http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Rain Deity en Sun, 31 May 2026 22:32:37 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-70181 Fri, 11 May 2012 20:24:59 +0000 gembo 70181@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>very dampened twice today in morning and at lunch</p> <p>late afternoon thought sun came out, got shorts on to cycle to office. soaked. dried stuff on radiator, came home in aldi rain jacket and EBC shorts didn't get drookit </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-70178 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:47:27 +0000 crowriver 70178@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well I've been out on the bike most of the afternoon and it didn't stop raining once. It was light drizzle when No.1 son (on tagalong) and I set off. Soon turned to moderately heavy rain, then stayed like that for about two and a half hours. Actually great fun cycling around on errands, except the west end where traffic was intense, not very nice. </p> <p>Checked out the quality bike corridor from the Bike Station back into town. Actually not bad, nice and smooth and reasonably wide. Two bad spots with idiots parking/waiting in the bike lane: four cars outside the supermarket on the corner of Causewayside, and two just outside the new Informatics building. </p> <p>About 4.30pm it started absolutely bucketing down, just as we wer emerging from Filmhouse cafe. Somehow while loading the panniers the pavement turned into a small weir and I noticed my left foot was suddenly soaking wet. We headed up Jonston Terrace, which was like a small river, and then (slowly) down the Royal Mile: cobbly cobbly cobbly. Thankful for the traffic calming there in that weather though.</p> <p>The wall of water slackened off a bit by the time we hit Abbey Street. Coming back along London Road we pulled up alongside a cyclist whose only concession to the weather was a hi-viz tabard. Bareheaded, long sleeved t-shirt, jeans. "Lovely day for it." I quipped from under my waterproofs. "Och, I like the rain. We've just had to much blazing sunshine lately" came the surpisingly dry reply. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-70145 Fri, 11 May 2012 13:56:40 +0000 gembo 70145@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>has it stopped raining yet?</p> <p>got soaked 3 times yesterday, would have been six if i hadn't taken taxi and bus and declined an evening jog </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-70028 Thu, 10 May 2012 23:10:30 +0000 steveo 70028@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Having congratulated my self at missing such a damp commute with gratuitous holiday usage I was reminded we were going to the zoo today... </p> <p>I apologise to any one who was soaked today on account of my angering The Rain Deity. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-70027 Thu, 10 May 2012 22:59:35 +0000 chdot 70027@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mmm</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/7173247102/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8007/7173247102_48555949f3.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-70009 Thu, 10 May 2012 19:57:29 +0000 Uberuce 70009@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At the risk of tempting fate, I think I've finally cracked it with regard to the sweat/rain balance. With my lower half unusually insulated, it falls to my top half to act as the heat sink, and judging by the fearsome shade of pink my bare arms achieved, it did that duty with aplomb. I am full of praise for my Altura overbreeks and TBC's goretex overshoes, which kept my sub-belt apparel drier than it had any right to be. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-70000 Thu, 10 May 2012 18:46:33 +0000 minus six 70000@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>#17 -- while already soaked as soaked can be -- add the <em>gratuitous on purpose lorry sweeping past hardcore drenching</em>, requiring shut mouth to avoid drowning, and realise you weren't actually anywhere near as wet as wet could be, after all... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69994 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:45 +0000 Zenfrozt 69994@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kirst - I just got caught in the worst of that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69988 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:33:22 +0000 crowriver 69988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Min, No.5 perhaps?<br /> @Kirst, as the Dutch say, "You're not made of sugar!" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69981 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:06:20 +0000 Kirst 69981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm sitting on the first floor of Waverley Court and would like to announce No 12 - rain you're looking at through a window while you consider just sleeping under the desk tonight because you don't want to go out into it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69979 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:04:11 +0000 Min 69979@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got soaked through cycling to the train station. Am now contemplating a whole evening spent in wet clothes in a pub which, last time I was there was air-conditioned to within an inch of its (and my) life. In November. :-(</p> <p>Forgotten the number - rain which soaks through to your pants within 3 minutes of setting off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69976 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:59:10 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 69976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I keep thinking it looks like it's brightening up. But no. No it's not. I'm going to have the lights on the bike at this rate. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69939 Thu, 10 May 2012 15:21:57 +0000 minus six 69939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>joie de vivre</em> all gone, the rigours of the windy bridge loom murky and treacherous. </p> <p>Once more unto the breach... