Drivetrain treatment after wet ride

[jimmy156]

I went out for a ride in the pissing rain today, got back and it was still raining.

normally after a wet/muddy ride I would wash the bike, clean the drivetrain, dry it with a rag and then lubricate with a suitable lube.

However being a fairly fair weather rider (I have an indoor option!) I haven't had a ride where i've come home and its still pissing with rain for a long while! There would have been no point in any attempt to dry the bike / drivetrain and I don't have anywhere suitable to do so undercover. So i rinsed the loosed mud off, towelled the worst of the water off and stuck the bike away.

Will having a descent lube on the chain stop it from rusting? Is spraying with GT85 / WD40 a good bet, and then degrease & re-lubricate before riding again? I'm assuming occasionally doing the "wrong thing" is not a problem, but I want to up my cycling-commuting and it may well become a more frequent thing; just don't want to prematurely wear parts out!

[slk 32]

I'm a fair weather rider too (life is too short to deliberately get soaked!).

I went out on 23rd Dec ( forecast said no rain) got 15 miles out and it poured down. Got back and sprayed bike with muc off (focusing on drive train to remove grit). Rinsed off and dried bike off using kitchen towel to dry chain. Was going to dry lube the chain but (a) as it was still damp and (b) it was 10pm I decided to leave it.

I didn't do anything until last week so was a bit worried the chain my have rusted or the drive train would be horribly graunchy but just dry lubed it and it wss fine

[Bathroom_Security]

Muck Off Ceramic Wet works extremely well in awful conditions, keeps the drive train noise down even in wet sandy conditions and doesn't wash away

I jet wash mine with reckless abandon until its thoroughly clean after a ride, then towel dry, reapply Ceramic lube to it and leave it. Doesn't rust or cease up this way but I do have an X01 chain which is considerably better quality than a low end Sram Eagle or something which i find rust easily.

[boyse7en]

I regularly ride in crap wet/monsoon/grimy conditions, but I'm also quite lazy, so after a ride the bike gets a hose down with a brush to clean off road grime and mud, then the drivetrain gets a spray of Wd-40 to drive off the water. It then goes in the shed until the next ride, when I'll put some spray lube on the chain before I go.