Guys,

Am new to the area (well, to the country actually) and have been without my bike for about 3 months whilst it was being shipped over - so now it's here I'm pretty keen to get out for a ride.

Back in the UK I wouldn't give a second thought to riding pretty much any of my local routes in the rain (in fact, some of the best riding is in the wet), but here I've noticed there seems to be much more concern about the problem of cutting up trails.

I'm pretty much in central Sydney, so where would be the nearest XC trail that would be OK to ride in the wet?

Thanks

Mike

Just talking about cables and stuff in the other thread, reminded me of a prob I have with my Rush. When ever I go off a gutter and pedaling, it seems to want to skip a gear.

A run down on the bike, it's only recently been built, It's got all new outer and inner cables, XTR shifters, XTR shadow long cage derailleur, XT cassette, XTR chain. Now, I'm pretty confident it's not a component problem as it was happening when I had m SLX shifters on there and the SLX rear derailleur on there. I thought that this problem was from them, so I went the upgrade.