Using the bike on a daily basis...

[Mikkel]

I'm back to doing a responsible job, and I've been trying an experiment to see how practical it is to ride Scoot instead of using the cage. The cage has been very helpful in assisting me by breaking down at great expense, so it's banished to the workshop where people are thoughtfully reading Italian workshop manuals and frowning a lot with a little meter in the background that goes Kaching! every 15 minutes...

Buy a Toyota...

Last night was the worst, I grabbed a lid, braved the torrential rain, and spent a miserable time slip sliding around on rain soaked roads, cold and wet (in fairness my wets were already damp which wasn't a great start). I was cursing the fact that my eyesight was getting worse, turns out I'm a tool - in my haste to get out and about, I'd grabbed a lid with a tinted visor. Should have been obvious the moment I put my lid on, but I was hungry and in a rush.

Note to self, even slightly tinted visors are no good at night.

Good thing you're still here

Get a motard, slipping and sliding should be the natural state then
Also, what would be more awesome than to ride to work on Aprillia SVX 550, wearing an Armani suit? (There's even one for sale right now.)

[SPman]

I don't own a suit, refuse to wear a tie, if I'm involved in meetings, I just look like one of the builders and if "the Firm" don't like it, they haven't told me yet.
So - full leathers over whatever I'm wearing to work and Oxford oversuit over that if it's wet. If I look a bit "crinkled", well....do I actually give a stuff.......ahhh, it's great to be old and not actually care what others in the office think you should look like....the advantage of having "skills" in very short supply over here..
Speaking of Alfas (well, everyone else seems to be) - last car was a 72 Berlina 2000 - looked like a Lada but a bloody brilliant car on the road, espec with some suspension mods. And the engine was as strong as.... Shame about the sodding headlight/flasher/indicator switch assembly, which needed fixing/beating/abusing/replacing every year or so.....

[swbarnett]

All three pairs of gloves are on the drying rack as we speak.

Get yourself a pair of "Rain-Offs" over gloves. I bought a pair last week and there the best piece of rain gear I have ever owned.