Fair weather riders...

[Steve_M]

Do you all live in the East?

 

 

[Bender]

We have flooding but generally speaking we get off very lightly and we know it  

 

Often get huge storms smacking into the west but by time it gets through the lakes and Cumbria it fizzles out.

[Stu]

I was only saying to the wife earlier that I haven't seen rain for ages and the soil in the garden is dry as hell  

[Steve_M]

Just now, Bender said:

We have flooding but generally speaking we get off very lightly and we know it  

 

Often get huge storms smacking into the west but by time it gets through the lakes and Cumbria it fizzles out.

I should have mentioned that I lived in Norfolk for 30years, only recently moved North. I appear to have moved to an oasis of lower rainfall (is that a thing? A drier oasis?) 

[Steve_M]

Just now, Stu said:

I was only saying to the wife earlier that I haven't seen rain for ages and the soil in the garden is dry as hell  

It’s been dry here for a while. Making up for it at the moment, mind.

[Stu]

Just now, Steve_M said:

It’s been dry here for a while. Making up for it at the moment, mind.

 

Shame its not been very warm though 

[Gerontious]

Weather is totally messed up and has been for years. One years sample is absolutely worthless. 

[Bender]

4 minutes ago, Gerontious said:

Weather is totally messed up and has been for years. One years sample is absolutely worthless. 

Probably, but over this neck of the woods its fairly consistent for the 50odd yrs I can remember.

 

Our weather is worse when it comes down and off the north Sea which luckily dosen't happen often.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

The rainfall round here is why I need two bikes. Most of the time the roads are either covered in mud (summer and autumn), or mud plus salt (winter and spring). I need a trusty hack for 90% of the time.

 

Yesterday was a rare exception. Lots of salt on the roads but it was dry. So I took the Bobber and hoped it wouldn't rain. I got away with it, though it was on the chilly side.

[dynax]

Looking out the window this morning it appears we had rain overnight

[Steve_M]

10 hours ago, Gerontious said:

Weather is totally messed up and has been for years. One years sample is absolutely worthless. 

As a sample it does appear to illustrate the principle that I was taught by Dicky Dash (my geography teacher) at school. Warm, damp air blown in from the west rises over high ground, chills and precipitates on the hills. It also explains why we needed waterproofs more often when walking the Lakeland fells than around Norfolk over the last 25 yrs. 

[Bianco2564]

39 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

The rainfall round here is why I need two bikes. Most of the time the roads are either covered in mud (summer and autumn), or mud plus salt (winter and spring). I need a trusty hack for 90% of the time.

 

Yesterday was a rare exception. Lots of salt on the roads but it was dry. So I took the Bobber and hoped it wouldn't rain. I got away with it, though it was on the chilly side.

Same here, the whole reason I bought the silverwing.

I've done 3000 miles on it since the MOT last September , compare that to probably a couple of hundred on the R1in that time which I also haven't ridden since November .

 

[skyrider]

12 hours ago, Gerontious said:

Weather is totally messed up and has been for years. One years sample is absolutely worthless. 

over the years the seasons seem to be changing, a lot of years ago we had cold snowy winters and hot summers now we just have crap all the way through 

[manxie49]

It feels like it's always raining here .... I only know summers arrived because the rain gets warmer! 

[Six30]

Damn right im a fair weather rider ...any other sort of rider is a twat .

[Steve_M]

56 minutes ago, Six30 said:

Damn right im a fair weather rider ...any other sort of rider is a twat .

Don’t tour...

[S-Westerly]

I'll ride in any weather though I prefer it not to be wet. I live in the west and tbh could do with a bit more rain for the garden. 

 

Heading north on Monday- if the weather is reasonable I'll go the scenic route;  if its crap hammer up the motorway (the length of time of being miserable is less).

Edited April 9, 2021 by S-Westerly

[SometimesSansEngine]

40 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

I'll ride in any weather though I prefer it not to be wet.

 

When I cycled or rode to work I would happily do it in the rain (and other much more foul weather)

 

Now I currently don't have to commute there's definitely been a mindset shift of 'can't be bothered with that'. Definitely becoming more fair weather all round.

[dynax]

As it's my only transport ( except for public ), I don't have much choice if I have to go out during bad weather, although I will change plans if necessary to avoid really bad conditions

[Six30]

2 hours ago, Steve_M said:

Don’t tour...

if touring and it rains .... hotel bar , whore , cocaine and stay dry 

[skyrider]

6 hours ago, manxie49 said:

It feels like it's always raining here .... I only know summers arrived because the rain gets warmer! 

and you know when it's race weeks because it rains then too it was wet on the mountain when i marshalled 

Edited April 9, 2021 by skyrider

[onesea]

3 hours ago, Six30 said:

if touring and it rains .... hotel bar , whore , cocaine and stay dry 

I would of thought a man of your charms, would never have to pay for the company of a lady

[Bender]

6 minutes ago, onesea said:

I would of thought a man of your charms, would never have to pay for the company of a lady

Who mentioned lady  

[Six30]

33 minutes ago, onesea said:

I would of thought a man of your charms, would never have to pay for the company of a lady

what happens on tour stays on tour , eh lads .

[Six30]

34 minutes ago, Bender said:

Who mentioned lady  

your just jealous 

Edited April 9, 2021 by Six30