Wasn't quite expecting that.
Met Office saying "sunny intervals" until 3, then "heavy rain"!
Lunch time meeting, got back a bit soaked.
Various drains overloaded (as usual).
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Commuting
Wet (and windy)
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Wind looks to have really got up since this morning.
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Strava home FTKOM...
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I always find that Wunderground tend to be more accurate than the Met Office
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Another recommendation for wunderground. Also raintoday lets you watch an approaching rainstorm and guess roughly when it's going to hit.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Yes, another fabulous winter's day in Edinburgh!! It is set to continue to be windy, and very windy on Wednesday, oh joy! Utterly fed up and sick and tired of the depressing rubbish weather. Whatever happened to cold, sharp, sunny winter's days?
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Whatever happened to cold, sharp, sunny winter's days?
that's called summer ;)
Posted 11 years ago # -
@ Kaputnik...very drole!
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That commute was a very good advertisement for not commuting in your office clothes. I got quite wet.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I've now got the winter tyres on the mtb. So wet, windy and mild weather for the rest of the winter (& year)
Posted 11 years ago # -
Don't worry, Amir. I made such a pig's ear of recabling my brakes on wintersaurus that I need* to get another set of inners and do it properly tomorrow, so I'll be on the Croix or MTBeam. This probably guarantees an unforecast frost starting shortly after I go to bed.
*cropped the cable too short so there's only ~1cm poking out from the clamp. Gut instinct tells me that if the brake cable is going to slip, all the important action happens within the first 1-2mm of travel, so 10mm extra might as well be a yard. But guts are for digestion, and I'm not risking the front brake going AWOL when I can just ride another bike for the day instead.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I got quite wet.
Me too. I set out just before 6pm and had a fairly wind assisted spin across to Marchmont, but the rain was incredible. There were some big puddles that required riding around, and halfway there I had to put my glasses in my pocket because they were covered in rain and misted up every time I stopped, and eyeballs full of rain was marginally better. Went for a quick drink with Laid Back and then dinner at Fountain Park with a friend, so I was mostly dry by the time I cycled home (except for hands and feet, which were freezing!).
Posted 11 years ago # -
Brompton today for multi-modability and certainty of getting on train-ness.
Had a hugely fast spin down to the station (no computer but it was more than spinning out in top and the car behind me in the 30 zone was content to stay there!) Which doesn't bode well for the trip back up the hill tonight :-/ maybe the wind will swing through 180deg though...Posted 11 years ago # -
Shoes still wet from last night. Gah!
Posted 11 years ago # -
@smudge, if forecast correct And I took a half day then the wind would blow me to work and blow me home
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When I went back out later to go swimming I put on full waterproofs and extra hi-vis etc - and then it was just raining a bit (though quite windy) and we got a lift home (I know)... then my poor boyfriend realised he'd left something important at the Commie and had to cycle all the way back to get it.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Found it really difficult to spot potholes on the way home last night (dark + heavy rain is a bad combination). Hit a couple of crackers on the way... Perhaps not too surprising I found a front wheel puncture/ full flat this morning, grumble, grumble...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Both the temperature and wind have come up over the last hour or so. Pity me on my return commute - 5 miles south against a 30 mph southerly :(
Posted 11 years ago # -
Well Colinton to Haymarket was fast and easy, the hill up to my house will be a choice of boil in the bag or get rained on...on balance I'm erring towards losing some waterproofs in the near future and just egtting wet.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Hmmmm. Met Office reckons South-Westerly. I'm hoping for more of the 'westerly' side of that to make getting home easier. Though I could route-choose to make the most of any possible push. At the very least I'm on a bike with 'guards today unlike yesterday.
Posted 11 years ago # -
After getting blown backwards on the Paper Bicycle I had to give up and swapped back to the semi low racer.
So much easier although I feel guilty as struggling into wind is character building and part of cycling tradition!
Upright riders always say that any energy loss into a headwind is made up by a tailwind (but these benefit low bikes too) .
In this way I think that regular upright cycling could be a bit like sailing - whatever you ride it's often just as wet. Better than walking though!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Okay, given that I average the same speed, do I get wetter on my 'bent, or an upright, in the same rain?
Posted 11 years ago # -
I like the recliner when there are big puddles because my feet don't get sprayed. The downside is that your viewing angle on severe potholes is less - one thing improved with a decent light to see and be seen
I find that uprights with discs spray water onto my left shoe in the rain. Upper body does get wetter though.
From a non-cyclists point of view all bikes are bad in wet weather although I'd rather quickly cycle than trudge through rain or wait for a bus once soaked.
One forumer has a trike with a 'Streamer' fairing. He says it's good although makes trike wider to move through doors.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Took long way round tonight as windy, couldn't be bothered changing out of work clothes either. Got soaked. Not cold tho
Posted 11 years ago # -
Last night was better than the night before - windier but, when I was going home, I was spared the lashing rain. Hoping (but not expecting) that it'll calm down before this evening.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Note to self; must keep spare underpants at work.
Going commando now due to real soaking on the way in.Posted 11 years ago # -
I think I must have picked up your note, tammytroot, since I remembered to pack spare punders. I did, however neglect my left bum cheek while drying myself with paper towel in the Mother'n'Baby room at work, so note to self: if you're towelling after the rain, be sure to make a complete arse of it.
(Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week; don't try the veal since I don't approve.)
NB: no mothers or babies were harmed in the making of this post. Pretty sure no mothers or babies have ever used that room, come to think of it.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I got thoroughly drenched this morning. Probably the worst so far this year for proper, heavy, pinging-off-the-bell-on-the-bars rain.
For the gamers lurking within this parish, if you remember the 'Hard Rain' level in Left 4 Dead 2, it was just like that.
Albeit with fewer zombies.
Posted 11 years ago # -
For once my timing was perfect as I was just unlocking the door at work when the rain started stoating off the roof :-)
Not convinced this evenings commute will work as well though ;-s
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