jdtate101
Ex-Fatman
- Location
- Boring Birmingham
Went out for a normal 25mile ride at lunchtime and about 2/3rds of the way round the heavens opened in a BIG fashion. I've never seen raindrops that size before. Within 1 min the road was flooded and about 1-2inches deep. There was no shelter around, so I just got on with it with people in passing cars giving me strange looks as if to say "you must be mad". I wasn't going to get any wetter so why not carry on?
Was actually quite enjoyable but braking was very dodgy and soft, so I was going slower than normal. One bad side effect is that due to the depth of the surface water I couldn't see a very nasty pothole, struck it and burst the front tyre.
Upon inspection it had a 2cm gash in the wall so was utterly un-mendable. Anyway at this stage I was only 1/2mile from home so just walked it back.
Anyone else get soaked today??????
Was actually quite enjoyable but braking was very dodgy and soft, so I was going slower than normal. One bad side effect is that due to the depth of the surface water I couldn't see a very nasty pothole, struck it and burst the front tyre.
Upon inspection it had a 2cm gash in the wall so was utterly un-mendable. Anyway at this stage I was only 1/2mile from home so just walked it back.
Anyone else get soaked today??????