Originally Posted by FBinNY

I disagree with the current thinking and obsessive concern about rain. I have logged countless miles in the rain, and NEVER done anything special about it. My old road bike had about 50,000 miles on it before I retired it, and was ridden in the rain regularly, even including being submerged a few times.

The bike had classics open cup/con bearings, which I serviced annually, and never in between. This bike saw so much water, that it had a high water rust line in the BB shell, yet I never had to replace a single cup or cone, save for headsets which died from fretting, not rust.