I got caught in the rain when those afternoon/evening thunderstorms were rolling through the cities last Thursday. The entire way on 494 from 169 to 52 it was pouring. I ended up soaked from the waist down, and almost dry from the waist up. The good: No problems with fogging or anything thanks to the helmet vents. My scorpion jacket was great, almost nothing got through. Waterproof boots worked great (sort of). The bad: Gloves got soaked, but who cares, hands dry easily. It's the rest that sucked. I was wearing regular cargo pants so they got soaked through pretty much instantly. And while my boots were waterproof, there was so much water pouring down from my pants and down my legs that the boots filled up with water from the inside.

If I had just had waterproof pants, the only thing I could even have complained about was having wet hands.