I had to ride home in a severe downpour on the Blast last week. Some water got some place it shouldn't because when I turned off the high beams the high beam indicator stayed partly lit. Looks like the bike doesn't like weather heavier than a light rain. Thankfully I usually equip myself with water resistant phones or that would have gotten ruined.
I could respond to every one of you, but then you'd all have to read it, lol.
Yeah, I buy covers for my phones and I have a extremely water resistant back pack. My notebook (paper version) got a bit damp when I hit a wall of rain, but all my electronics, laptop included, survived.
I REALLY needed to de-stress from studying for a final so off I went to college for an hour ride. The rain came down so hard that I thought I was swimming in it. It sure looked the same as going for a deep dive in a swimming pool except that somehow I could breathe. I actually had to stop and check if I could breathe because my eyes were telling me that I was back learning how to swim as a 5 year old and I didn't trust yet that I'd make it back to air, even though I had every other time I took a dive.
I checked the weather. How could I be this wrong? From then on, I check the weather daily for where I live, where I'm going an hour away and halfway in between. THAT weather report would have saved me. The one in the middle.
I pulled over under an underpass, and waited it out, terrified of the weather and what would become of my final exam. Thank goodness on an important day like this, I had an extra pair of water resistant pants (no time to put it on, just got hit, but I least I could change). I had a rain coat.
And, I really enjoyed the waterfall next to me under the water pass. I had just enough space to only get some of that watery blast after it bounced!
Cell phone was damp, but okay. It went out of my pants and into the water resistant back pack.
Going home was 10 times worse a few days earlier, so thank goodness for a huge mercy that day. What didn't survive? My chain. I'm pretty sure ALL the oil washed out and even though I of course re-lubed it afterwards, that just wasn't enough, lol.