My first time posting in quite a while, but yesterday / today (I had an overnight work trip) was my first cycle commute, both in my current job, and probably in a decade. I'm in Australia and it's fast heading towards summer here, 68 F today. Instead of taking it easy by riding what will become my normal route home, I had lots of spare time and decided to turn a 10km ride into a 30km ride..... and this extra time is one of the reasons I got caught out trying to ride through a thunderstorm with hail, torrential rain and lightning. Next time I might just pay a little more attention to the towering black clouds that were bearing down on me before making those kind of decisions