I have found the best way to deal with rain is to strip naked, and put your clothes in the saddle bags so they don't get wet. Then jump out there and ride. If you take a small spray bottle of liquid soap with you. You can get a high pressure shower while your out. Yea it hurts a bit but life is pain.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe