Rain!

[palinurus]

Really chucking it down here (Hemel Hempstead) at the moment, going to be a very wet ride home if it doesn't let up.

 

[Absinthe Minded]

Yeah, I almost didn't take the bike today after seeing the forecast for this evening. Scary.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

It's started here in Manchester... fortunately I'm in the car*... actually I quite enjoyed my commute home in the rain the other day - it seems faster and more fun due to having to be more cat-like with the reflexes etc.

Tis a bugger having to dry out all the kit though ready for the next day


* Not at this precise second though!

 

[snapper_37]

I love the rain - just hate head winds grrrr

 

[Bug]

+1, snapper.

I also don't like it when it's so heavy that water still manages to work its way under overshoes and you end up feeling water sloshing around your shoes.

I also don't like the fact that it makes me slow down. Not that going slowly helped me on Wednesday when I made a sub-walking-speed right-angle turn, front wheel went out from under me (smooth-brick block paving), next thing I know I'm looking at the sky. Grr!

 

[Danny]

It's been cold and very wet all day in York - fortunately I am working from home

 

[palinurus]

It's very on-off kind of rain at the moment. Absolute downpour- stops- absolute downpour etc. Soon I'll be home drinking beer and watching the tour.

 

[Absinthe Minded]

I love the rain - just hate head winds grrrr

Yeah, it's cool as long as you haven't been up since half five, and have 30 miles to ride before you get home from work!

 

[snapper_37]

Yeah, it's cool as long as you haven't been up since half five, and have 30 miles to ride before you get home from work!

I can go with the 5.30 a.m. but not the 30 mile ride home. Pheewwww!!!! *respect*

It's not really pissing down here yet so I'm hoping I can miss it. I notice how the wind has changed direction ..... from a tail wind into a head wind.

 

[beanzontoast]

Given a choice, no fun at all commuting in rain. It's naff when the summer turns out as rainy as the other seasons, don't you think? I mean, we deserve a few weeks each year of commuting without getting soaked!

 

[palinurus]

Yay! got away with it!

 

[Riding in Circles]

It has been dry all day here.

 

[Freewheeler]

Just a few specks of rain on the way home tonight. Made up for the rain this morning!

 

[fossyant]

Just missed the worst of it - went out fully proofed, for a little light drizzel - kept the pace down...didn't fancy boil in the bag.......

 

[Amanda P]

At five o'clock when I left work yesterday, it wasn't raining. At six o'clock when I left York, it wasn't raining. Just as I went into ScrewFix at six fifteen, it started raining. By the time I came out it was a monsoon. Two cycling police officers were trying to shelter under a bush, but the rain drops were so big that it wouldn't have made any difference. I waved through the downpour and they waved back.

At 6.45, while I was two miles from home, it stopped raining.

This morning, my cycling shoes were still damp. And it was raining again.