Best bike cleaners 2025: Sprays, foams and kits for quick bike cleaning

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Best bike cleaners 2025: Sprays, foams and kits for quick bike cleaning

Keeping your bike clean is probably one of the most effective ways to keep it running smoothly and efficiently. Not only does removing dirt and grime help to reduce friction, but it can also prolong the life of replaceable parts, such as your chain and cassette.

In effect, you’ll be able to ride faster, save a bit of cash, and look good while doing it too.

With the right tools at hand, a good setup and a bit of spare time, cleaning your bike and cleaning your chain can become a satisfying, mindful experience, and can also help you diagnose potential issues earlier, for example tyre wear or punctures.

In this guide we’ve pulled together the best bike cleaners on the market today, with a range of options at all price points and with a few different applications, as well as a few handy tips to help you choose the best bike cleaner for you.

Cyclist’s pick of the best bike cleaners

Our selection of the best bike cleaners on the market:

How do we test and why trust our advice?

Whether it’s getting our review rigs photoshoot-ready or cleaning our own collections, we’ve scrubbed and polished a fair few bikes between us over the years here at Cyclist.

With the right equipment and cleaning products at hand bike cleaning need not be a chore, and is an essential part of your maintenance routine, keeping your bike running optimally and preventing the acceleration of component wear.

We’ve rounded up our pick of the best bike cleaners in this guide, based on our combined years of experience, with something for every budget.

Best bike cleaner sprays, foams and concentrates 2025

Read on for our picks or scroll down for more advice on how to choose the best bike cleaner for you.

CeramicSpeed UFO Bike Wash

£19.99 | View offer

Premium foaming bike wash in spray bottle
Non-toxic, PFAS-free and biodegradable

When you’ve spent out a pretty penny for your dream bike, it deserves only the best to keep it looking and functioning immaculately. If you’re willing to invest more than your average bike cleaner, this UFO Bike Wash from CeramicSpeed is a powerful yet eco-friendly bike wash that’s as effective as it is easy to use.

The 500ml bottle features a robust spray top and offers around 30 washes when 3-4 sprays of the solution are sprayed into a brush as directed.

After rinsing off your bike, CeramicSpeed suggests wiping down the frame, metal surfaces, wheels and tyres with the brush, and leaving the bike covered in the foam solution for 3-5 minutes before rinsing and wiping down.

For bottle refills, CeramicSpeed supplies a 125ml concentrate that can be added to the bottle and topped up with 250ml water, so you’ll need two refills per spray bottle. It’s still not cheap, but you’ll save a little on using this method, not to mention the plastic of the spray bottle.

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Morgan Blue Bio Bike Cleaner Bike Wash

£12.99 | View offer

Belgian 1L/5L pre-mixed bike cleaner for frame, wheels and chainset
Biodegradable formula

There’s a good reason that Morgan Blue has been around for over thirty years. For no-nonsense cleaning, pick up a litre bottle of Morgan Blue Bio Bike Cleaner. The solution is ready-mixed, and supplied with a spray nozzle attachment, or in a bulk 5L container.

After rinsing down the bike, wash the frame, chain and derailleur with Bio Bike Cleaner and wait two minutes before rinsing the cleaner off. Unless you need a really deep clean, you can leave the separate degreaser on the shelf.

Morgan Blue is a trusted supplier of many pro cycling teams, including Lidl-Trek, Canyon-SRAM, Soudal-QuickStep and the Belgian national team.

Peaty’s Complete Bicycle Cleaning Kit

£89.99 | View offer

Cleaning case with brushes, bike cleaner, degreaser, chain lube and a microfibre cloth
Loam Foam bike cleaner in 1L ready-mixed formula
Biodegradable and minty fresh

If you’re just getting kitted out with your bike cleaning equipment, then it can also pay to opt for a bike cleaning kit, like this Complete Bicycle Cleaning Kit from Peaty’s.

Founded by a legend of British mountain biking, Peaty’s cleaning products may have been born out of the MTB World Cup circuit but they’re great for use on road and gravel bikes too.

