On my road bike I try to avoid rain but this isn't practical when living in Indiana! The last 30 year average rainfall is 35.55 inches a year with 35 inches of snow a year.

My commute miles are not very far only about 3 miles, but ride after work between 10 to 20 miles and on the weekends (usually just one of the two days) I ride between 60 to 150 miles. The street quality here is not real good due to the rain and snow there are a lot of potholes and large cracks. I also ride on chip and seal pavement which is very rough and even sometimes ride on (short) brick roads which are actually smoother then chip and seal! But I have only lived here since 2004 before that I was in Calfornia for 35 years.

What you also don't know is that the road bike I'm riding on has over 140,000 miles on it and still going strong. The bike was my last bike I used in racing back in the mid 80's so it's a racing bike made of steel and equipped with 100% Suntour Superbe components. When I moved here from California I decided after my first surprise downpour while riding that I better treat the internal frame with a rust preventer to be safe...though I'm not sure why since I want an excuse to buy another racing bike (sentimental reasons) even though I don't race...so why buy another racing bike? for fun.