Really Looking Forward to my Ride in Tomorrow (mon)

Chewy Cheeks

Totally whimped out this morning and for the next week, meetings, courses and so on. Travel card £15.60 for the week will take me to work and 2 QPR games with the kids as well and keeping me off the Bike.......I don't know if I am ok with this but I got so flippin' wet in November.......ashamed of myself - a bit.

Bassjunkieuk

I have to admit I did wuss out this morning to, but only because I knew I could catch a lift with my mate who lives near by and was working at the same place I am today! If he hadn't been working today I would have had to give some serious thought then as I'd have to drive then! I think I would have chosen the bike over driving myself tho regardless of how wet it was looking! I can deal with rain, I've been out in quite heavy downpours - it's the wind that had me worried!! That and the fact that my commute would have been about 15 miles each way!

Just hope it brightens up a bit tomorrow so I can use the bike then! Still a 15 mile journey each way but I really wanna get out!

mediamonkey

Gambatte wrote:

Surely the 'centre of the low' was also travelling from west to east?
Metoffice warnings were over Brum yesterday, it's still got 'very windy' in the first line of the ongoing forecast.

Yes, but the strongest winds were always going to be on the southern side of the low. I admit to being a bit of a weather geek, and I looked at the charts yesterday and could see that the strong winds would be confined to the extreme south:

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It's quite hard to see the UK but it's almost right under the centre of that low pressure - and the centre is the calm area.

CanterburyTailwind

Great day for commuting - I love storms blowing in from the West! The wind was doing a weird thing, though: about half way there it seemed to wheel around and turn into a head wind, so my overall commuting time was pretty average...

an rothar mor

I cycled in this morning from SE London to Canary Wharf after much dithering about the conditions – radio reports not helpful i.e storms lashing England, don’t leave your house, world ending. My commute coincided with the eye of the storm and wind direction so no problems out of the ordinary, the usual wet feet and non-operational lifts at Greenwich foot tunnel. At lunch time the rain was horizontal, driven into Canary Wharf by v. strong winds so was bit concerned. Going home soon and looking out of office window now it seems to be v. windy but not raining so hopefully will be straightforward going home.

Safe riding everyone.
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Wooliferkins

Rode in today, caught the eye I think, but wasn't that bad in Oxfordshire the west country takes the edge off most thingsd weather wise. Heavy rain and the odd bad gust but nothing ridiculous since silly o'clock this morning. Some great wind assisted bits on the way home. 1 hour commute tomorrow weather permitting. Not looking forward to the last 6 miles into wind.

prj45

el_presidente wrote:

I did come round the corner of St Pauls and get hit by a head-on gust that nearly stopped me dead in my tracks; but otherwise not too bad just got a bit damp.

Snap!

I've got cam footage of this, hope it comes out OK, but I was blown to a stop.

I did cling film my shoes, spent ten minutes doing it, but it all unravelled about 200 yards down the road from home so I had to stuff it in my pockets and put up with VERY wet feet.

Rubbish everywhere, and a couple of wheelie bins in the road, who's idea was it to have a windy day on Monday when people put their rubbish out.

Wooliferkins

Hmm my bin day tomorrow. Leaving it till last thing.. Have a mental picture of a mate on the club who climbed into his cardboard /garden waste wheelie bin to cram it down and shot off down the drive, that and the cycle cape comment above opens a whole new extreme sport!.

BentMikey

Don't you mean which idiots put their rubbish out on a windy Monday?