Why is it?

Why is it that you can ride a road bike for a season and not to much to it. Replace your cables and housings once every couple of years. Clean the drive train and keep it lubed. And you re pretty much good to go. Maybe every now and then you will have to adjust a derailleur, or change a flat tire or in a worse case scenario you may have to true up a rim after hitting a pot hole.

But Ride a mountain bike for 2.5 hours and come home and spend at least that much time cleaning and repairing.

Saturdays ride at Regan park resulted in a new middle chain ring (OK maybe I tweaked that one at Vulture's Knob). The replacement of a worn out chain.

Got up this morning to do the work only to find a flat tire on the front. Changed the tire and decided maybe I need to get the rim trued.

And to top it off, the day after a serious road ride you don't sit there and try to figure out where the large bruise on you leg came from, or where the scrapes on you shoulder came from.