Feck me, there was some rain last night.....!!

[Chilli]

Absolutely chucked it down at about 17:00 on the way home. Flash floods left huge amounts of water on the road. I was loving it, had me feet out in front of me weaving in and out of the traffic...people must have thought I had lost it!! Good fun though and I didn't even have the waterproofs on!

Anyone else play in the rain last night??!!

[RemaL]

the weather was sunny and blue sky on the way back from work so I to a nice de tour on the way home 20 miles in the wrong direction. trying to make the most of it

[Chilli]

RemaL said:

the weather was sunny and blue sky on the way back from work so I to a nice de tour on the way home 20 miles in the wrong direction. trying to make the most of it

Loverly...... I'm guessing that you don't have to worry about a rush "hour" with 84 million vehicles all trying to kill you then??!!

[Andy OH]

I had a bit of aqua planing action on the M11 just coming off the A406 last night, my god was there some water on the roads last night.

[Leadfoot]

I wouldn't have called it fun, the hail was so heavy that it was stinging as it hit.

There must have been the best part of 6 inches of standing water on the M23!

Got to work dry as a bone - the wonders of goretex. Irony is that I rode home this morning in the sun & arrived wet, as I was wearing clothes still damp after being shut in the top box overnight.

[sjtscott]

I left just after 5:30pm last night from central london and the really heavy stuff had stopped by then. Luckily I've always got waterproof gear with me but just looking out my office window at between 4:30-5pm when the really heavy rain and thunderstorm was going on told me it wouldn't be fun. I've ridden before in rain so heavy that you get a bow wave off the front wheel, lucikly the profile of the front bike tyre means it aquaplanes far less than fat car tyres.
Rain really doesn't bother me anymore (apart from my visor leaking streams of water down the inside even when fully closed) along with soaking wet roads as modern road biased sports bike tyres are so good, basically if I can stay up on London's poorly surfaced potholed bumpy roads and avoid incidents with the 4 wheeled traffic then anything else outside of town is childs play.

[shot2bits]

I was in Wembley last night - respect to some of those bikers riding in and out of the traffic! I'd rather have been wet and on the bike than sat not moving for an hour in my Scenic.

[Wyvern971]

I got caught in that yesterday, while lost around trying to find my way from 1 office to another. Good thing I had waterproofs on.