Originally Posted by supcom
Down here is Texas it's a written rule (
www.dorba.org) that you DO NOT ride muddy trails. We don't ride 'em 'till they're tacky. At least those of us responsible riders don't. With our clay soil, you really can't ride muddy trails anyway. At least not unless you like to carry your bike 50 feet back to the parking lot and spend an hour cleaning the mud off before it turns to concrete!
Lots of clay around here, too. A lot of times it looks dry/slightly damp when it's really saturated and you wind up with so much accumulation that you can't even pedal any more. That's the main reason I try not to ride when it's wet since the equestrians/four-wheeler riders don't seem to give a damn about widening the trails, and I'm pretty sure we do less damage than they do....