I've lived in both Buffalo and Seattle, so yes I know about rain My Bluemel fenders are from my Seattle days. I took them off my bike in the summer of 1981, and then my bike was stolen. I've been carrying them around from place to place ever since without using them as none of my bikes since had eyelets. I don't ride in the rain often anyway. Ironically, I brought my carbon road bike to Seattle for a vacation and it rained every day. I rode more in the rain on that 6 day vacation than I did in my 8 years living in Seattle. No fenders on that trip.

I'll be in Ithaca and Binghamton next week too, my twin daughters are doing school tours...