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I decided to take a late-evening jaunt down to Fry's this evening. The weather has been off and on rain all day, so I knew I was taking a chance.
The ride down was perfectly dry, and quite pleasant. I discovered that the marked speed on a particular interchange was estimated very conservatively. I got to watch as a poser in a lowered, fancy-wheeled car ran wide on a curve in front of me (to no one's actual detriment, except perhaps to his ego), suggesting either lack of skill or lack of attention.
Fry's itself was, as always, a huge bin of temptation. I managed to restrain myself and only get a DVD set and some CDR envelopes in addition to the batteries I'd originally gone for.
However, when I got outside, I was greeted by post-sunset deep dusk, and pounding rain. Well, I thought it was pounding at the time.
I secured my booty, and donned my helmet while still under the cover of Fry's ostentatious overhang. I leapt aboard the bike (more or less), and headed out.
As I rounded the onramp to I-405 northbound, at a conservative pace, the rain seemed to increase in intensity a bit. By the time I reached the end of the ramp (possibly amplified by the passing traffic), the rain seemed to have doubled from its previous intensity.
When I finally got to a section of road where I didn't have someone right in front of me, I confirmed that the rain intensity had, in fact, doubled from what I'd seen before.
The rain didn't slacken until I was nearly home, of course, and well after the Aerostich suit's notorious "leaking crotch" had reared its chilly head. My gloves, treated a year or two ago for some modicum of waterproofness, squished. My feet seemed dry enough, which is something of a miracle considering that my boots are not nominally waterproof, and there was even more water at foot-level than there was at glove-level.
And now, I sit here slowly evaporating, drying out. It's nice to be home and inside. Maybe I'll watch a DVD.
Posted at 21:57 permanent link category: /motorcycle
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater