Lets talk about rain riding technique

[Lord_Bragle]

I go very carefully in the wet, I’m sure I’m an encumbrance to other road users (like the impatient car drive behind me) but I don’t care, the physics and dynamics are completely different on a single-track vehicle in the wet.  I go into a “let’s get home safe” mode.  All the fun of ridding disappears and the only positive thing is having to face up to the challenge of wet ridding.

Diesel spills scare me most, you cant always see them and its usually on roundabouts that you get them, I try to go round them with the bike perpendicular, even though its believed that this is impossible?  There’s loads more I can think of -like leaves are bad enough but absolutely deadly in the wet, you can get rear wheel spin on white lines in the wet that you never would in the dry, and of course, the most important advantage a bikes got -which is its acceleration and chuck ability- is lost when riding in the rain.