Thanks All! My interest lies more in weekend riding, preferably without rain. A sprinkle is fine. But I find a steady rain just isn't worth it to me: poor visibility, slick roads, poor brake performance, etc. Commuting aside, trying to gauge if there are long stretches (weeks, months) where the rain is constant, or if it lets up here and there making it pretty easy to find a dry spell, if even for a few hours. Sounds like the latter (and thats what it seems like when I go there for work). It doesn't rain much in the bay area, but when it does i find it its pretty steady with almost no brake in the action, making it harder to get out. Tennessee was the same way for months on end in the winter, just really poor riding conditions.
The seattle summers sound pretty nice! I've been there and the sun going down at 10PM and the great weather make it pretty appealing. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:24 AM, 'Steve D.' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > I moved to Seattle from San Jose (Fresno North) in '03, and haven't looked >> back. What's great about living in the Pacific Northwest is the distinct >> change of seasons; you can feel the transitions from summer to autumn, >> winter to spring. The riding up in Seattle and its outlying >> suburbs/countryside is awesome. When I'm not working from home, I commute >> by bike, rain or shine. When it snows, I work from home. >> > > What you're missing out on in the Bay Area is when spring hits, the days > get longer. During the summer months, the sun doesn't go down until > 9pm/10pm; lots of late night dinners on the patio after a long commute home. > > Winter riding is about suiting up to stay dry on the rainy days, which are > not as terrible as a lot of people think (ust don't tell any of your > neighbors I told you that ;) ). Make sure you have good lighting if you're > commuting to work in the winter months. As the days get longer in spring, > lights won't matter as much unless you're riding at 5am. It's already > getting lighter around 6am. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/Pm9RqjfbeRg/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
