I’ve just used the aerosol cans and one will do 3 or 4 bikes if you don’t go crazy. For bikes that are stored over the winter I do the lot, brakes and all, but obviously not on the ones I’m using. It comes off easily enough after six months or so with hot water and detergent - but leave it a year or more (as I have with a couple of project bikes) and it ‘dries’ into a kind of thin waxy coating. That’s a bit harder to get off.
For winter use it’s about as good as it gets but enough road spray + salt will get through so you’ll need to reapply it every now and again to the areas that are exposed (all the awkward to get to bits!).
As others have said, heat the can up if you’re using an aerosol. It doesn’t really come out as a even spray - like paint - but dribbles out like paint with a half blocked nozzle. Sometimes it’s easier to spray it onto a paint brush and use that to paint it into corners, or onto a rag for paintwork.
I was a bit apprehensive at first slapping it onto expensive paintwork or spraying it onto electrical bits but in eight or nine years of using it I’ve never had a problem. Good stuff for winter biking.
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