Yikes! Got caught in the hellacious thunderstorm that passed through this afternoon. According to the Weather Channel, local airports were recording 50-60mph blasts. I didn't get any of those, but it was pouring buckets and blowing pretty hard--motor traffic was slowed to a crawl.

Unfortunately, I also found that I had not put enough tension into the canti arms on this new bike--it's a bad feeling to have both levers bottom out on the bars at ~20mph while approaching a 4-way multi lane intersection in a violent thunderstorm. Sheesh! The look on my face was likely priceless!

But frankly I had some luck and got through it. Got off the main drag and snuck home safely. Problems fixed, lessons learned, and no harm done (but I'm not discounting my luck--in another situation I might have been seriously SOL).