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Just ordered a paramo ciclo jacket on the back of @Roibeard's constant recommendation and the review from Fimm's friends on the other thread. Hope they're good, got a good deal from the paramo shop on ebay for a seconds jacket, stil twice the max I've spent on a jacket for anything!
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@Iain McR: SNAP! I too, have a Carter USM cycling cap.
Nobody explained Velominati rule 23 to Fruitbat, back in the day.
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"On Monday, the Aberdeenshire community of Braemar witnessed an air frost after the mercury dropped just below zero, at 0.1C."
I suspect they missed the minus sign but perhaps I also wonder exactly what temperature they consider to be zero.
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The miserable weather follows an unsettled Friday, during a water spout formed near the Isle of Scalpay in the Outer Hebrides.
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Tried my new paramo wet proof. It is heavy, easily as heavy as my heavy hill walking wet proof. it is warm, really warm, was cooking with a t shirt on this morning (about 9 c) frozen yesterday in my wind shell and a t-shirt yesterday (6c). My t was a little bit sweaty but not as bad as I would have been in my old wet proof and I'd still have been cold.
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@steveo - I think the Paramo Ciclo has the "Analogy Light" fabric?
They pitch the Analogy version for hill walking, and the Light version for more active use (cycling, running), but even then the Light version has much more insulation than a conventional shell.
It would be interesting to know your take after a season.
Robert
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@Roibeard, this is the light version be interested to see how much heavier the standard is.
I'm planning on wearing it when its cold or wet or a combination of the two. I'll report back in March once I've had a bit of time in it, hopefully be running again some point in the next few weeks though it will be very cold or very wet before I wear a jacket running.
One thing I meant to mention is the fit, Its a bit baggy in the arms and chest, fine on the shoulders and errm sporting round the long term food stores (tight round my overly large gut).
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West end of Melville Drive had a reasonably sizable puddle across the whole carriageway yesterday evening. I guess it should have gone down overnight.
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West end of Melville Drive had a reasonably sizable puddle across the whole carriageway yesterday evening. I guess it should have gone down overnight.
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The canal towpath was more puddle than path between the turn off for Calder Road and the WHEC last night. It is somewhat better this morning.
I forgot to report a massive puddle across the whole of the carriageway at Craighouse/Myreside Road one morning the other week - I took to the pavement to avoid it while drivers were cautiously fording through the middle and sloshing water everywhere, including onto the pavement.
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@jdanielp it was there again last night. I got very wet due to wash from the vehicles. Now reported.
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Severish weather on Sunday night's north boat. Motion was not compatible with work screens or indeed any eyeball to text action. Efforts to nap on bench seating hampered by bench's effort to pitch me onto the floor every fifth wave or so. Later, stomach was happier but fetching foods proved fraught. A mini wine bottle, a wine glass and a tumbler full of water all launched themselves off a stationary tray one after another. The wine glass did not make it. All this to an exciting accompaniment of regular cookware avalanche sounds from the galley. (You would think they'd have everything bungee'd down, really!)
Insult to injury: got in a bit late because weather (c.00:00), picked up bag from baggage cart, then discovered the Stagecoach shuttle into Kirkwall had bogged off about three minutes after we berthed. Apparently this is an Issue - they don't like waiting for passengers to collect their bags. Which given this service literally exists to meet the ferry seems... unhelpful? (Still, at least there IS a bus. Sometimes.)
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Stagecoach bad. Citylink took us back up from Uig to Portree to stay the night one time the ferry did not go due to weather. Vice versa - the ferry used to wait on the citylink arriving.
Snow in the hills today?
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Until the late 1990s it would have been a bus from JD Peace, the local operator. They would have waited.
Rapsons bought JD Peace in 1999 and the decline began, with Rapsons taken over by Stagecoach in 2008. Stagecoach notorious for deliberately sabotaging links with the Scrabster ferry from train station in Thurso: they want you to travel with them from Inversneggy. Makes less sense to do it with Stromness-Kirkwall though: shooting themselves in the foot. Maybe a grumpy driver at the end of a long shift?
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A mini wine bottle, a wine glass and a tumbler full of water all launched themselves off a stationary tray
Perhaps a larger bottle would have been more stable?
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i suspect a camelbak would have been the sensible choice.
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@Iain McR has the right of it here. Next time I will come prepared with a drinking bladder for decanting.
@Crowriver this is the bus from Hatston - supposed to go into Kirkwall, loop round town, then go over to Stromness where it terminates. (Wouldn't have been at all happy if I'd had to taxi it to Stromness after midnight...) If that grumpy about delayed ferries due to weather, not a rare occurrence, driver may be in wrong job?
JD Peace are still on the go as a car sales & hire firm.
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Stagecoach notorious for deliberately sabotaging links with the Scrabster ferry from train station in Thurso: they want you to travel with them from Inversneggy.
Yes, which is infuriating when coming up to Thurso on the train and needing to get to Scrabster - actually makes me determined never to use them instead of the train.
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Once upon a year, before bus deregulation, the bus sat at Thurso station waiting for happy passengers to embark and wend its way to Scrabster to connect to the ferry. But of course The Market is more efficient and would never try to undermine competing transport modes instead of working with them co-operatively.
As to your choppy crossing (Aberdeen-Kirkwall?) it could have been worse:
https://www.orcadian.co.uk/hamnavoe-makes-home-nearly-24-hours-sea/
I do remember heading to Orkney one Christmas on the old MV St Ola, and the waves in the Pentland Firth were literally coming over the bows and crashing thunderously against the forward cabin bulkhead and windows. Terrifying sums it up.
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Similar thing happened to the Aberdeen boat a few years ago, sat off Aberdeen for 19 hours in heavy seas and eventually had to head down to Rosyth...
A different 2017 incident sounds like your St Ola experience - https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2017/04/25/hrossey-returns-to-port-after-windows-smash/
I recall part of the forward bar was still cordoned off a month later.Posted 4 years ago # -
@Unhurt
a drinking bladder for decanting
why take the risk, just go with the integral tube option.
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Terrifying ride this morning. Even Slateford Rd was sparkly as I left at 6.30. Country roads sparkly, damp and crunchy at places. Joined A71 in Wilkieston as I figured it would be my best chance for staying upright. Westbound traffic wasn't too bad but the road wasn't gritted.
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Black Ice in the West. No gritting
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@bill - same here. Gogar Station Road a sheet of ice. Towpath icy in places, particularly that smooth bit by the police station.
At least one cycling colleague has come off (following driver stopped to check they were OK) and one driver with a desk near me slid into something too.
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