In an heavy raining day

[cyclingovereurope]

Often, during a long cycling trip we are forced to take a tough decision, that fights with our spirit of adventure...

 

[summerdays]

Only done it once and I kept going through the rain though it was a bit miserable.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Keep going till you reach your accommodation, I don't do camping.
One could have a wee break, surely the rain will ease.

 

[steve50]

Didn't vote becuase you didn't state time of year, if summer time i would keep on riding but if winter I might well get the train

 

[Spinney]

Keep going. I do 'credit card' tours (i.e. I've booked my accommodation), so if I don't keep going the whole plan is messed up.
Worst rain was the hilly day of the C2C!

Edit: should have said, there were no stations nearer than the place I was aiming for, and even if there was, it would probably not have been possible to get to my next destination without touring the entire north of England!

 

[User32269]

Legs burning. Freezing rain lashing you. Hypothermia creeping in. Grinding through last 10 hellish miles. Wondering why you CHOOSE to put yourself through this.
When your dry, pint in hand, all you think about is tomorrows route...its an illness!!

 

[Mrs M]

I would get the train .
No point risking catching a cold and spoiling rest of trip .

 

[Dogtrousers]

I voted continue riding. But @StuAff @flyingdodo and I bailed out of a very cold, wet January night ride to Bognor. But apart from that one ... I just put my rain jacket on and ride.

Edit: I didn't read the " multi stage" bit. I've never been in the situation on tour of having both rain and a handy train service.

 

[vernon]

And if the nearest railway station is forty miles away and your destination, thirty?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

We just carried on cycling it it started whilst we were cycling, no matter what time of year it was.

But, if it was raining when we woke up we would have an hours lie in (we only camp), then we would try again. We only ever had a 2 hour lie in unless it was seriously bad rain. In 12 months on the road we only ever stayed put two or the times, once during the tail end of a hurricane!

 

[Dave Davenport]

Finish early and find a bar.

 

[steveindenmark]

If it is of biblical proportions we have been known to cut our day short and get into a hotel or B&B until the following morning. Its not a bad thing as you can relax and get all your gear sorted and dried. Eat and sleep and maybe even service your bike.

But usually we just carry on. We have good wet weather gear.

 

[NickWi]

It's the highs & the lows you remember though.

I've had holidays I can barely remember because, well nothing significant happened. The sun shone, the sky was blue and everything went to plan. But the time my sun roof got stuck open and it was due to snow that night, Calmac cancelling the ferry because the storm was too bad or turning up at a Hotel we'd book over the phone just because it was on the route we were going only to discover it was a small Chateau and the chef was listed in the top 50 of France. These are the things you remember.

 

[Smurfy]

Depends a lot on personal circumstances and time of year. Packing a tent up in the rain is different to heading out to another hostel where you can dry off. And winter rain can be hugely different from summer rain.

 

[Ian H]

Several of us did stop briefly on this year's Paris-Brest-Paris, when the rain got so heavy it was difficult to see cars through the spray. We waited in a barn and had a pleasantly multi-lingual conversation for 15 minutes.