How To Ride In The Rain. (And Not Die.) 

What oils or additives do you use in your wax. Because a normal wax chain will rust in the rain. Had a customer who thought a wax chain worked in the wet… he was surprised when it went orange! 😂 Also a wax chain only lasts 300km before needing a re-wax. So did you not ride much that winter? 🙂

@@reginaldscot165 I don’t know where the 300 mile re-wax number comes from. I have seen it on forums and such, but I’m guessing that’s for plain paraffin home brew formulations. Zero Friction Cycling tests for the product I use, Rex Black Diamond with a 2/8 “black block” (the additives) to “white wax block ” ratio, show a ~1700 km reapplication frequency (dry conditions), which I have been able to exceed by a factor of two by simply wiping my chain with a damp cloth after wet rides. I’ve never seen rust, but I do use a SRAM Red chain, which is chromed for wear resistance, and I don’t live in an environment with a lot of salt, i.e., is I live far from the sea and the monsoons you have to deal with. I ride a minimum of 190 miles a week, every single day no matter how hard it’s raining. Winters in the part of California where I live are cold and the rain is very light compared to the tropics-I grew up in Guam, so I know the difference - maybe it’s the environmental conditions that make waxing work so well where I live. I also only have four months of data since I started waxing around the start of this winter.

@reginaldscot165 A chain lubricated by any of the different lubes available will need topping up after rain. Waxed chains are no alone in this. I used other types for over 40 years, as an all-season cyclist .

Great comment and I agree. 🙂👍🏻

I ride year round 5 days a week to work and it rains quite a bit in the winter in Oregon. Chain Wax. That's where it's at.

Me too. Sorry 😞 I’m still working on it. 🙏🏻

You are very welcome! 🙂👍🏻

Glad it was helpful. 🙂 All the best!

Thank you also! Ride safe! 👍🏻🙂

Great comment and good tip. 🙂👍🏻

Thank you. Yes the rain in Phil is frightening! 🫣

Thank you! That was the hope of the video. Yes give them a try, they should improve your life in the wet. 🙂

Ah well that’s probably because I’ve never see a new painted line anywhere I have lived. And that says something about the quality of road maintenance. 😂

@@reginaldscot165 we are lucky to have decent road maintenance here in southern Indiana, but it brings up another risk--newly repaved roads. They tend to be quite slick in the rain due to the oils in the new asphalt. The dark black asphalt is also quite hot when the temperature goes way up! (but I still love fresh asphalt!)

The best aluminium wheels on the market! 👍🏻 I have the PR1400s without the Oxic. Still excellent wheels, but not as good in the wet.

Thank you! Excellent, I hope you like them. 🙂👍🏻

Interesting. I will try to make it in the next 3 videos, I have 1 or 2 I need to finish first. 😁

Thank you! Yes a lot of it is common sense and experience. It’s definitely helpful for newer riders. Your system sounds good. All the best and safe riding! 👍🏻🙂

Interesting, try some frameless cycling glasses. I only have solid plastic across the top of my glasses and as a result there is no negative impact on my vision. I was always riding in heavy UK traffic, it’s frightening sometimes but strangely I miss it. 😂

Cool, I have never been to New Zealand, I have been to Old Zealand. 🙂 Looking at photos the place seems very green so I imagine you get a lot of rain? 😁

Yeah, definitely. My home city Dunedin gets a tonne, sometimes even minor flooding occurs. I could get annoyed with it, but the huge upside is the extremely healthy forests and bush all around us. Mountain biking is the most popular type of cycling because of that. I'm an urban cyclist in Wellington, but when I'm offered a MTB session, I never refuse.

That’s a good point. 🤔 🙂

Glasses never, gloves always. Top Gun went over my head.

@@peterwillson1355 😀

I used to wear gloves but frankly stopped when the couple pair I had wore out rather quickly. Plenty of other places to spend that money. I like to tell myself that while gloves will prevent superficial wounds, not instinctively reaching out with your hands will also prevent broken bones, etc. I do like to wear sun sleeves in warm weather to avoid getting overly sweaty, slippery hands.

Both for me. I don’t like gravel under my skin. 😉

I’m surprised that works. Cool. 🙂👍🏻

@@reginaldscot165 I suppose it might be less effective in a hot and humid country like Brunei though.

Agreed! Yes the rain here is indeed warm. Especially the splashing of passing cars, because it’s heated up by the road. 😍

Agreed caps are very useful. 👍🏻🙂

Great advice 👍🏻🙂

Sounds like you were ready for anything. 😁

@@reginaldscot165 Exactly. When it's pissing it down, you can't be stopping for too long if it's cold. It's a bit different where you are I guess. If commuting with a backpack anyway, there's no real downside to just adding these conveniences.

