Profpointy
Legendary Member
Can't help feeling you're all over-thinking this. If you buy a bike made of a waterproof material, such as a combination of steel, alloy, carbon fibre, and rubber it'll be just fine
Can't help feeling you're all over-thinking this. If you buy a bike made of a waterproof material, such as a combination of steel, alloy, carbon fibre, and rubber it'll be just fine
Water washes the oil out of the components, and with salt dissolved in it can cause rusting & corrosion. It's a perfectly reasonable fear.
At my current and last place its a covered shelter but it was just left to the elements at my last work (and Dublin gets a lot of the wet stuff). It was cleaned and dried occasionally but the only specific element protection it got was a poly bag over the saddle but that was more of a comfort thingHow many of you have to leave your bike in the elements while it's at work. I do and I don't like it. We don't have a bike shed so its just chained to a fence all day, with others.
Any recommendations in doing this and I don't fancy carrying a cover. Plus it could be under the cover wet through if I arrive in rain. What preventative methods in anti-corrosion could I do?