Really?
I ride in and around that valley Risca/Machen/Cwmcarn most weeks year round. Mix of hardtail and full sus throughout the winter and never noticed it to be that hard wearing. But perhaps that’s as I lived next to Woburn for a couple of years which truly ate drive trains in wet weather
Honestly, one ride and both the bikes were trashed. We'd done a few days at Coed y Brenin earlier in the same week, also very wet. No such problems there.
Really?
I ride in and around that valley Risca/Machen/Cwmcarn most weeks year round. Mix of hardtail and full sus throughout the winter and never noticed it to be that hard wearing. But perhaps that’s as I lived next to Woburn for a couple of years which truly ate drive trains in wet weather