Crankarm
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Milder weather can't come soon enough AFAIAC. Good riddance to ice and snow.
It's Almost Over
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MisterStan
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Can I remind you of something please?
http://www.cyclechat.net/index.php?...-snows-and-snows-this-winter-.........115620/
Supersuperleeds
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- Leicester
No snow here overnight, so me being the bright spark that I am decide to switch the ice tyres back to normal. Found out why I was struggling last week, back brake is sticking. Easy I can fix that, I think, nope make it worse. Never mind LBS will sort it for me, disable the back brake so the wheel will spin, jump on the bike and away I go. Second corner off on the ice, get up, front wheel won't spin.
Walk to the LBS for them to tell me the new forks they put on a couple of weeks ago are bent. Politely suggest they contact the manufacturer then as they should survive more than one slow speed off. Now bike less until they get it fixed
Walk to the LBS for them to tell me the new forks they put on a couple of weeks ago are bent. Politely suggest they contact the manufacturer then as they should survive more than one slow speed off. Now bike less until they get it fixed
AndyRM
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Clamped.
Cheers for the tundra BSRU!
Cheers for the tundra BSRU!
No snow here overnight, so me being the bright spark that I am decide to switch the ice tyres back to normal. Found out why I was struggling last week, back brake is sticking. Easy I can fix that, I think, nope make it worse. Never mind LBS will sort it for me, disable the back brake so the wheel will spin, jump on the bike and away I go. Second corner off on the ice, get up, front wheel won't spin.
Walk to the LBS for them to tell me the new forks they put on a couple of weeks ago are bent. Politely suggest they contact the manufacturer then as they should survive more than one slow speed off. Now bike less until they get it fixed
What are your lottery numbers for tonight?
glenn forger
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It's proper thawing in the East of England, the back roads are still slushy but you can hear it running off rooves. Roofs.
A fact, not an excuse. No I haven't worked for the Met Office, have applied several times in the past but never been successful.
1. So why the reference to the woman from Portsmouth? I, and most others who saw that forecast, were under the impression he was referring to the UK. Even Mr. Fish makes no mention of Florida in this interview last year.
2. Splitting hairs a bit here are you not? The wind strength was enough to make it a hurricane, but by definition a hurricane is a TROPICAL cyclone and therefore cannot occur outwith the tropics.
3. Then they should let us know the full facts and tell us that they are in effect, guessing.
4. Weather prediction has advanced in the last 25 years?
1. The mother of that woman was holidaying in Florida at the time and so she contacted someone, may have been at the Met Office, I'm not sure, inquiring as to whether hurricane Floyd was likely to affect the area where her mother was.
2. Maybe, but like "road tax" it is one of those things I feel that needs to be clarified, otherwise you end up with the media diatribe of "hurricane sweeps across UK" just because two coastal stations recorded an 80 mph gust.
3. They do tend to state now when there is low confidence in the forecasts, if they didn't do that back then then that represents an improvement in communication to the public.
4. Sticking smilies in your sentence does not make your statement fact. I have no idea who predicted a long hot summer in 2012 but it certainly wasn't the Met Office, they stopped doing seasonal forecasts a couple of years ago. Statements like that often come from private organisations, who can afford to make sensationalist statements in the knowledge that they can hide away if the forecast goes wrong (since people will assume the Met Office made the forecast) and then claim superiority if it happens to be right. In any sense, seasonal forecasting is a whole different ball game to the short range weather prediction out to a few days.
Hip Priest
Veteran
Just been out for a drive on some local country lanes, and couldn't help but notice the vast array of new potholes! I'm going to need a cyclocross bike.
r80
Active Member
I couldn't see the potholes for the rivers yesterday.