Great comment anyway, thanks for the information. 👍🏻🙂

Oh I don’t know if I can clean it every time, but yes that would be good. 🙂

Maybe 🤔 but I did test 2 TPU tubes on a mountain descent in Malaysia. One was a self adhesive patch and the other was the correct glue patch and there were both fine. 🙂👍🏻

@@reginaldscot165 Thanks as always

It’s more about using all the road space and not over turning the bar. 👍🏻🙂

Hi and thanks! Yes people have disc here, but no mountains so hot discs is not a problem. Also all the boys with discs only ride on the highway where there is no stopping. So no braking. 😁 The pads still wear out however, maybe because of the dust here?

Yes that can be good advice, the key is knowing when to be on a different part of the road. 🙂👍🏻

Just in my 3 rear pockets. My tools are very small and light. 😎

And I've ridden in proper monsoon

Never heard of it. No opinion. 🙂

I spoke about lube in the video. 🙂👍🏻

Insane isn't it ! ......the most important thing you can do on the bike is be as _visible as possible_ .....everything else is secondary.

Agreed! That’s why my jersey is full white on the back, half white on the front and I use a white helmet with green reflectors. 🙂👍🏻

moving bits are what catches drivers attention, ie. on your heels or pedals especially at night

@@reginaldscot165 Hah, that'll teach me not to watch until the end of the video! @jamble7k Very true, white socks are excellent in that regard, but in the daytime it's best not to look like the shadow of a tree, that dark bit of a hedge, or any other dull bit of the landscape through which you're riding. The GCN presenters are particularly guilty in this respect, IMO.

For many, emotional safety trumps physical safety. Black makes me look less fat.

Correct. Although I find tram tracks impossible to cross when wet. I hit one set perfectly, straight across and I was fully upright. But as soon as my front wheel so much as touched it my bike flipped on to its side in a nanosecond! I really hurt my shoulder that day. 😞

@@reginaldscot165 Ouch. Also diesel fuel spillages are very slippery in the wet.

Cycling glasses are hydrophobic and anti-fog. Also they are very wide giving plenty of visibility. I’d recommend them if you have never tried. The tools would only get wet if you took them out the bad in the rain. If I don’t need them then they stay completely dry. Also they are small tools, so the bag helps to keep them together. Also they are steel, so if they get wet they will rust and turn my white jersey orange. 😁

I don’t think we disagree. 🙂 You are just adding more useful information. 👍🏻 How often do you check under your 3 year old tape? And does it come in bright colours? 🙂

@@reginaldscot165 I've reset this tape 3 or 4 times since purchase & found it couldn't stay in place so last time I used double-sided sticky tape which has worked really well. I use Brooks tape & saddles which only come in black (or brown), which suits me & the look of the bike. If I want more visibility I have fluoro-yellow gloves (Ekoi) & helmet (Lazer).

Just try searching for “fluro yellow bar tape” must be 1000s of different options available. I wouldn’t recommend this one, it’s by fizik and it’s not up to their old tape standard.

I think newer paint is worse. Or so I’ve heard. That’s an interesting point about wear on rims, but you see did some maths on that and you might be surprised at the results 😁

That’s actually very logical. 🙂👍🏻

I’m my opinion Only for racing.

How do you know if it’s definitely not going to rain? I don’t know many people who plan to ride in the rain? 🙂

What god do I need to sacrifice to for that perk?

@@reginaldscot165 i dont know i think once the streak gets going you`ll get the hang of it^^ I managed nearly a year to the point, where my colleagues asked me to ride my bike when they had theire rest days;D but on a serious note it was probably just the time of the day on my commute where the chance of rain was pretty low anyway and sprinkle in a bit of luck and you have magic;P and i dont think that works in countries with monsun rain

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If I lived in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I’d move. 😉

Funnily enough, it doesn't always rain in N Wales. Here's a true story. I learned to drive in Bangor when I was doing a postgrad degree at the uni. On not a single one of my twenty or so driving lessons did it rain, so when on the day of my test it did actually rain I was a bit shaky on operating the windscreen wipers. I managed to fail the test, although that was because I went round a roundabout on the outskirts of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch at 30 mph in 5th gear.

Yes because much more powerful brakes is what you need on a 6.5kg road bike with skinny tyres on a wet road. 😁👍🏻

@@reginaldscot165 cmon bro. Not every single viewer has to agree with your points. Every single friend of mine who went from rim to disc (including me) is never going back, or regretting

Once you've spent that much money on something you do tend to be biased, however ugly it is. If I spent 15k on a new Madone I'm sure I'd do my best to convince myself it looked pretty.

Sometimes, depending on the location, temperature, type of rain, length of travel. They can be. 🙂👍🏻

@@reginaldscot165 Agreed. Places with light consistent drizzle, it's ok. But places where it downpours, well, we never win that battle and always get soaked through. Better to wear something that dries quickly.

Meaning? 🙂

Is that “after” or “rather than.” 😁