Does the "other Rohloff oil, the cheap one" have amazing potential?

[Andre Jute]

Here's an amazing cycling factoid: Rohloff also makes a cheap oil! It's the Rohloff Chain Oil, which comes in a small bottle for about a fiver*, and for that much lasts virtually forever because you use only a couple of drops per application. This oil has remarkable spreading and self-insertion capabilities, and sticks like the proverbial to the baby blanket. It would be hell to get it off a chain if you wanted to switch to another lube. It rejects water, for sure; you can see it rejecting water.

So I'm wondering if this amazing chain oil won't also do for many other functions arounds a bike for which grease is normally prescribed. Opinions?

*Price when, in consideration of the size of the bottle, I ordered six bottles to be delivered with my bike, c2008. I still have three and a half bottles left after giving away two bottles and using half of one over a period of several years until I started running my chains for their entire life on the factory lube inside a Hebie Chainglider.

[WorldTourer]

When Rohloff’s biggest market, Central European commuters, are gradually taking up belt drives, I wonder how much longer Rohloff will continue to produce it’s own chain oil.

[PH]

When Rohloff’s biggest market, Central European commuters, are gradually taking up belt drives, I wonder how much longer Rohloff will continue to produce it’s own chain oil.

It's an oil for chains, rather than specifically an oil for chains on Rohloff bikes, I think it pre dates the hub, back to the time Rohloff were chain manufacturers.  The Oil has a good reputation, I've never used it, I have a preference for biodegradable oils, not particularly for environmental reasons, but because I keep my bike indoors and it's easier to wash off the carpet.