This time of year shouldn’t be too hard on the commuter bicycle, but unseasonable rain means wheels are kicking muck from wet roads. Luckily we’re here to offer a helping hand with this bike cleaning kit from Green Oil.
Road grime and mud contribute to the wear and tear of drivetrain and other systems on your bike so cleaning is an important ritual. It’s also a great opportunity to inspect your bike closely for signs of wear or damage. Helping to ensure that bike cleaning remains as environmentally benign as possible is Green Oil, a British company that claims to make the world’s greenest bicycle maintenance products.
Green Oil has been fighting the use of carcinogenic PTFE and petrochemical pollution and the harm they can do in a workshop environment, in your garage, and to the rivers and seas for over a decade. The company uses recycled (not just recyclable) plastic in its bottles and plant-based fully biodegradable formulas.
Included in the bumper cleaning kit that we are giving away are two bottles of Green Oil Wet Chain Lube, two bike armour anti-rub plates, eco bike cleaner, degreaser jelly, an EcoRag cleaning cloth, Ecogrease and an FSC certified bicycle brush. The packaging tub includes a seed pack so you can use it to grow your own vegetables when you are finished with the cleaning products.
To enter the draw to win the £85 cleaning kit, simply leave a comment at the bottom of the page and we’ll pick a name at random next week.
The ethical choice
The ETA was established in 1990 as an ethical provider of green, reliable travel services. Over 30 years on, we continue to offer cycle insurance , breakdown cover and mobility scooter insurance while putting concern for the environment at the heart of all we do.
The Good Shopping Guide judges us to be the UK’s most ethical provider.
Darren C
What a fantastic prize! This makes cycling even more environmentally friendly, keeping your bike clean helps the environment too as the parts don’t wear as quickly, so not only will you save money but waste too.
John Reed
Yes please. I love my bike to look shiney shiney all the time. This will help keep it looking so.
Jonathan Hunt
Eco cleaning for a shiny bike? Yes please.
Nick Weeks
I’d love one, especially as I’m a Green Party activist. Not sure about the chain oil, though (I’d probably put it on Freecycle) as my bike is shaft drive!
Dave A
But I don’t want a green bike mine’s red…
Rebecca Nestor
Ooh me me please! I do these ETA marketing things a lot and have never won anything yet. And I have just taken delivery of a lovely new bike so please help me to keep it clean!
David Curran
My mucky wife needs one of these (for her bike). Only clean thoughts please!
Damian Connaughton
Love to keep my bike shiny and clean, and making it eco-friendly is a real plus!
Peter Soper
Clean and green, so good to be seen.
Charles H
Clean bike, clean conscience. Perfect.
Doug M
Just what my bike needs. This kit would encourage me to clean it more often!
sara garside
Now that’s something really worth having. Please could you put my name in the hat. Thanks very much.
Mike the bike
A well cleaned, well oiled bike make pedalling a lot easier and this Green Oil gear appears just what’s wanted.
Matthew Newell
Got to love a clean bike.
Bryn Gwyndaf Jones
How absolutely gorgeous!
James Craven
Ethically clean. Great idea.
David
It’s a good time of year to give my bike a spruce up.
Paul Hubert
It’s too easy to neglect this job, and be put off by products that are powerful at the expense of their environmental impact. So this looks like an appealing way to get to grips with routine cleaning.
Simon Tozer
I’d love this, looks brilliant.
Peter Clark
I’d really be cleaning up if I won this one…
…I’ll get my coat
Andrew Miller
The best prize you’ve done for ages – awesome! As I live in the country my bike is always muddy – the roads are dusty when they aren’t wet and muddy and keeping the bike clean is an endless task that frequently defeats me!
But having more environmentally friendly cleaning gear that is kinder to the planet would definitely inspire me to keep it clean.
Mark Norman
Green oil products are great! Fantastic eco-friendly credentials and work really well too.
Mark B
Goodbye dirty bike! Yes please!
Peter Chisnall
Sparkling!
Andy Brown
I’d ike to make a clean getaway with one of these!
Andy Brown
I’d like to make a clean getaway with one of these!
David
This would be fantastic to help keep my bright green bike shiny and clean!
Huw Thomas
An environmentally clean bike, Sounds good!
james
Great product to help keep clean and friendly to planet
Steve Green
Just the job!
Phil
Tidy
David Hamilton
My bike would would certainly appreciate this prize.
Tom
Eco friendly bike stuff. What’s not to like.
Richard
Yes please
Gordon May
Yes please
Debbie L
Yeah for a clean and environmentally friendly cleaner. 😀
Sarah S-J
I realised every time I got on my bike this week that I hadn’t cleaned it from the weekend and it is mud-dy. Winning this will remind and motivate me to clean it!
Cheryl
I’m always looking for ways to make positive sustainable choices, and this looks a good one.
John Fletcher
What a great idea! It’s too easy for me to feel smugly green just for using my bike instead of the car. Cleaning products “just disappear” into my gravel drive. Except that they don’t…
Greg
By bike is in need
Of very good clean
please help me achieve
The style that I need
And send me the kit
So my rig is fit
Vincent Procter
Oh shinny. It’ll be like new without poisoning the planet.
Claudina Caaveiro
A brilliant prize! I wasn’t aware of Green Oil and their products so thank you for shining a light on what they do. Such an innovative approach to environmentally friendly cleaning products. Particularly like the inclusion of seeds!
Pat Hagen
I need this kit as my bike gets so muddy
PeteG
I do like a clean pair of wheels. This kit looks like it will deliver!
Craig
Having the right kit like this would encourage anyone to spend more time cleaning their bicycles. Lovely prize!
Sue B
This would be a great help, its surprising how dirty my bike gets sitting in the garage even before I get to sit on it!
Sue B
This kit would be a great help, its surprising how dirty my bike just sitting in the garage before I even get to sit on it!
Ema
Wow, my bike needs a clean and products which are better for the environment are a massive plus.
Fred
My machine is quiet and clean
Penny Price
My bike would love to have some TLC from this kit!
Whobiggs
Hi
Les Gunbie
Nice kit, yes please …
Andrew Garside
Used these products before so would not complain on winning this package