I'm thinking about the 'cross season.
Last year was really wet and several of the races were in thick sticky clumping mud.
The Cross-in-the-park in buffalo saw at least 20-30 broken derailleurs. You had to run much of the course. Your wheels would pack with mud and had to be cleared so they would spin.
For these conditions would anyone do anything different?
Larger tires (eg knards) - but that reduces clearance..
How do you prevent your rear derailleur from gunking up , getting sucked into the cogs and breaking?
I coated everything with Pam and was reduced to a single gear but didn't break the derailleur by luck.
Any thing else?
Dave
Last year was really wet and several of the races were in thick sticky clumping mud.
The Cross-in-the-park in buffalo saw at least 20-30 broken derailleurs. You had to run much of the course. Your wheels would pack with mud and had to be cleared so they would spin.
For these conditions would anyone do anything different?
Larger tires (eg knards) - but that reduces clearance..
How do you prevent your rear derailleur from gunking up , getting sucked into the cogs and breaking?
I coated everything with Pam and was reduced to a single gear but didn't break the derailleur by luck.
Any thing else?
Dave