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- Oct 18, 2016 at 22:06Oct 18, 2016
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Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Always something.. I've gone hike a bike dh'ing a handful of times because I was fed up with broken derailleurs holding me back. Ridden bikes with improper eyelet sizing on the shock hardware because I was to pissed to wait a week for parts. Ridden on bald tires, failing brakes, clapped suspension. Better than nothing at all. But as time goes on I'm learning to be more patient and anticipate the various failures of my bike lol.
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Is New England (or maybe just Connecticut) the only place where people consider riding after it rains less ethical than clubbing a baby seal because you ran out of toilet paper? I swear if you posted that on Facebook here you'd catch a shit hurricane that would leave brown stains like permanent marker.
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I read about how riding after rain is terrible all the time, but even the guys doing the trail work are out there after a decent rainstorm. I'm in RI btw
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Where I was from originally (southern Ontario Canada) yes it's a crime to ride in or after rain! But now I'm in the north west of Canada (whitehorse yukon) and if you can't ride a wet trail your useless. The terrain here is sand, loam, roots and rocks. So when it rains your not wrecking anything, you just have to get better at riding your bike like everyone else.
Not a whole lot of changes now though... There is always SOMETHING. I couldn't help the rider inside me look at the graphic and scream; " who cares ride the old rear sus, no biggie, just brap, it's just siez-oned ... " But it's raining. And I can think of many times deciding to get work done since the weather is slightly crap "so how great could the ride be anyways" only to realize the work you did resurrected a whole host of issues that pretty much render the bike unrideable. That's when you find yourself browsing CRC, LAMA and Jenson so that a week from then the courier fairy can bring sweet redemption in the form of hardware... If your lucky that it all fits and works the way you intended.
Since those years, I simply invest in newer rides and bank on a lower failure rate. Even then... There is always SOMETHING. You just have to do it. Even if you're supposed to be at work in 2 hrs.