http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Staying dry in rain: run or walk? en Sun, 31 May 2026 23:58:40 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7798#post-78784 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:04:11 +0000 ARobComp 78784@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Darkerside Wibble? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7798#post-78770 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:03:26 +0000 Darkerside 78770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Uberuce - the padded white jackets are also pleasingly water repellant. Might I suggest combining the katana with two pencils up the nostrils for maximum dryness reaped? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7798#post-78769 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:53:03 +0000 wingpig 78769@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"previous attempts to crack the thorny problem assumed people to be thin sheets or upright, rectangular boxes"</em></blockquote></p> <p>I assume someone somewhere has already spent ages working out the best speed for getting wind-cooling before the effort of achieving the greater speed results in more excess heating/sweating than the increasing speed's increasing wind-cooling is able to cope with. A colleague claimed to have worked out the optimal speed he needed to walk at on a hot day to get enough air-cooling to not sweat, but once when we walked to the mosque for lunch on a hot day at my normal walking speed he was visibly sweating his armpits off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7798#post-78768 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:46:42 +0000 Uberuce 78768@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything." - Hagakure</p> <p>And that's why I attack each drop of rain with a katana, and am frequently nice and dry in the back of a police car, all the way home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7798#post-78766 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:31:39 +0000 amir 78766@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18901072">"what is the optimal speed?"</a></p> <p>What about cycling? </p>