Clogged Cogs

Two tired horses

This past Sunday at the Woodland Park CX (MFG#6) my cog-set got so clogged with pasty mud that I ended up riding the final three laps in one of only two available gears.  The muck had become so packed in between my cogs that by the end of the race the teeth on my lower eight gears were barely even visible.  My friend Doug D. told me that he had the same problem and that Russell S. had advised him to switch to a lower quality cog set as a cheaper rear end is less likely to clog.

I’ll try to investigate this further but leave a comment if you’ve encountered and have successfully dealt with mud-packed cogs.