12 hour race report

[DirtDiva]

Nice! Mud is great fun, until you have to clean it up.

[crazycanuck]

Hey, that looks like fun...I sure hope your washing machine handled the load well...!!!

mud!

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[rocknrollgirl]

Multiple sets of riding clothes for two racers.....caked on mud.....it took a hose off in the yard, a bucket wash and 4 trips through the machine.....

Today....we start on the bikes. They have been rinsed, but we have to do brake pads, and cables, and on, and on.....

Ruth

[SalsaMTB]

Wow, good job on the race! That's great you beat out some of the men's teams.

Just out of curiousity, you said people w/ disc brakes were without after a couple laps. I currently have V-brakes but always heard disc are better for poor conditions. So, did the rim brakes fail after a while also or just the disc? If just disc, how come?

[fatbottomedgurl]

Wow Pigpen!!! I don't think I will ever see mud like that!!!

[rocknrollgirl]

Well,
I think that the disc brakes are better in general in poor conditions. I have had both, so I can speak from experience.

However, when you are out in those types of conditions, in the heavy, heavy mud, the mud gets on the brake pad and literally sands them away. So you have a sandwich of mud and metal and when you apply the brakes, it just grinds away the pads.

It is the second time this season that we have raced in those conditions and it happened both times. The experienced mud puppies brought multiple sets of pads with them and some racers changed them every few laps. I just tried not to brake....Ha Ha ha......it actually worked the first two laps.

Ruth