We’ve written about Leatt’s helmets, its goggles, its knee pads — the company has spent two decades building a reputation on keeping riders in one piece after a crash. We’ve never once written about what you spray on your chain. Neither, until this month, had Leatt. On October 14, 2026, the brand announced GRiTT, its first product line that has nothing to do with protection and everything to do with the stuff every rider buys over and over: chain lube, bike wash, degreaser, tubeless sealant. It’s a strange gap for a company this size to have left open for twenty years, and it’s an even stranger gap for a site that’s reviewed dozens of helmets and tires to have never covered. Time to fix both.

Quick Take

Launched	October 14, 2026
Full lineup	Bike wash, bike shine, chain lube, chain wax, degreaser, kit wash, goggle de-fogger, tubeless sealant
Core tech	Advanced Ceramic Technology + hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)
Wear claim	~70% less metal-to-metal wear (Leatt’s own testing)
Formulation	TrueBIO — biodegradable base across the range
Ceramic Chain Lube, 120ml	$15 / £13 / €15
Ceramic Chain Wax, 120ml	$17 / £15 / €17
Bike Wash (True Bio spray), 1L	$15 / £13 / €15
Bike Wash (Bio PowerFoam), 1L	$18 / £14 / €18
US pricing	Unconfirmed beyond the chain care products — “coming to the USA,” per Leatt
Distribution	ZyroFisher
Where to buy	grittbyleatt.com
Best for:	Riders already buying ceramic lube who want a biodegradable option at a competitive price
Skip if:	You want a full US price list before switching — half the range still shows no US pricing

Why a Protection Brand Is Suddenly Selling Chain Lube

Leatt’s whole identity is built on the moment things go wrong — necks, heads, knees, eyes. GRiTT is the opposite kind of product. It’s not there for the crash. It’s there every single week, on a bike that’s working fine, so that it keeps working fine. That’s a different business entirely, and a crowded one. Muc-Off, Finish Line, Stan’s, and a dozen smaller brands have owned this shelf for years.

So why now? The honest answer is probably margin and repeat purchase. A knee pad sells once every few seasons. Chain lube sells every few weeks, forever, to the same rider. If you’re a brand with Leatt’s distribution already in bike shops, adding a consumable category that customers have to keep reordering is a sound business move even if it has nothing to do with the brace that made the company’s name.

The more interesting question is whether a protection brand’s engineering actually translates to a cleaning and lubrication line. Leatt is leaning hard on one number to make that case.

What Is Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN)?

Hexagonal boron nitride is a ceramic lubricant additive made of boron and nitrogen atoms arranged in flat, slippery layers similar to graphite’s structure. In chain lube, those layers slide against each other under load, keeping metal surfaces separated even as the carrier oil thins out — which is the mechanism Leatt points to for its 70% wear-reduction claim on the GRiTT chain lube and wax.

That’s a real, established lubricant chemistry — h-BN shows up in industrial and automotive lubricants for the same reason — not a marketing-invented compound. What’s unverified is Leatt’s specific 70% figure, which comes from the brand’s own testing rather than independent lab results. Worth remembering before you repeat that number as settled fact.

The Full Lineup, Bottle by Bottle

GRiTT isn’t launching with one hero product. It’s launching with eight categories at once: bike wash, bike shine, chain lube, chain wax, degreaser, kit wash, a goggle de-fogger, and tubeless sealant, according to Bikerumor’s launch coverage and BikeBiz. That’s the same shotgun-launch pattern we saw from Race Face’s Era SL group back in August — ship everything at once, let the market sort out which parts actually stick.

Pricing so far is confirmed on the chain care and wash products:

• Ceramic Chain Lube, 120ml — $15 / £13 / €15
• Ceramic Chain Wax, 120ml — $17 / £15 / €17
• True Bio spray Bike Wash, 1L — $15 / £13 / €15
• Bio PowerFoam Bike Wash, 1L (for pressure washers) — $18 / £14 / €18

The degreaser, kit wash, goggle de-fogger, and tubeless sealant are live on the site but priced inconsistently market to market, and broader US retail pricing hadn’t been confirmed at launch. If you’re in the US and chain lube is all you’re shopping for right now, you’re covered. If you wanted the whole range priced out before committing, you’re not quite there yet.

