Originally Posted by tarwheel

My pretty new touring bike got baptized yesterday as I had to ride home in wraparound showers from the nor'easter that moved up the East Coast. Forecasters had said the rain would be gone here by noon with just a few light sprinkles, but it turned into a torrent by afternoon. It was a very slow moving weather system and I thought it would pass by the time I left work, but it just kept getting worse. Ironically, it was supposed to be raining in the morning, so I thought I had dodged the bullet when I rode to work with wet roads but no showers.