I had a very wet commute to work today. Left at 5:50am just as the rain went from a little sprinkle to more like an inch of rain an hour. I installed a new set of fenders on my bike over the weekend and they worked flawlessly. Of course I was still soaked to the bone when I arrived at work a half hour later. This was my first wet commute, and I had two pieces of equipment let me down. First my bike computer regularly jumped between 4.5 and 34miles per hour. And logged 8.4 miles on my 7.33 mile ride. The second thing that let me down, was luckily a borrowed pannier from a co-worker. It's a Seattle Sports Rain Rider Pannier Bag: http://tinyurl.com/2a5wyvr

The large compartment did exactly what it was supposed to, and kept my clothes and laptop dry. The zipper pouch on the side however had an inch of standing water in the bottom of it when I arrived at work. I'm both happy, and disappointed my Google Nexus One survived.

Guess it's time to buy some rain gear for myself. Being soaked was ok, but not real comfortable.