On rainy days my bike is the most reliable way to get to/from work. Car traffic goes stupid. Trains break down & get cancelled. On my bike, I know: a) I’m going to get there; and b) roughly when.
I’ve always like doing any sporting activity in the rain. Once when I was a youngster I was walking down to the beach, board under my arm as it was pissing down and my mother said, ‘won’t you get wet?’.
Mind you riding home from work in winter after ten pm in the cold and wet I sometimes wonder why
I was a paperboy for a couple of years when I was a teen, which meant 6 days a every week morning (and sometimes night when I filled in), with no ditching. Those winter mornings when it was pissing down hard, you still had to get out at 5.30am. I’ve never been too fussed about riding in the rain since.
Hated the rain for years… then got some booties and couldn’t stop smiling when i got to work and my feet were dry (i was pretty damp, but dry feet was very cool). Later discovered that some booties only work for up to about 30kms (an hour travelling) when the rain is heavy - after that it’s wet feet in wet socks in wet shoes in wet booties…
But, still like the rain, just not the effect it has on other road users - total chaos some days
Wimpy fairweather cyclist…me.
I effin hate wet feet/soggy shoes with a passion.
Sealzkinz socks are meant to rock casue everyone loves dry feet
surfing in the rain = awesome, especially since it keeps the crowds down even more.
I like this thinking
I also have no other alternative, busses are too infrequent, no trains, never held any kind of license and walking takes twice as long and I’d get just as wet.
Rode today. It was cold, raining the whole way and front brakes and rain don’t work all that well. Tried to embrace it but didn’t really enjoy it.
QFToday.
Riding into the Melbourne CBD sucks ATM. Anyone know when the tram works are going to be finished on both Swanston AND Elizabeth St? It’s a bit of a dogs balls every man for himself at the moment.
my feet have only just stopped feeling cold.
was fine though, had a thermal on, my long sleeve winter jersey and my snowboard jacket. top half was toasty warm and dry, legs and feet were frozen. got a few smiles from sympathetic pedestrians 
oh, and it didn’t take any longer than normal, unlike my workmate that took 2 hours by public transport!
today was a glorious ride coming from the north, left around 7am, had nice consistant rain, not many other bikes, traffic backed-up along peel st, rolled on by with no hassles, almost magical…was in 3/4 bibs, long sleeve jersey and plastic jacket. socks and shoes were majorily dry.
Ride faster.
I had a light jacket over a tee, and some swrve knickers / MTB shoes. Dry feet, dry torso, rode past lots of stationary traffic.
i seriously contemplated taking the kona this morning!! then i realised it was sans fenders and not mine…
agreed! now they’re doing works on Elizabeth too… bumped
The works on Elizabeth Street are supposed to end this Friday, according to an email we got last week.
I’m actually looking forward to a bit of rain for a ride tomorrow morning.
Makes me feel as close as I’ll get at the to riding in a classic…
hell yeah.
I made my gaurd extender out of an old clear 3l juice bottle…clear plastic is cool to see the muddy swill that used to coat my shoes.
Rode in rain yesterday rolling through all the puddles i could find…shoes (vans) wet from the top by rain but not soaked through.