TrueBIO: What “Biodegradable” Actually Means Here

Every product in the range runs on what Leatt calls its TrueBIO formulation — a biodegradable base rather than the petroleum-heavy solvents that make up most degreasers and bike washes. That matters more than it sounds for anyone washing a bike at home. Standard degreaser running off your driveway and into a storm drain isn’t a hypothetical problem; it’s the actual reason some trail networks and bike parks have started posting signs about where you’re allowed to rinse a bike. A biodegradable formula doesn’t make runoff disappear, but it changes what’s in it.

It’s also not a new idea — Peaty’s built its whole brand around biodegradable lube years before GRiTT existed, and plenty of degreasers already market themselves as “eco” or “bio” without much third-party verification behind the label. Leatt hasn’t published independent biodegradability test data alongside the TrueBIO name, so treat it the way you’d treat any brand’s own sustainability claim: directionally credible, not independently confirmed.

Ceramic Lube at $15: How Does That Stack Up?

This is the number that actually matters if you’re deciding whether to switch. A 120ml bottle of Muc-Off’s C3 Wet Ceramic lube — probably the closest direct competitor on the shelf — typically retails around $20 in the US. GRiTT’s Ceramic Chain Lube at $15 undercuts that by a real margin for a product making a similar ceramic-additive pitch, not a watered-down one.

Whether the GRiTT formula actually performs at that price is the part nobody outside Leatt’s own lab has tested yet. Ceramic lubes have gotten crowded enough as a category that “ceramic” alone isn’t a differentiator anymore — plenty of lubes carry the label with wildly different real-world drivetrain life. The price gap is the one number here you can verify today. The wear-reduction gap is the one you can’t, not until independent testing or enough riders put seasons on it.

Who Should Actually Try This

Riders already buying ceramic chain lube who don’t have brand loyalty to defend. At $15 for 120ml, GRiTT’s lube is priced to win on cost alone against Muc-Off and similar ceramic options, and the h-BN chemistry behind it is legitimate even if the 70% figure is unverified.

Anyone who washes bikes at home near a storm drain, a garden, or well water. A biodegradable wash and degreaser is a meaningfully different runoff story than a standard solvent-based one, even accounting for the fact that “biodegradable” is a claim and not a certification here.

Leatt loyalists who already trust the brand’s goggles or MIPS-equipped helmets. If you’ve already bought into Leatt’s protection gear, the goggle de-fogger in particular is a logical add-on purchase — same brand, same shelf, adjacent problem.

Who Should Skip It, For Now

US riders who want the full range priced before switching. Chain lube and wash are covered. The degreaser, kit wash, and tubeless sealant aren’t consistently priced in USD yet, which makes it hard to compare the whole system against what you’re already running.

Anyone who’s set on tubeless sealant with years of field data behind it. GRiTT’s sealant is brand new with zero trail history. If you’re mid-season and your current sealant — whatever’s in your tubeless setup now — is working, this isn’t the moment to gamble a ride on an unproven formula.

Riders who want independent verification before trusting a wear-reduction number. The 70% figure is Leatt’s own claim. Fair enough for a launch, but it’s not the same thing as a third-party lab result, and nobody outside Leatt has published competing data yet.

The Bottom Line

GRiTT is a sensible business move dressed up as a technology launch. The h-BN chemistry is real, the $15 chain lube undercuts the ceramic competition by a meaningful margin, and the biodegradable angle is a genuine point of difference from most of what’s on a shop shelf. What it isn’t, yet, is proven. Leatt’s 70% wear claim is unverified outside its own lab, half the lineup is still missing confirmed US pricing, and the tubeless sealant has exactly zero seasons of rider feedback behind it. If the price and the chemistry are enough to get you to try a $15 bottle of chain lube, that’s a low-risk bet. Betting your tires on the sealant before someone else has run it through a full season is a different kind of risk entirely — one worth waiting on.

This is also the first maintenance product this site has covered that isn’t a bike part at all — just the stuff that keeps the parts running. If GRiTT holds up, it won’t be the last.

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Launch details, pricing, and technical claims sourced from Leatt’s GRiTT product site, Bikerumor, BikeBiz, Pinkbike, Cycling Industry News, and BikeMag. No GRiTT product has been tested by our team at time of publication.