As well as the 1L spray bottle of Loam Foam Bike Cleaner (usually £11.99), there’s also a spray chain degreaser, chain lube, soft brush, drivetrain brush, microfibre cloth and handy case for keeping it all in. Peaty’s brushes are especially nice, made with beech wood handles rather than plastic.

The Loam Foam is, as the name suggests, a foaming bike cleaner with a trigger nozzle that can be used with either spray or foam mode. The formula is tough on dirt but still safe for use on all parts of the bike.

Once you’ve finished the bottle, you can top up with Loam Foam Concentrate (£24.99 for 1L), which makes 5L of Loam Foam formula while saving 80% of the plastic requirement, and £34.96 compared to buying five ready-made bottles individually.

Muc-Off Punk Powder Refills

£27 | View offer

Four plastic-free refill sachets make 4L Nano Tech Cleaner when combined with water
94% reduction in packaging
Use with an empty Nano Tech Cleaner bottle or an aluminium Bottle For Life

If you do a lot of bike cleaning and are concerned about the amount of plastic waste that you’re producing, Muc-Off’s new Punk Powder Refills system could be just the ticket.

Muc-Off is a household name on the bike cleaning scene, so it’s great to see it innovate and develop new tech to help us minimise our environmental impact. The Punk Powder Refills are small gel-sized sachets of 30g each, which are combined with water in a spray bottle to make one litre of the brand’s well-known pink Nano Tech Cleaner each.

The four sachets are supplied in a cardboard box (which also doubles up as a funnel) and the sachets themselves are plastic-free and compostable. You can either use the sachets in an old Nano Tech Cleaner bottle, or invest in an aluminium Bottle For Life Bundle (£42.50), which also includes two refill sachets.

If you’re looking for something you can simply grab and go, Muc-Off’s Nano Tech Cleaner is also supplied ready-mixed with water in a spray bottle for £12.

Fenwick’s Bike Cleaner

£9 | View offer

Fantastic value general bike cleaner
Safe to use on disc brakes
Biodegradable, environmentally-friendly formula

This bike cleaner from British brand Fenwick’s dates back to 1996, originally called ‘Hog Wash’. While the formula has changed over the years, it’s still designed to be effective at cleaning, without causing damage to either the bike or the environment.

Fenwick’s claims that it’s safe to use the Bike Cleaner all over your bike, including on your disc brakes, as long as you’re careful not to contaminate your rotors with grease and dirt.

Once you’ve finished your one litre bottle, you can top up using Fenwick’s Concentrated Bike Cleaner (£15 for 1L or £60 for 5L) to save some plastic as well as some cash.

At £9 for 1L ready mixed, the Fenwick’s Bike Cleaner is great value for a quality product.

Decathlon Bike Cleaner

£9.99 | View offer

Ready to use spray formula for use on all parts
1L spray bottle can be refilled with concentrated formula

Decathlon’s Bike Cleaner comes ready-mixed in a 1L spray bottle and is bright green in appearance, much like a well-known washing up liquid.

While Decathlon suggests that the 1L bottle will only last for eight uses (perhaps unlikely at 125ml per bike wash), the bottle can be topped up with its Concentrated Bike Cleaner (£7.49). This concentrate comes in a 500ml bottle, and lasts for 12 uses, according to Decathlon.

The Decathlon Bike Cleaner is safe for use on all parts, though Decathlon does recommend degreasing your chain first with a separate degreaser. The bike cleaner does need to be rinsed off your bike with water after cleaning, but promises to leave a streak-free finish.

GTechniq Bike Clean

£12.95 | View offer

Multipurpose bike cleaner using surfactants and natural citrus oils
Biodegradable

GTechniq may have only landed on the bike scene in 2022, but its expertise comes straight over from extensive work in the automotive and sailing industries, where its products boast a fine reputation for top-tier performance and finish protection.

With natural citrus oils to aid the action of the surfactants, the ready-to-use bike wash has a fresh aroma as you spray it directly onto a rinsed bike. You’re then directed to leave the solution to do its work for 3-5 minutes (perfect time to make a cuppa) before washing the bike with a brush and rinsing and drying to finish.

