Originally Posted by
Walter S
I ride. More times than not, the weather man is dramatizing and I don't even get wet. Once in a long while I get caught in a storm. It's not the end of the world. And it leads to a good story.
I do try to avoid real cold AND wet. One is OK. A lot of both makes for numbing cold.
On our Comcast Cable TV we have the Weatherscan Channel, 245, with continuous Doppler over the Metropolitan Boston area, so I can see the immediate conditions over my route. Even when the weatherhuman is predicting rain for Boston, NOS, I can determine the immediate and near-future conditions nearly exactly over my route.
My decision is rarely whether to ride or not, but more often which bike and what to wear. If I ride the carbon fiber bike and stay dry, or the beater bike in the rain, I “win.” If I make the wrong choice, I “lose.”