On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 12:08 -0700, Bill Gibson wrote: > > I've always thought the rain cape made sense, ever since I first saw > > Frank Patterson's drawings, in an old edition of Effective Cycling, > > but I've never used one. > > I have. They work wonderfully on upright bikes, not so much with drop > bars. > > > I've decided that it would be a sail in any > > wind or at an athletic speed > > That too. I live in Albuquerque, so what do I know about rain? Yet I have (very infrequently) used 3 different rain capes, and I can vouch that they do work, even in true southwestern gullywashers with howling winds, and they do work with drop bars (tho' prolly not as conveniently as on a bobby's bike). That is, the Carradice nylon cape I had didn't work well with drops since it was cut too short for forward arm extension, but the Ducksback and the cheap Campmor worked very well. I remember one epic commute home a couple of years ago when I got caught in a huge, huge downpour just as I alit (?) from the bus to ride the 5.5 miles home northward on the RG bike path. (To give you an idea of how hard it was raining: the road leading to my neighborhood flooded almost 3 feet deep -- over my knees, I kid you not -- in less than half an hour; I rode into it and stalled.) This downpour came with a huge, 30 mph headwind. I made it home in my Campmor at 12 mph on my Diamond Back Axis Team Fixie conversion, and that part of me above mid-thigh was fully dry. It was annoying to have to empty the pint-and-a-half that filled the valley between my arms, every few hundred yards. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
