http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: flood rain - Recent Posts en Thu, 21 May 2026 22:58:16 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294&page=2#post-82991 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:22:17 +0000 ARobComp 82991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had the pleasure of driving to inverness for a meeting yesterday evening (I'm a sucker for horrible hours as I run my own company) so I got the joys of driving the A9 in alternating glorious sunshine and horrible showers. We got a bit of the lovely views up north but in general it was torrential rain or drizzle. Then on the way back it was fog and full beaming headlights once again reminding me that drivers really are lost in their own little tiny cocoon of "me against them". Good to see not a single lorry driver or professional driver forgot to dim their headlights though!</p> <p>Hope everyone dried out ok! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294&page=2#post-82990 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:05:03 +0000 Chimpofdoom 82990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for the welcome folks :-)</p> <p>Currently riding a cannondale badboy fatty 9 :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294&page=2#post-82983 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:27:24 +0000 crowriver 82983@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Are you suggesting that if you get wet it's your own fault?</em></p> <p>If we were all living in North Africa then it's fair enough to be surprised by a proper drenching. This is Scotland though, so yes it's your own darned fault! ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294&page=2#post-82978 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:01:57 +0000 DaveC 82978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi ChimpOfDoom,</p> <p>What yer ridin? (&lt;&lt; fake cool talkm - I'm really old) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294&page=2#post-82977 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:54:43 +0000 Min 82977@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi Chimpofdoom (I like the name), welcome to the forum. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294&page=2#post-82973 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:40:48 +0000 Chimpofdoom 82973@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well I waited at work for it to pass, but I gave up! Got drenched 5mins out of work, near Russell Road and even more of a drenching around the Edinburgh North Path.</p> <p>Typically as soon as I got to the shore, 5 mins from home.. it stopped.</p> <p>Oh and Hello, New member here :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294&page=2#post-82954 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:27:43 +0000 fimm 82954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh yes, that "waterproof" is a Halfords special. It keeps your body heat in better than non-waterproof... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82953 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:21:55 +0000 kaputnik 82953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I had my waterproof with me yesterday</em></p> <p>Me too, I was "prepared", but not for <em>that</em>. I think even my heavyweight Paramo would have let <em>that</em> rain through. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82951 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:14:15 +0000 wingpig 82951@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My waterproof is always in my bag, where it remains during heavy rain in anything except sub-zero-Celsius conditions. Yesterday's home-journey rain-precautions involved putting my phone in my waterproofish camera bag rather than my non-waterproof pocket. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82947 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:54:12 +0000 Min 82947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I never trust the weather forecast. It is too often wrong for that. </p> <p>I officially remounted my lights some time ago having officially removed them for summer. Since we haven't had a summer, they had to go back on. My waterproof lives in my pannier anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82946 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:53:40 +0000 Uberuce 82946@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The good burghers of Radio 4 warned me about the weather, so I packed my usual summer rain kit: overshoes, shorts, cycling top, and rode into work in my jeans and T-shirt. </p> <p>I missed the torrential downpour, but the P1's were walking up Comiston Road during the peak of it. Utterly soaked, but more amused than scared, with the exception of a couple that didn't care for the thunder.</p> <p>The light was just perfect coming down Spylaw Road at 6pm; gave the rain an eerie backlight, the kind of rain that Roy Batty's memories of the Tannhauser Gate could vanish into. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82945 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:50:10 +0000 Dave 82945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I feel like I was in a different Edinburgh yesterday ;-)</p> <p>Maybe coastal warmth down in Leith, and I've got going by the time I climb up to Blackford hill? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82943 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:41:58 +0000 steveo 82943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Plus it was <em>cold</em> rain. Even with my boil in the bag I felt a little on the cool side. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82938 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:32:16 +0000 fimm 82938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I</em> had my waterproof with me yesterday. I left the office in the rain, got very cold and wet within 5 minutes, thought "this is not fun" and 10 minutes later the sun came out, we had the brightest rainbow, it was lovely, and the cycle home was not nearly as bad as I'd feared! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82935 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:25:40 +0000 kaputnik 82935@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The rain was predicted</em></p> <p>Well, rain was predicted. Not neccessarily that particular rain! (BBCs 2 raindrop rain classification system clearly not up to the job of defining days like yesterday) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82932 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:11:16 +0000 cb 82932@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Does anyone here except me ever check the weather forecast before leaving the house? The rain was predicted..."</p> <p>Are you suggesting that if you get wet it's your own fault?<br /> Weather forecasters tend to tell you that the rain can't be predicted (very accurately) in weather like yesterday's. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82930 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:23:30 +0000 Dave 82930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I rode in the usual stuff yesterday and today - humvee shorts, SPD shoes (no covers or special socks), long sleeve top.</p> <p>When it's still this warm, I don't mind being wet (and the shoes don't take that long to dry - less than the time until the next commute). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82927 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:14:40 +0000 chdot 82927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rain is predicted for the current hour... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82926 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:09:23 +0000 crowriver 82926@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does anyone here except me ever check the weather forecast before leaving the house? The rain was predicted... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82924 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:59:04 +0000 DaveC 82924@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got throughly soaked on the cycle home too. Had to resort to 'heating' to get my shoes dry. Taking no chances today, full waterproofs though I am a tad warm. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82917 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:26:54 +0000 chdot 82917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/7888047906/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8039/7888047906_4ebff6de6a.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/7888047906/">Hat for rain</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82892 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:20:33 +0000 lionfish 82892@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>minimoth has arrived home "soaked to the knickers" apparently.</p> <p>I'm going to keep working in the library until it stops.... ... which seems to be taking a long time ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82889 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:11:50 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 82889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Booo! I was in a meeting on the ground floor with a teeny window when the lightning arrived - my desk on the 7th floor would have had some wonderful views!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82887 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:17:59 +0000 Snowy 82887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was once on a guided biking and canoeing tour of the Dordogne* where the guide insisted that the sound of thunder travelled at 5 miles per second! Needless to say that once the flash and the bang were less than a second apart, we got off the water smartish and left him to it...</p> <p>*thunderstorms every day for a week, if you like that sort of thing </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82883 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:24:20 +0000 DaveC 82883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was always told 'one mile in one second, but this was in the days before the calulator.</p> <p>ref too wiki on speed of sound... oh yeh I see that now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82880 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:00:17 +0000 fimm 82880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@lionfish <em>Am I the only person who instinctively starts counting after the flash?</em><br /> No, I do that too.<br /> Merely raining in Livingston now. However examination of the Met office rainfall radar indicates that that information is of no use to persons to the East of me, as the weather is in fact moving from south to north. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82879 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:46:24 +0000 lionfish 82879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Luckily hiding in library cafe - nice place to be to look out at the rain and lightning!</p> <p>Am I the only person who instinctively starts counting after the flash... 2...3...Boom...</p> <p>"about one kilometer in three seconds"<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82878 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:45:37 +0000 steveo 82878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Hoorah for recently-fitted dynolights.</em></p> <p>I had similar thoughts, the pain of the single speed this morning may well pay off this evening. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82877 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:44:26 +0000 DaveC 82877@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye persisting it down here i St Andrew Sq, Hail and HEAVY RAIN, lightening and thunder. Might just have to get the bus home if it keeps up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8294#post-82876 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:39:28 +0000 wingpig 82876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Flash and rumbles around the Lothian Road area, too. Possibly the same ones. Can hear the splashing of vehicles outside. Hoorah for recently-fitted dynolights.<br /> RUMBLERUMBLE. </p>