Normally if we are having a rain shower, I may put on a jacket, but basically it is business-as-usual.
This morning, because I knew the roads were already soggy, I dressed a little differently. A waterproof jacket, quick drying trousers and rubber boots. I packed my stuff in my backpack because it has a raincover and my panniers do not. The panniers don't even pretend to be remotely water repellent, as I found out in a heavy rain last year.
The boots were fine for the smaller puddles, but I did ride through some very deep lakes and the wake from the front wheel washed over the boot tops; soggy socks. Oh well.
The only really bad part: the front of my jacket drained water onto the nose of my saddle, which then ran across the top of the seat. The one part of me I thought would be dry for sure, was not.
4 comments:
That rain was nuts - and there was a heck of a lot of thunder, too... I'm glad to hear you didn't get washed away in the storm!
I think I've said it before, but I like the lines of that bike - it's very classy. Have you ever been on gravel with it?
The back lane is gravel (well, dirt actually) but it is quite gravel-like when the grader comes by. It handles it quite well. Of course, I am not going 50km/hr.
This might sound crazy, but I seem to get soaked to different degrees on different bikes (the amount of rain held constant). On my Pashley I stay drier than on other bikes; could be that the geometry places me so that the least surface area is exposed to rain? Oh well, it is probably in my head!
Great boots! Too bad they didn't keep your socks dry. :(
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