Originally Posted by
Hypno Toad
2) Unless you are the Wicked Witch of the West, you will not melt.
+1. I don't know how many times I've had to explain to people (especially at work) that, last time I checked, I was not water soluble.
Originally Posted by
Hypno Toad
Cleaning the bike after rain.... not so much. A clean bike is a sad bike. I clean my bikes on a schedule, generally once very couple months, or prior to a major ride.
My winter bike (with fenders of course) looks pretty bad by the end of the season; even my fixed gear (w/o fenders) on which I sometimes get caught out riding in the rain (or even right after a good rain), is looking a little grungy these days. I keep meaning to clean up both, but the weather's nice right now . . . I'd rather be riding.
As far as setting out to ride in the rain, no I don't intentionally plan to ride in the rain. However when I plan to ride, I don't use rain as an excuse to not ride. I mean, if on Sunday I plan to ride my bike to work on Tuesday, and it's raining when I get up, I know I'm going to ride in the rain. I may take my winter bike instead of my fixed gear or road bike, and I might take/wear rain pants and a rain jacket instead of bib tights and a softshell jacket, but I'm going to ride. Only if there was lightning in the air, or tornadoes I guess (neither are a common occurrence in Northern California), would I reconsider the plan to ride.