I only had a 30 minute commute, and used to go in early. Something I first noticed nearly 40 years when cycling to school, and still seems to be the case - rain often starts around 8-9 am.How do you make that out?. We've hardly had a single day in the last two weeks when it hasn't rained to some degree or other. Some of the days have been utter filth, and it has pissed it down for hours on end.
Same with me. I now grease the retaining bolts as it is a pain to get them out when they are siezed solid, even with a cnc milling machine available to me.Then when they grit the roads, salt water . Disk brake pad retaining bolt seized on both callipers in one winter
Best bit of kit I have bought for cycling in years.Gore shakedry kit. It keeps you dry and dries in minutes. Ortleib back pack is fully waterproof. I ride every day.
And that is one of the reasons why the climate is getting wetter.This is the 21st century, not the middle ages. Cars have been invented to make travelling more comfortable, amongst other things. You stay dry and you stay warm in winter. Cycle when the weather allows.
We have one dry day out of the next fortnight!
I have been commuting Clapham to Chiswick across south London for 3 days a week for the past month. My colleagues all said how wet I must get, but I reckoned when I was doing full time commuting I got soaked 1 day a month. I only really worry about going in to work because of the clothes carrying/drying/ etc was more of a faff.When I first started cycling to work I had a spreadsheet of temps, weather, clothing, times etc. I got rained on 6 times in a full year of cycle commuting. Maybe you need to move to a less wet area of the U.K?
And the more you drive, the more it increases rainfall at our latitude, and the more it rains. So the more you drive...This is the 21st century, not the middle ages. Cars have been invented to make travelling more comfortable, amongst other things. You stay dry and you stay warm in winter. Cycle when the weather allows.