Like I'm an expert in riding in the rain because we get as much as (hold yer breath) 5" a year!!! 9" average ABQ-wide, ranging from 14" near foothills to said 5" at west mesa.
But it comes down all at once -- last nights downpour closed roads and last month we had flooding in underpasses with police rescuing drivers in flooded cars. Main point and thesis: Ponchos work great, if you ride in rain in warm weather. Even the cheap ($30) Campmore poncho kept me dry from neck to knee in a huge gale with rain coming down so fast it flooded my access road 2' deep. You just have to dump the lake that forms in the depression between forearm and bar every 1/2 mile or so. The Campmore poncho has a hood, btw, but no hood will keep you dry when riding into gale-blown horizontal rain. I've owned several types including the Ducksback; that was very effective but too damned warm -- I sweated. The nylon Carradice wasn't voluminous enough for drop bars. The Campmore is the best of the 3, for me, though I'd improve things if I had to use it more often than 5 times a year. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Ron Mc <bulldog...@gmail.com> wrote: > we've discussed bike ponchos before (either here or iBOB), and they work > great. My daughter and I have Vaude Valdipino and they're excellent. We > used them once in a downpour. They cover your bars and breathe - room for > helmet - it's like being inside a tent. I ordered them from Germany, > though I don't remember the vendor, but got them both here for $90. > They're much better than a jacket, because they breathe so well. > > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
