Originally Posted by
fly:yes/land:no
i bike to work regardless of weather. (caveat: today i ran.) it is only ~7 miles each way. in my experience,
people in so cal don't have a f#@&$%# clue how to drive in wet weather - perhaps due to the infrequency of rain here. exacerbating the situation is the fact that rain is the fact that lots of oil builds up in the road between rains and that roads have very, very poor drainage. i am less enthusiastic to ride in the rain here than i was in ohio for sure. now, the wisdom of starting a thread complaining about rain when a majority of the country is having storms and european airports have been closed for about a week is debatable.
I think this is incorrect. Most people say this but I think the real problem is that SoCal drivers are a bunch of a-holes anyway. That whole 95mph down to 5mph fifty different times during a commute doesn't happen anywhere else in the US. I travel for work and have been in all 50 states and spend a ton of time on the roads in these states. The thing I notice is that people elsewhere are COURTEOUS. Speeding in Iowa is 8mph over the limit. People are respectful and watch the speeds. Here in SoCal I can hop on the I5 and be merging into 90mph traffic that could give a **** about me. People cutting lanes just to gain two spots. It's crazy.
I don't think it's that they don't know how to drive - I think we have some of the BEST drivers out there. It's easy to tool down the freeway in South Dakota - it's way more difficult to navigate 6-lane thoroughfares with multiple exits and hundreds of thousands of cars at break-neck speeds.
There are more accidents in rain because idiots pull the same crap they pull every day but the roads are less forgiving - so those 95mph to 5mph stops take just a little bit more distance in the rain than in the dry - and that nails these idiots every time.