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Old 07-15-13 | 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by GT4
One thing I learned the hard way was leaving my bike lock in the rain (wasn't raining when I locked it). It's a carbon bike, so it wasn't as bad, but I kept riding it and then finally, weeks later, I removed the seatpost to find it was still wet and mold was growing inside the seatpost/ seat tube.

So you might want to take out the seatpost to let everything dry.
Cool!

Can't recall ever having had mold grow on any of my steel bikes... they just quietly rust

BTW framesaver can be your friend if you ride in the rain a lot.

Aaron
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