Rain

i've been pretty much soaking all week cycling about town. it has rained a hell of a lot.
what keeps me smiling is this brilliant statistic from tfl.

"It's drier than you think - if you ride year round, you're likely to get caught in rain only eight times. February and March are two of the driest months."

i reckon i've got wet at least 8 times this week.

should be dry for the next foreseeable future.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/13160.aspx?lid=switcher

this last six months i have only got wet about 8 times communting every day into and out of london and really wet only a couple of times
it's been a brilliant summer in that respect

It's especially pleasant to ride in the rain without mudguards, when you currently own a set of mudguards but haven't quite got round to fitting them as they are too fucking cumbersome to fucking fit on.

When I got home I looked like my water had broken.

these are pretty good mudguards.
easy on and easy off.
http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/userimages/procart13.htm
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/sks/xtra-dry-rear-mudguard-ec004908

The temperature has droped to 0 degrees here this week. But there has'nt been a cloud in the sky for 10 or so days.

Fecking glorious!

i'm LOVING my crud mudguards at the mo. Even though they make my bike look shit, they are staying on till april

this last six months i have only got wet about 8 times communting every day into and out of london and really wet only a couple of times
it's been a brilliant summer in that respect

Dicki did you mean to say 'communting'? excellent extension of the best word ever Munt

these are pretty good mudguards.
easy on and easy off.
http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/userimages/procart13.htm
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/sks/xtra-dry-rear-mudguard-ec004908

I've seen that bender fender and heard good things but I really dont trust it.

Yeah its been a wet few weeks. But it really doesn't rain here as much as 'they'd' have you believe. Whoever 'they' are.

I've seen that bender fender and heard good things but I really dont trust it.

Good for crud catching and precious little else. You're better off with a set of raceblades.

Rain pants are also handy if a little dorky looking.

+1

Typically, measurable rainfall (an amount of 0.2 mm or more) occurs on over 250 days per year over much of the Highlands, decreasing to around 175 days per year on the Angus, Fife and East Lothian coasts. In comparison, the driest part of Britain, along the Thames Estuary in south-east England, averages around 150 days per year with measurable rainfall.

In a year it's got to me more like 20.... maybe I'm just unlucky, but I do ride for nearly two hours 5 days a week.

It's a bit of a bastard hanging all your kit out to dry at work, but I'm looking forward to ending a busy week with a soaking wet ride home, then straight into a hot shower.

It's a bit of a bastard hanging all your kit out to dry at work, but I'm looking forward to ending a busy week with a soaking wet ride home, then straight into a hot shower.

I know what you mean, but I prefer to have a flake in an overfilled bath with the taps running while listening to enya.

i'm LOVING my crud mudguards at the mo. Even though they make my bike look shit, they are staying on till april

Your bike always looks shit.

I don't understand the obsession with mudguards, surely fixie skidders just weave in and out of the raindrops? that is why they ride like that, isn't it?

You should know, you're the pin up for fixie skidder with your bad boy image. You're like Mel Gibson in mad max.

Yes Tommy, I am just testing them...

You should know, you're the pin up for fixie skidder with your bad boy image. You're like Mel Gibson in The Passion of Christ.

Fuxed

TOP TIP

Want to keep your arse dry, but don't like your bike looking gay with mudguards (like owenreed's?)

Loosen the strap on your waterproof messenger bag so it hangs right down just past your saddle. This works a treat.

TOP TIP

Want to keep your arse dry, but don't like your bike looking gay with mudguards (like owenreed's?)

Loosen the strap on your waterproof messenger bag so it hangs right down just past your saddle. This works a treat.

His bike does look gay.

do many of you still ride brakeless in the wet?

Haven't worn neoprene overshoes in ages, with goretex trousers and hat, I did look a total "communter", but even my feet were driza-bone

frikken armadillos are like skating on ice

Got Cruds the other day and they're fairly discrete. Still not enough clearance to fit them on my lo-pro, but got them on my Sunday bike.

do many of you still ride brakeless in the wet?

No, it's all about brakless in the nude for 09/10 season