 and the Formula 100 at 14.1.
Cheapest per milliliter, and it replaces two bottles — which makes it the cheapest way onto this shelf by a wide margin.
Water-resistant, and aimed at salt
“Leaving behind water-resistant protection that helps protect metal from rust”, and the description adds “added protection in humid or salty conditions” and “before long-term storage”.
Salt and storage are two specific cases, and both are reasonable: a chain going into a shed for the winter wants a film on it, and a bike ridden near the sea rusts for a living. Neither is a performance claim about pedalling.
Four bullets, and the brand’s own stablemate is better specified
White Lightning also sells the Clean Ride wax lube reviewed on this page, at $9.99 — oil-free, self-cleaning, and clear about its mechanism. This listing describes outcomes: reduced wear, less friction, a quieter ride, faster maintenance.
What is not published
No reapplication interval, no solvent or base identified, no VOC statement — where the WD-40 on this page is 50-state compliant — no biodegradability, and no instruction on whether to wipe. “Simple to use formula” is the fourth bullet in its entirety.
Availability
Read on the day this page was built: $7 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-06. The live price is at the top of the page.
