no rain rides- doh!
by deliberately avoiding riding in the rain you are missing out on an opportunity to broaden the suite of riding skills needed to be a competent and safe rider in whatever conditions are thrown your way.
The GP riders don't stay in the shed when the track is wet and neither should you, albeit they do have special wet tyres.
I can promise you that there will be those times when you are a hundred miles out from your destination when it starts to piss down and that's no time to find out the hard way about
a) how long it needs to rain before all the accumulated oil and crap is washed away
b) the funky connection between low tyre pressures and aquaplaning
c) why you should have cleaned the visor before you set out
etc etc etc
as a consequence of where I live and work, half of all my trips to and from work are in the wet- sure its a drag and you can't "have as much of a go" on a wet strip, but there are all those other wet ride challenges to make the ride interesting and dare I say fun.
good wet weather gear is fairly cheap- although its a challenge to find boots that keep the H2O out altogether- but I am talking tropical monsoonal rain here :|
if you keep the stainless steel pipes fairly clean of dirt and crud, rust shouldn't be too much of an issue-
go on go out get wet and just pray for dry roads again tomorrow
cheers ...kimbo
