I live in the Pacific Northwet. We've got no choice but to ride in the rain, sometimes for weeks on end; but it's just pissy little drizzle rain, not a freakin' tornado or crazy lightning storms.
I don't think I'd ride while under tornado watch or with some of the insane pounding rain/lightning storms I've been through in the midwest.
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