Washout

Yesterday's motor cycle ride was a washout literally.  I was out on the cycle on Wednesday traveling all the way over to Elliot road and the I 10 interchange...  That's probably 15 city miles over there, but I went on the interstate...

After going to the stores that I selected, I came outside to find it dark and sprinkling...  I thought that since I was in the footprint of the South mountain that traveling East would get me out of the rain...  But it didn't...  Just when I thought it was over, I drove into another patch..

I stayed on the city streets all the way back home to keep out of the tire spray on the interstate...  I stayed relatively dry..  The rain coat feature of my riding jacket was working but even my jeans seemed to not be overly wet...

I reasoned that it would be over by morning.........  Uh, wrong.....  At about 4 AM it began to rain in earnest...   Not a deluge, but coming right down for here in the desert..  I wondered if any of the riders would go on the weekly ride....

Back in Kansas, I would have been denigrated if I had wimped out and not gone or taken the truck...  They go out no mater what the weather might be...  So I wondered if the hard core riders here would  show up anyway....

So I put on my rain liner pants and the coat and headed out to the meet up point.....  I was about 15 minutes early..  And the end of the rain was out to the West of Phoenix.... And it was moving my way..  But I was the only rider that came... I sat there under an acatia tree realizing that Arizona riders are so used to sunny and 100 degrees, that any rain or weather under 60 degrees is considered unrideable...

They don't need to send out abort emails, because everyone knows that we simply don't do that!!

That is the difference in social settings of different parts of the country...  I guess it depends on what you get used to....

I didn't go home... I continued the ride back into the downtown area of Apache Junction...  I didn't see any other motorcycles..  But oddly enough, I passed a lot of bicyclists..  Most of them only had on light rain coats....

It rained well into the afternoon, so had we gone it would have been rainy all day...  Still I was missing my nice motorcycle lunch...

Retired Rod