Riding in the wet

[darrsi]

Respect then maybe?


It's harsh and foccin dangerous on a dark night when it's absolutely chucking it down.

I'll certainly agree with that one.
The amount of people that just cross a road in front of me wearing dark clothing on the way home from work at night when it's raining is just phenomenal.
They can't comprehend that every drop of rain on your visor is being illuminated by oncoming headlights, or worse still brake lights that make each drop red in colour.
Then you get potholes that can appear out of nowhere that weren't there the day before.

I changed my route into work the last few weeks because they've totally messed up my normal route with some weird reconstruction of the road and pavements which has caused major traffic problems now, and on the new route there's a sunken drain cover in the middle of the road which keeps catching me out almost every day. I know it's there, and I use it as a warning to miss the next one about 200 metres ahead, but I somehow still keep hitting it, and that's in daylight.
If I see any bad potholes I just report them myself now, as everyone will moan about them but do sod all about them.