Originally Posted by toast3d

Don't ride your nice bikes in the rain. Get a rain bike. Rain bikes are cheap bikes that you don't care about ruining. Make sure to slap some plastic full size fenders on it. The fenders are there to protect you, not the bike. Beat the hell out of the bike all you want, just as long as it still works.

Rain bikes are fun. It's a game to see how long you can keep the thing going. It can teach you a lot about maintenance when you have a cheap beater bike to work on which you don't care about as much as your more expensive nicer bikes.