I'll ride in the rain, but only if the vis is good. I feel that car drivers (cage drivers) are dangerous when texting and even more dangerous when driving and texting when its raining!!!

I live in Oregon. I ride my bike. Ergo, I ride in the rain. That is why God invented fenders, wool and goretex.

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When I decided to bike commute year-round, I decided that weather was not going to alter that plan (this is Northern California, so it's not like we get a "real winter" anyway, at least according to my sister in Chicago). So, I ride in the rain - my old road bike (aka winter commuter) is equipped with fenders, I have rain pants, I have rain jackets, I have rain gloves, and occasionally I'll get caught without any of it. In that case, I get wet. Fortunately, I must not be related to the Wicked Witch of the West, since I haven't melted yet. As I tell well-meaning co-workers who sometimes offer me a ride home, "As near as I can tell, I'm not water soluble." Actually, during heavy rainstorms I prefer to ride my bike since most of my commute is on a protected bike path and MUP, versus driving my car on the bumper car ride they call a freeway.

If you want to ride for transportation you need the right gear and attitude to do so. If you want to just ride say for exercise, with friends, to show off, etc. it really doesn't matter.