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Effects of driving in the rain?

What, if any, are the bad effects of driving your bike in the rain? I'm talking other the normal rust on chain.

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Originally Posted by dannyq

What, if any, are the bad effects of driving your bike in the rain? I'm talking other the normal rust on chain.

Assuming you have proper fenders, and a decent mud flap on the front fender, that's pretty much it.

If you ride in the rain without full fenders, however, you are also likely to do nasty stuff to your headset, brakes, derailers and other moving parts.

The rain falling out of the sky is reasonably clean and relatively harmless.

The spray kicked up by your wheels, however, is contaminated with gasoline residue and all kinds of nasty grit. It really does a job on the moving parts. The gasoline residue wrecks the grease, and the grit wrecks the bearings. Also, in intermittent rain, the spray continues to drench your bike's delicate parts even between cloudbursts.

Sheldon "Fenders, Fenders, Fenders!" Brown

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Yesterday I learned that it will fill your rims with water and also your frame. I drained and dried everything today.

How can you drive a bike? :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by UmneyDurak

How can you drive a bike? :rolleyes:

AHAHA I knew somebody was going to say that, i've only been riding for a year or so now.... still call it driving the bike.

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Originally Posted by UmneyDurak

How can you drive a bike? :rolleyes:

How can you drive a car either? You drive a horse, or a herd of cattle or sheep. That's what the word originally meant.

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Originally Posted by UmneyDurak

How can you drive a bike? :rolleyes:

I store a bike in the back of my van and drive it everywhere.

To the OP, wiping your bike down after a ride in the rain should keep most bolts and the chain from rusting. If you ride in a heavy rain then the tires and frame can fill with water.