This time of year I always have at least one saddle bag on my sickle. For my rain suit. One thing about the rain I have learned since I wore out both pairs of my non waterproof hardely boots: Water proof boots rock! I'll let ya know how the water proof ones work in real rain after the NH Rally. Yes I said Rain and NH in the same sentence, twice now. Rain is part of rolling during the summer.

Regarding riding to work, I go to the Weather Underground site. This site shows me precisely where the rain is so I can chose the less wet route home. When using this site, click on the station that is not over your area. That way you avoid how do you say? false readings? I choose the Tampa station for the Cocoa Beach Area. Yesterday the site went down but before it did, I was able to discern that all the routes home were wetverywet. It is great to ride only 10 miles in the rain, especially knowing that Matt doesn't have access to my beer fridge.

Blowing gravel off rural roads