I've been out all week in the rain and wearing far too little cos I'm still trying to look cool on the new 'Burg. I'm sure once the love affair cools I'll be wearing my ugliest waterproofs and sod the posing
One strange thing I found, this is my first ever "feet forward" bike and I'm enjoying the new position (new positions at MY age!), but as all my waterproof leggings are designed to go
over my boots, rain is being forced
up my legs past the seal. So I've had to resort to sitting properly with feet down in the squalls.
Hands get soaked too, absolutely no protection whatsoever. I'm seriously thinking about those MX type handguards, as I can't bear to spoil her looks with my tatty pvc and duct tape repaired hippo hands at the moment.
Abother little river seems to form at the very bottom of my crotch too on the occasions I've just kept ploughing on through hard rain in jeans, quite a stream (and no, it's not because of my age just yet) that seems to run down the seat from behind!!? I've noticed a lot of dead air re-circulation behind the windscreen, the usual thing with fairings where air in front of my chest is actually circulating
forwards and perhaps sucking the rain down there. Weird.
Has anyone bought or used one of those continental type rain covers, that make you look like a slalom canoist? They seem to be common in France and Italy but I'ver seen them much in use anywhere else.