It's got to be a better option that riding into that maelstrom out there...
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Posted 12 years ago #
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I like a good storm. Because I know it's "only" 6.5 miles and "only" going to take about half an hour, I'm actually quite looking forward to the adventure :)
Posted 12 years ago # -
It does look nasty doesn't it? My boyfriend and 100-odd other nutters are due to start running from Milngavie to Fort William at 1am on Saturday morning. I really, really hope this has cleared up a bit by then...
Posted 12 years ago # -
Out board and snorkel fitted to the single speed. Bring it!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Normally I'd be with you on that, but I've got to stop at a shop on the way back for some provisions, and wandering soggy round a supermarket isn't appealing.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Rain or not, I'm looking forward to cycling home past Royal Highland Show gridlock. And it's a tailwind.
Posted 12 years ago # -
A specific shop or any shop? You could scuttle to one near work with a borrowed brolly so that you don't have to do the whole chaining-whilst-raining thing, though it is immense fun to, as kaputnik says, get thoroughly bedrookited in the knowledge of it being only temporary and (despite the rain and general lack of jetstream at the moment) it still being relatively warm.
Posted 12 years ago # -
when it's nice, I sometimes head down to Leith to meet minimoth on her cycle home from work (up the WoL).
Maybe I'll do it today...! ('forward, to the adventure!')
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ach, the commute is fairly short for most folk. Nice warm bath/shower when you get home, slippers on, relax. Nae bother.
On the other hand, pity the poor souls about to start the Mille Alba audax event this weekend...
Posted 12 years ago # -
Mind you, my wee pootley 3 speed folder was the only bike in the bike shed at work this morning*. Still the only one there, just checked. It's summer, precious few students around and not many staff either. Normally at least half a dozen cycles in evidence even so. Must be the torrential downpour then.
Also spotted a rather optimistic chair looking a bit forlorn on a very wet balcony the other side of Perth Road. Dinner in the open air? Maybe not.
* - there are a few other sheds, so maybe just mine was quiet.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Sorry, I normally quite enjoy riding in the rain. But this rain, into this headwind, in mid-June I grudge, resent and generally disapprove of. This time of year one shouldn't be needing to think 'hot shower, slippers (pipe?)' on reaching home turf.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@crowriver. my bike's parked in the rain :/ ah well, hopefully this will get it clean!
@kaputnik: I didn't cycle down to meet minimoth in leith: minimoth has decided to go back home by bus! is that allowed?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Arf. As fate would have it, much the same thought occurred to me this lunchtime as I left the flat for the school. Not because of the epic 8 minute cycle back, but because I'd just realised I'd left my keys in the flat again.
And my sister/flatmate was back up to our folk's house for meetings in Aberdeen.
And we'd never got round to giving our spare set of keys back to the friends that live nearby.
It was therefore something of a relief when my sister phoned back to remind me that she'd never said her meeting was out of town, just followed by a dinner which would finish late, and that she was coming round to the school with my keys.
Posted 12 years ago # -
That Mille Scotland audax at 1 pence entry is good value, particularly per kilometre. Seems to go backfred forth to fordell firs - same chap organising as the epic sunny mull it over that kaps and dave did a coupla Easters back? Not certain about that.
Rain behind due to easterlies was gentle and cleansing, bit dark tho. The midsummer party at Jupiter art land with magic, cocktails and canapés would have been worth going to as manycocktails would be gong a begging but drunk in charge of bicycle iwas a £20 fine back in the day
Posted 12 years ago # -
Before you wine about a 20 minute ride in the rain spare a thought for those of us who work outside all year round. Be assured when you are sitting behind a window looking at a gloriously sunny weekday, we are thinking of you too :) keeps me dry.
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