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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.
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).
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.
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.
joie de vivre all gone, the rigours of the windy bridge loom murky and treacherous.
Once more unto the breach...
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.
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. :-(
Forgotten the number - rain which soaks through to your pants within 3 minutes of setting off.
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.
@Min, No.5 perhaps?
@Kirst, as the Dutch say, "You're not made of sugar!"
Kirst - I just got caught in the worst of that.
#17 -- while already soaked as soaked can be -- add the gratuitous on purpose lorry sweeping past hardcore drenching, requiring shut mouth to avoid drowning, and realise you weren't actually anywhere near as wet as wet could be, after all...
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.
Mmm
Having congratulated my self at missing such a damp commute with gratuitous holiday usage I was reminded we were going to the zoo today...
I apologise to any one who was soaked today on account of my angering The Rain Deity.
has it stopped raining yet?
got soaked 3 times yesterday, would have been six if i hadn't taken taxi and bus and declined an evening jog
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.
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.
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.
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.
very dampened twice today in morning and at lunch
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
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