Originally Posted by
waters60
Sounds like fun! You STARTED this ride @ 36 degrees and rain?!
Yes. That's randonneuring training in the PNW, what one sort of has to do. All of the riders in our local randonneuring club finished PBP the year they had all that steady rain. We've ridden in worse but had to bail when our rims got covered with ice and hard braking didn't generate enough heat to melt it. We drug our feet. I had to scratch the ice off my glasses with my fingernails. Yeah, we bailed about a mile from our house. A few riders did finish, but as single speed bikes. Their cassettes were balls of ice. Probably had disc brakes.
After that 75 mile rain ride, my wife made me vow to never start another ride in the rain when it was below 40°. It was a deal.