Commuting - Don't drink the rain...

I got home from the pouring rain tonight and threw my bike jersey and shorts in the sink. Well usually the water's clear when I take it out to wash it after the soak but this time, it was like a tan murky color that I can only attribute to the rain coming down in NYC...

You could always try not breathing the air either. That's probably just as grungy.

Might make life a little difficult after four minutes or so, though.

Well I'm sure my lungs are worse than a chain smoker's after more than a year of nonstop commuting day in and day out... but there haven't been many days of pouring rain that I've ridden in so I don't remember much about it, cept it was just really creepy seeing all the brown water.

Did you get a little mud splashed, perhaps? Or the dye could be running in your clothes. I have a pair of gloves that exudes black dye every time I wash them, and I have had them since July and wash them weekly.

I've been wearing the same set of clothes for the past year, never had this happen before.

I think you got muddy.

Same clothes everyday for a year? :( Must be pretty well worn? :D

Aha. I've got it.





Purple rain, purple rain.

Funny I was just thinking how I didn't need my water bottle last night.

Kyoto's Revenge.

I've been wearing the same set of clothes for the past year, never had this happen before.

There's the problem. You're supposed to wash your clothes. It was all the mud and dirt and sweat built up from a year of riding getting washed out finally.

HaHa.

Tim

Haw haw... I have 3 sets of clothes that I rotate through on a regular basis and WASH. :p

road mud

I got home from the pouring rain tonight and threw my bike jersey and shorts in the sink. Well usually the water's clear when I take it out to wash it after the soak but this time, it was like a tan murky color that I can only attribute to the rain coming down in NYC...
You didn't wring out your shorts into a glass and try to drink it, did you?

:eek:

So that's where yellow snow comes from! :D

i wonder how clean the water coming directly from the sky is? i mean it does have to pass though significant pollution before it arrives on the ground. i don't think it should be so dirty as to be brown though. i think most of that must be splash back from the road or dirt already in the jersey.

Hmm... road spray seems to make the most sense. Though now I regret not wringing it into a glass and tasting it.

Regret? Why, can you taste the difference between road spray and acid rain?