the good thing about rain.

[jrandom]

Talking about leaks, I discovered today that, presumably as a result of my bin week-before-last, the right leg of my riding pants has sprung one.

Adding that to my separated left boot sole, I have two actual structural integrity breaches to add to the design flaw in my jacket-pant interface (which is fortunately negated by Jim2's parka-in-a-bag).

The water actually *pools* in my boot. It's rather unpleasant. I keep meaning to find some sort of siliconey goo that I can gob over the front o'it to keep the water out. I'm sure I've posted here and received sage advice about that before, but I only remember it on heavy-rain commuting days, so I keep forgetting to do anything about it on the weekends.

[bungbung]

Mine dry on my PC... 7 HDDs with 3 fans each...mmmm...toasty

Do you need to wear earplugs while using your PC?

LCD monitors don't produce enough heat to dry gloves properly (nor do they have a useful shelf for things on top)

[Madmax]

I dry my cloves on the Network equipment racks
(big layer 3 switchs give off a lot of heat)

[Blakamin]

Do you need to wear earplugs while using your PC?

LCD monitors don't produce enough heat to dry gloves properly (nor do they have a useful shelf for things on top)

nearly...loud speakers.... tried to sit here once with no music... drove me nuts!

[Pwalo]

Mine dry on my PC... 7 HDDs with 3 fans each...mmmm...toasty

I've got a laptop. Doesn't seem to work as well. Still nice to see all those Aucklanders moaning about rain for a change.

[vifferman]

I've got a laptop. Doesn't seem to work as well. Still nice to see all those Aucklanders moaning about rain for a change.

Mooing.

It's more sort of a mooing, than a moaning.
And if you reread all the posts, there was actually no moaning being done, at all at all. Or mooing.
The closest thing to a moan was a comment I made about my gloves sucking. Which could actually be construed as praise, by someone who thought having gloves of the vacuuminous kind to be a good thing, like for sucking up dirt, fluff, water, etcetetetera, or for sucking onto things.
I bet SpiderMan would like sucky gloves.

But in fact, it was a complaint. Orina (henceforth known as Urina) glubs are not very good, and I look forward to relegating them to not being worn by my ungoodly self ever again, at all, at all. (A wee cartoony thing of me bidding my Urina Glubs farenotatallwell).

[Hitcher]

Orina (henceforth known as Urina) glubs are not very good, and I look forward to relegating them to not being worn by my ungoodly self ever again, at all, at all.

What you need are the ones with the Nibo membrane. Mrs H rode to and from the Grand Challenge, and the Grand Challenge itself with one pair of gloves. Her Orina Nibos. Yes, she has heated grips but her gloves held up well. When you consider what the weather was like in some of the various places to which we excurted that weekend, you should be impressed!

I, on both hands, was twice let down by my Alpinestars with the dooberhickey membrane and my Technics Powerskin gloves. Sodden they were, and excessively so.

On Monday, on our return to Wellington, after a long wet and frigid ride down the Desert Road, I stopped at Waiouru and grabbed hold of the exhaust pipe on my bike in an effort to warm up my sodden and frozen paws. When Mrs H arrived I was largely invisible in a cloud of steam...

[Bonez]

Good stuff.... of course it was under controlled conditions eh??

you need a shinko...AND they dont stick in the wet!!!!!!

Any chance of
some links to back this up?

[Coldkiwi]

The water actually *pools* in my boot. It's rather unpleasant. I keep meaning to find some sort of siliconey goo that I can gob over the front o'it to keep the water out. I'm sure I've posted here and received sage advice about that before, but I only remember it on heavy-rain commuting days, so I keep forgetting to do anything about it on the weekends.

that phenomenon is quite familiar to me after the waikato ride. Rarely hapens with my road boots but the suede sides of my race boots seem to act like sponges/funnels all at once!

[Blakamin]

Any chance of
some links to back this up?

Ask Sparky Bills about the burnouts.... I was too busy trying to control my bike to take photos of the wet bit!

[Hitcher]

the suede sides of my race boots

Boots made of suede?? Multitudinous inappropriate comments pace precariously...

[Jackrat]

I just wear big green chemical resistant rubber gloves in the rain.
They go over my soft but not water proof leather gloves.
I hate wet hands.There is very little good about rain.

[Hitcher]

I just wear big green chemical resistant rubber gloves in the rain.
They go over my soft but not water proof leather gloves.
I hate wet hands.There is very little good about rain.

There were guys in the Grand Challenge who wore veterinary gloves. Oh how I laughed!! (He who leff loffs laffs lest!)

Where can I buy some??

[Jackrat]

There were guys in the Grand Challenge who wore veterinary gloves. Oh how I laughed!! (He who leff loffs laffs lest!)

Where can I buy some??

From your local Vet for theirs, from Protector Safty for mine.
I like mine,they wear very well and reach half way up your arm.

[Hitcher]

I like mine,they wear very well and reach half way up your arm.

They'd probably make a good veterinary glove! Have you got your AI practice certificate?