Riding exercise is so sweet especially when raining. Anytime I'm on a ride with my bicycle and it start to rain, I usually enjoy the ride. The drop of the rain from my hair, to all over my body, normally makes be ride through all day without getting tired. Riding a bicycle under the rain helps to fasten the body for exercise. The body used to be flexible under the rain but the bicycle will have to bear consequences of losing griez from its chain, brake.
Yesterday been Saturday and first weekend of the month, I went out for a bicycle riding exercise. I wanted to ride from Ukpa number 2 prison to Ndibe beach Afikpo North of Ebonyi state before it start to rain. I was thinking that the rain will not take much time but my prediction was wrong as the rain keep raining. I waited for the rain to stop for about no some minutes but there was no way. I have to enter the rain and continue my weekend bicycle riding exercise.
Entering the rain to continue my bicycle riding exercise was a better choice for me because I was already feeling cold where I parked to wait for the rain to stop. As started riding my bicycle under the rain again, coldness and blood ceasing left me totally. I became very happy that my body became very flexible for my exercise.
Because of the rain, I couldn't finish up my riding kilometer plan exercise. Riding a bicycle for exercise under the rain could be sweet but at the same time can be frustrating. Because of the rain, my bicycle riding stopped me on the road. The rain entered the chain and you know what, I was not with any grease that's supposed to help me free the chain. The rain didn't only affected the chain alone but also the bicycle brake. This affected the whole riding exercise and made me not to reach my initial plan riding exercise kilometer.
Because I was no longer able to continue with my bicycle riding exercise, I took the little one I have riding already and then called cousin brothers to help me push the bicycle home till the bicycle chain and brake get free.
Maybe it's time for me to be greasing my bicycle before moving with it for any exercise riding. I'll also try everything to cover my chain bicycle with its usual cover. The cover will help the rain not to enter the chain.
Make sure you wash the mud of your chain after those rides.
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Oh, I remember back when I was a child. I enjoyed biking in the rain as well. This type of bike is easy to bring around and not so heavy.
Sweet to ride under the rain but can be disappointing when the chain and brake not greased.
That means you need to do more maintenance :D
Yes before taking a ride