79pmooney
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| 03/29/2014 05:43 PM |
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I left the house this morning knowing I would probably see a quick downpour. Stayed dry until I was a couple of miles from home when I got caught in a rain fit only for frogs.
I was wearing a Showers Pass Event jacket and a Segoi helmet cover. Good move! (The Event jacket is the one with a nylon-like grey inside line. It does not roll or fold to jersey pocket size.)
Granted, I didn't spend a lot of time out there but had I, those items would have been appreciated more. The other thing I thought during that shower when it turned to hail: Visors and glasses work really well to keep hail out of eyes.
Ben
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huckleberry
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| 03/29/2014 06:09 PM |
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Never mind rain so much if it hits me well after I've started my ride - never like starting in it...
So I don't ; ) |
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Dale
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| 03/29/2014 08:58 PM |
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What Huck said… I've been out loads of times when it started raining and kept on riding- even came in with a coating of ice once but I'm seldom heading out if it's pouring rain.
Couple of exceptions-- cyclocross race if I've already paid the entry fee, or a hot summer day when it looks like it won't be a prolonged storm or that it will turn cold.
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Cosmic Kid
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| 03/29/2014 09:43 PM |
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Down in FL for storing break...weather has sucked all week, but I got my 250 in regardless (with two rest days!!)
Monday it rained all day.....I mean ALL DAY. Like huck and Dale, I have no desire to start out in the rain, but had no choice. So out I went for 3 hours in the wet.....was enjoyable once I got going. I like riding in he he rain as long as it is not too cold. |
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longslowdistance
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| 03/29/2014 10:28 PM |
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| Got fenders? |
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79pmooney
Posts:3180
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| 03/29/2014 11:37 PM |
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lsd, oh yea! Full with a real front flap. And I rode the winter fixie, the bike for fording streams, etc.
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Master50
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| 03/30/2014 11:05 AM |
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| I generaly won't go out the door if it is raining. not even light showers but if it has bee wet long enough I can force myself out the door. Now once I am out there and I have the fender bike I don't mind if I am not cold yet. Wet means a long post ride clean up but cold is just no fun to be had. |
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Orange Crush
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| 03/30/2014 11:17 AM |
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I got over the hesitation to start off when it is raining some time ago. Really, its just a mental barrier that lasts about a minute.
CK it started raining in FL the day we left :-) |
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THE SKINNY
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| 03/31/2014 09:30 AM |
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| it usually doesn't just 'rain' here. it storms with lightning and winds. granted it doesn't last long but i have a healthy fear of lightning so i stay indoors. |
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zootracer
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| 03/31/2014 10:58 AM |
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| I don't mind getting wet, but I won't head out the door if it's raining. Got stuck in a hail storm once, it hurt. Had to take shelter until it passed over. When I left the house the sun was out, then about 45 min into the ride it started to rain, then hail, then snow. Man the things I have been through with my old Master X-Light. |
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Keith Richards
Posts:781
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| 03/31/2014 11:21 AM |
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| Nothing makes getting out in a chilly rain easier than a shot of hard liquor. |
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It is his word versus ours. We like our word. We like where we stand and we like our credibility."--Lance Armstrong. |
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ChinookPass
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| 03/31/2014 11:37 AM |
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| I just think about sitting in traffic in a car. That solves the problem immediately and I throw the leg over the bike and go. Don't have much reason to take a recreational or "training" ride in a downpour though. |
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Orange Crush
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| 03/31/2014 11:38 AM |
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Keith I think you are confusing the end of the ride with the start.
But as I always say, nothing a hot shower can't fix. |
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zootracer
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| 03/31/2014 11:53 AM |
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| Don't get me drinking again... |
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