A3simon said:
course it can be i never said riding flat out did i. You can make the same smooth progress along a road in wet as in the dry
Smooth progress yeah,but everything will still be done more gingerly than in the dry,unless the rider is a total puff in the dry that is !
You'd have to be a right weirdo to be braking,leaning and powering out at the same points,wet or dry.
I can ride around getting my knee down with impunity in the dry,but the only time I've done it in the wet is on a track,with wets on,and even then I was hanging off the side of the bike like passengers on the last train to Mumbai.
Even world class riders hate the rain.
I remember chatting to Niall MacKenzie years ago and even he said it was a lottery,with the results usually being a case of 'who stayed on longest' !
My best result was in the rain though (second and fastest lap),but I still hated it with a passion...
Misty glasses,misty visors,tippy-toe lean angles,little twitches,OOOH that was close.....god when will this race end....meh...