Came REALLY close to getting hit tonight. I know some here will be happy to hear that.

Boss let two of us (cyclists) go home 30 minutes early to beat a major rain event that was fast approaching on radar. As I am rolling down a soaking wet road under light rain a cop turns on his lights and bumps his siren about a block behind me (and a row of cars). Of course all of the cars ahead of me freeze up and I made the sorry mistake of passing a car on the right just when we got to a huge gap in cars parked curbside. The car I am in the process of illegally passing decides, sans turn signal, to ditch into the parking area to our right. I braced for impact figuring I would bail to the right side of my bike, sacrificing my LHT to the underside of the car so I could live to scoff at the law another day.

The impact never came. Millimeters at most. Puckered me up pretty good tho.

I stopped at my local outfitter and picked up my Marmot PreCip full side zip pants (I had them on order) just minutes after the downpour started. The clerk brought them to me as I stand dripping on their Welcome mat. Perfect fit! My old rain pants gave it up a couple of days ago and the weather has been all about flash floods here in NOLA the past week.

So...a happy ending after all. I will probably refrain from passing on the right after dark during rainfall for a while too.