There are plenty of people in the Seattle Randonneuring group who make the
R-12 (a 200K every month for a year) and K-Hound (10,000KM in a year) so it
must not be that bad ;)
Actually I'm from western Oregon originally and had weather not so
dissimilar to Seattle. I never really thought twice about riding in the
rain when I was a kid because I didn't know any different. I had a Schwinn
Collegiate 12 speed with EGSE fenders, now known of course as SKS. The
only thing you had to be careful about was the brakes, they were highly
ineffective when wet with the steel rims.
Of course nowadays with machined aluminum sidewalls stopping power in the
wet is a lot better.
The rain is different in the NW than in the South. It's sunnier more in
the South with more thunderstorms and torrential downpours. Not so much in
the NW, thunderstorms are relatively rare west of the Cascades. In the NW,
you'll get the same amount of rain in 100 days of drizzle. You can handle
the drizzle, man up and go ride. Just stay home on the truly nasty days.
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:38 PM, dstein wrote:
> Question for the Seattleites on here. I know the riding is great in and
> around Seattle. Well I don't 'know know', but I imagine it is, lots of
> various terrain and an endless supply of nature and picturesque landscapes.
> But how is the weather for year round riding? Contemplating a move in a
> year or two, possibly to Seattle since that is where my company is based
> out of and my job is supposed to be. I know it rains a lot. I hear the
> weather is shitty like 9 months out of the year. But I've been spending a
> lot of time there recently and it seems that while its constantly gray and
> cloudy, its usually not actually raining. Is this the case? Do you find
> that you can get out most weekends on a ride (I work banker hours and
> weekends are my riding time).
>
> To put it in more context: I live in the Bay Area, and am spoiled by year
> round world class riding weather. Seriously, there are like 6-7 weekends a
> year when its raining, and when it does it rains it does so for a few weeks
> straight and I eventually end up suiting up in some rain proof garb and
> going for it, and usually end up hating every second of it, but hard to
> complain since it rains so seldom. I previously lived in Tennessee, where I
> was used to more inclemental weather, and I'd say there I averaged a good
> ride every other weekend throughout the year (more riding in the spring and
> fall, less in the cold, icy, winters and oppressively hot summers).
>
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