Rain
I was two blocks from home and I felt my first drips of rain.
I twisted the throttle and turned my macho factor to 11 and swept around the corner to get my baby under it’s rain cover.
I applied the brakes – and – nothing happened. I squeezed harder, and broke the rear brake cable, twang.
I’ve gone almost 1000 Km and this is the first time my bike has seen water. I don’t know if its my machine, or what, but I’m afraid, very afraid.
I put the machine under it’s cover and started writing this note.
Anyone else out there have any rain riding experience(s)?
May 31, 2007 at 4:27 pm
YIKES, Now you have me worried. I’m just about to jump on and ride home…. I guess I’ll try some braking manuevers before I get too far. I’ll comment again when I get home.
May 31, 2007 at 8:27 pm
It wasn’t raining for my ride home but scooch (my kids named the bike) was parked under the trees in Trinity square durring the rain and had gotten fairly wet. As I rode away from parking spot I tentatively squeezed the brakes and to my suprise the back wheel locked up (squeeled to a stop) I released the brake and tentatively started out again and everything worked perfectly for the rest of the ride home.
Very curious indeed.
June 21, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I read this blog on Monday night and ended up getting caught in the rain on Tuesday so I was sensitive to potential problems.
I didn’t have any problems but I am only at 140 km.
June 27, 2007 at 3:02 am
Any experience with ebikes on snow? Forget about the coldness, but I mean snow/ice/backice/etc. How is your experience with that?