Riding In Mud And Wet - Mountain Bike Zen
Don't Ride in the Wet
Okay for those of us who have to work and want to ride at the weekend this aint gonna make us happy, especially if you live in Britain or Ireland as ruling out riding in the wet rules out riding for 50% of the year and if you love riding you're gonna want to get out whatever the weather. If you're lucky enough to live somewhere mainly dry then sure, maybe skipping the odd ride due to inclement conditions is acceptable.
Before you go make sure you have the right kit on your bike and your body. For sticky mud you need tyres that can clear the mud well as the mud will cling between the raised areas and basically reduce your tyre grips to the same as road slicks, and then your gonna sleeeiiiide. In emergencies you can modify your existing tyres by chopping some of the knobbles off the grip to help widen the gaps and increase mud clearance. mud clearance.
In very watery conditions where muddy areas are more like soup mud tyres are unlikely to help you much as the mud will not stick much to your tyres anyway and you will have less grip.