My poor bike is out in the parking lot in the pouring rain...looks like it'll rain all day. It'll be a fun drive home!
Anyone want to share tips for keeping bikey safe in rain? A cover? A tarp? Or just let it get wet.
My poor wet bike
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CNF2002
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My poor wet bike
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Re: My poor wet bike
CNF2002 wrote:My poor bike is out in the parking lot in the pouring rain...looks like it'll rain all day. It'll be a fun drive home!
Anyone want to share tips for keeping bikey safe in rain? A cover? A tarp? Or just let it get wet.
get a cover, there pretty cheap and its worth it when it rains.
what kinda bike you got?
JWF
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Re: My poor wet bike
I'm going to take a wild guess and say a 2002 Buell BlastJWF505 wrote:
what kinda bike you got?
JWF
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Re: My poor wet bike
-Holiday wrote:I'm going to take a wild guess and say a 2002 Buell BlastJWF505 wrote:
what kinda bike you got?
JWF
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Re: My poor wet bike
Just let it get wet, ride it home, and towel it off and you'll have a clean bike again. Bikes are made to operate in the rain and sitting in the rain is nothing compared to running down the interstate for hours in heavy rain.CNF2002 wrote:My poor bike is out in the parking lot in the pouring rain...looks like it'll rain all day. It'll be a fun drive home!
Anyone want to share tips for keeping bikey safe in rain? A cover? A tarp? Or just let it get wet.
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When I lived in a wetter place (Melb. Aust) I used to have a car as a back up for week ends when it was wet, cold & windy.
But for weekdays, I rode to work in the Rain (Which sucked) & parked it in an underground carpark.
Now of course I live in the Desert where it hardly rains at all & is great riding all year round.
Snow is nice to Ski on etc. but I wouldn't want to live in it.
But for weekdays, I rode to work in the Rain (Which sucked) & parked it in an underground carpark.
Now of course I live in the Desert where it hardly rains at all & is great riding all year round.
Snow is nice to Ski on etc. but I wouldn't want to live in it.
Re: My poor wet bike
That's exactly what I was going to say. I just leave mine out to get rained on with no problems. I ride it through that stuff all the time and sitting is nothing compared to riding through it.gsJack wrote:Just let it get wet, ride it home, and towel it off and you'll have a clean bike again. Bikes are made to operate in the rain and sitting in the rain is nothing compared to running down the interstate for hours in heavy rain.CNF2002 wrote:My poor bike is out in the parking lot in the pouring rain...looks like it'll rain all day. It'll be a fun drive home!
Anyone want to share tips for keeping bikey safe in rain? A cover? A tarp? Or just let it get wet.
Brian
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