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69857 Thu, 10 May 2012 11:48:02 +0000 crowriver 69857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nowhere near as bad as I feared. Maybe I missed the worst of it, but it was fine. Air nice and fresh after being cleaned by the rain. Exactly the same weather in Dundee. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69796 Thu, 10 May 2012 09:20:50 +0000 Uberuce 69796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Presumably doing the reverse of me? Shirt and tie under the waterproofs, with his breeks hanging up in the office and shiny shoes under the desk. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447&page=2#post-69794 Thu, 10 May 2012 09:08:03 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 69794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep, not as bad as I'd expected on my route (this may be because I had a tailwind). Normal clobber, with added waterproof jacket.</p> <p>Was rather confused by the chap I kept passing going up Lothian Road (he filtered where I felt it unsafe to do) in totally waterproofed top half, but beach shorts and trainers on lower half (and no 'guards). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69792 Thu, 10 May 2012 08:43:22 +0000 crowriver 69792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm going for the jacket/trews combo. Just about to head out, I may be some time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69791 Thu, 10 May 2012 08:40:50 +0000 Instography 69791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Waterproof jacket over usual clobber and moved up from level 2 to level 3 gloves. It's just a wee bit of drizzle. Maybe it'll become proper rain later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69789 Thu, 10 May 2012 08:35:40 +0000 Uberuce 69789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I went for waterproofs over jeans and shoes on my leggywegs, meanwhile on my top half I had yesterday's T-shirt and stowed today's in the bag.</p> <p>It's quicker to remove the overbreeks than to change from shorts, and the rain just about cools me down enough that the double layer on my legs isn't a problem. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69783 Thu, 10 May 2012 08:12:36 +0000 Darkerside 69783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, that wasn't so bad. Fairly mild, fairly dry, fairly calm.</p> <p>Your experience may differ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69780 Thu, 10 May 2012 07:49:27 +0000 chdot 69780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Be prepared, take alternative transport or stay at home??</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/7169337796/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7169337796_d4bba6e3f5.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/7169365948/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7169365948_5ee4e45e17.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69749 Wed, 09 May 2012 19:42:35 +0000 crowriver 69749@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Crikey! 23mph winds? That's the rain cape out then. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69735 Wed, 09 May 2012 17:32:31 +0000 Darkerside 69735@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It does look somewhat damp tomorrow... Might break out the winter tights for the day </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69733 Wed, 09 May 2012 17:18:30 +0000 minus six 69733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>there is a lot to be said for experiencing what the world throws at you. It gives you a real sense of the change in seasons</em></p> <p>So mote it be ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69698 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:13:04 +0000 cb 69698@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I was conviced that someone was going to pick me up on the use of "goretex" to denote waterproof. I wasn't expecting the numbering thing at all. "</p> <p>Yes, I was shocked. It is, of course, "GORE-TEX®". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69694 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:03:09 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 69694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>surely i'm not the only one who revels in the moment when the rainstorm commute grimace gives way to maniacal laughter and a complete surrender to the power of the elements</em>"</p> <p>Not at all Bax, wrote <a href="http://www.citycycling.co.uk/Volume1/issue16/issue16page19.html">this</a> about 5 years ago.</p> <p>But to be honest, I'd kinda like to have a bit of spring and then summer sometime soon... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69686 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:19:22 +0000 minus six 69686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>a good pair of overshoes, a decent cap, and new brake blocks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69683 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:14:59 +0000 crowriver 69683@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actually as long as you have your waterproofs/rain cape on in time, heavy rain is no problem. If you get wet and then cold, it is horrible.</p> <p>*Ponders whether to wear rain jacket/trousers the morn or rain cape* </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69680 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:00:35 +0000 minus six 69680@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>surely i'm not the only one who revels in the moment when the rainstorm commute grimace gives way to maniacal laughter and a complete surrender to the power of the elements. </p> <p>good character building stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6447#post-69678 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:55:46 +0000 steveo 69678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm think NZ earlier than planned! I'm meant to be at the zoo tomorrow!! :( </p>