Why We Ride

Because it's raining and windy and miserable.

Don't get me wrong. All those reasons are can be used just as easily for not riding and curling up in bed. Or floor as the case may be.

Riding in the rain does not make it better. Sometimes I believe that if I give enough effort, the sun will shine through just for me. Sometimes that happens. Not always. Usually, it's still just as cloudy, just as windy, and just as rainy when I get home, and the only thing that's changed is that when I left I was clean and dry, and when I get back I am soaked to the bone and covered in mud.

Yeah. It's still crappy out. But somehow, after you ride in it, it's easier to deal with.