Once you’ve finished the first spray bottle, consider topping back up using Bike Clean Concentrate (£13.95 for 500ml), which makes 3L Bike Clean.

For the ultimate clean, consider treating your frame to the GTechniq Ceramic Quick Coat (£19.50 for 500ml). This formula contains silicone dioxide nanotechnology, forming a bond with your frame which repels dirt and grime for up to 6 months.

Weldtite Snow Foam Bike Cleaner

£10.49 | View offer

500ml foaming aerosol-based bike cleaner
For use on bike frames, bars, wheels and pedals

Love a bit of theatre when it comes to bike cleaning? I certainly do, and to help you see where you have and haven’t already scrubbed, a foaming bike cleaner like the Weldtite Snow Foam Bike Cleaner is a great choice.

No pre-rinse necessary; simply spray the Snow Foam all over the frame, wheels, bars and pedals and wait a minute before scrubbing. Weldtite claims that you can do a waterless wash, though I’d be more sceptical about getting all the grime off the bike without water, especially after a winter gravel ride.

The Snow Foam is also disc brake and carbon safe, according to Weldtite, though it does offer specific cleaning products for disc brake rotors.

For your chain and cassette, reach for the Weldtite Thunder Foam (£10.99), which is a foaming chain degreaser with the same action, though with a citrus scent rather than the Snow Foam’s candy floss.

BBB Bio Super Wash Bike Shampoo

£9.99 | View offer

Highly concentrated cleaning formula to make 100L bike wash
Natural wax for paint protection
Biodegradable and produced in carbon neutral facilities

For excellent value, pick up a bottle of concentrated BBB Bio Super Wash Bike Shampoo. You only need to add 10ml to every litre of water, so in theory one £10 bottle should last you for up to 100 wash cycles, depending on how much water you pop in your bucket.

As the formula contains natural wax for frame protection, it’s recommended for use on frame and wheels only. Check out the BBB BioDrivetrain cleaner for your chain, chainrings and cassette, and make sure you don’t get the shampoo on your disc rotors.

BBB takes great pride in minimising its environmental footprint, with a product that is biodegradable within 28 days as well as using carbon-neutral manufacturing facilities. Of course, buying a concentrated product also means less plastic packaging requirement, and more efficient transport without the water.

If you’d rather buy a bike wash that’s ready to use, then opt for the BBB Bio Ready Wash Bike Shampoo Trigger Bottle, which retails at £7.99 for 500ml of ready-mixed formula.

Bike cleaners: how to choose

What different types of bike cleaner are there?

Most bike cleaners are supplied in a ready-to-use diluted formula and spray bottle, which can be applied to a pre-rinsed bike and then washed off with more water after scrubbing.

You can also buy bike cleaner concentrate, which you can either use to refill spray bottles, or add to a small bucket of water. This can be a more wallet-friendly way to purchase bike cleaner, as well as use less plastic packaging.

You can also get foaming bike washes, either for direct use from an aerosol onto the bike, or for use in conjunction with a pressure washer (such as the Muc-Off Snow Foam).

What’s the difference between bike cleaner and degreaser?

Most brands recommend a separate degreaser for cleaning the chain, chainrings and cassette.

While a bike cleaner is designed to tackle the frame, wheels, tyres, and cockpit area, a degreaser is designed to clean the drivetrain, which often requires more powerful cleaning to rid the area of grease and stubborn dirt.

Some degreasers can be really strong, so a pair of rubber gloves aren’t the worst idea to protect your hands from the chemicals – not to mention black grease!

You’ll also need to be careful with how liberal you are with the degreaser. There are parts of the bike that rely on grease to function optimally which you don’t want to wash out, and you must be careful when scrubbing your cassette and chain not to transfer degreaser and grime onto your brake rotors if you’re running a disc brake setup.

Once you’ve fully degreased your chain, check out our guide to the best c hain lubes.

Can I use bike cleaner on my disc brakes?

While some manufacturers claim that their bike cleaning formulas are disc brake safe, I’d avoid washing rotors with bike cleaner, just to avoid any potential contamination from other parts of your bike such as the drivetrain.

Instead, opt for disc brake specific cleaners, or a wipe with a clean cloth and IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol).