Errr, it's nighttime!

greg66_tri_v2.0
greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
edited July 2009 in Commuting chat
Outside my window, it's just gone v. dark. Like nighttime. With a thick haze. Which would be the heavy rain, falling from the black clouds.

Eeek!
Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    edited July 2009
    I have mudguards. Yay
    I have overshoes. Yay
    I have an SS jersey. Boo

    Edit: said jersey is white but not for very long....
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    It is the end time! Run for your life!
  • ince
    ince Posts: 289
    Blue sky here... :P

    Shame I had to come to work in the car :x
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    The world's going to end.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    JonGinge wrote:
    I have mudguards. Yay
    I have overshoes. Yay
    I have an SS jersey. Boo

    Edit: said jersey is white but not for very long....

    I have my Gore winter jacket. Boomshanka. I'll sweat like a crazy man and get just as wet, but hey ho.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    I work underground in a vault but checked the webcams on weather undergound http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/03772.html

    It does look rather nasty out there..although Farnham appears to have a purple haze in the sky...
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    moonio wrote:
    I work underground in a vault but checked the webcams on weather undergound http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/03772.html

    It does look rather nasty out there..although Farnham appears to have a purple haze in the sky...

    In a vault? :shock: WTF?
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    Hehe its a vault full of film cans..they need specially controlled storage conditions.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Hail!

    I don't mind getting wet, but i cleaned the bloody bike yeaterday!!
  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    I'm almost wishing I'd brought the lights in, doh.
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Farnham is having a Jimmi Hendrix experience. 8)
    The older I get the faster I was
  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    It's dry here..................







    no wait it's wet here..............................







    no wait it's dry here....................................









    hold on there's thunder now and it's wet........................





    well that was the last two minutes.
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    It's like the day after yesterday.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Well I actually manned TF down and hid under an awning. It was hailing FFS.

    OW.

    And I didn't have to rush home, nor did I have anything waterproof, and am having dinner with family tonight so didn't want to be all bedraggled.

    See? I've got my excuses all sorted. :P
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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    How was dinner on Saturday? Wass it worth missing the DD for?
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

    Felt F55 - 2007
    Specialized Singlecross - 2008
    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
    Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali
  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    Dunked it down good time in MCR - flooded everywhere - great. I'd brought all my lights, so looked like Blackpool illuminations............. soaked, but fun - even laughed when I saw major junctions under 6 inches of water...Fun......

    Bike cleaned and re-lubed within 5 mins - oh the advantage of mud guarded fixed bikes :D
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Nothing of the sort in Liverpool. Sun is shining, weather is sweet :D
  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    Didn't work out too badly in the end - although I left the office at a slightly strategic time.

    Nearly all the traffic lights were in my favour too :D - This *never* happens!
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Fook me I was in no mans land and stuck in that fooking rain!!!!

    Painful, wet and I was on my Kharma... happy bunny, I'm not.
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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Fook me I was in no mans land and stuck in that fooking rain!!!!

    Painful, wet and I was on my Kharma... happy bunny, I'm not.

    Are you crazy? I mean didn't you see the forecast? Taking your Kharma out on a day like this, sheeesh.

    Walks off shaking head, kids these days :wink:
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

    Felt F55 - 2007
    Specialized Singlecross - 2008
    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
    Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali
  • Totalnewbie
    Totalnewbie Posts: 932
    I had my waterproofs, overshoes and lights but it had stopped by the time I finished working, I was almost annoyed :roll:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/ ... 400572.jpg
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    It was only thundering for about 8 of my 12-miles...

    ANd my overshoes don't work if a car completely soaks you , two in the last two miles TBF, they had nowhere to go to avoid the flooding across the road, but I still wasn't a happy camper
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Well, after all that, I dodged the rain and dodged most of the standing water too. Damp road mostly, with not much proper wetness.

    Bike 1 thanked me. :D
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    Bike 2-A
  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    It caught me 200 metres after leaving the office. Ironic as I worked half an hour later to avoid the previous smaller squall that blew through.

    I've been taking Eastcheap and Cannon Street to avoid the Pure Hell that is Lower Thames Street for the past few days. Good job that I did, the road turned into a stream within a minute - there's no way I would have spotted any of Lower Thames's moon craters with that amount of water on the road.
  • Gilbie
    Gilbie Posts: 99
    Cycled to work in this today.
    http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/hastings ... 5434761.jp

    Not had so much fun with the rain since I was a kid!

    *edited to say not actually that road :wink:
    On road
    Or off road?
  • snellgrove
    snellgrove Posts: 171
    moonio wrote:
    Hehe its a vault full of film cans..they need specially controlled storage conditions.


    BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!

    Ok so they're not that bad, but they do go up pretty well don't they, if in the wrong conditions? :?

    on-topic, I think I need knee-warmers. Felt a bit warm for tights, but chilly for shorts this morn and my creaking knees don't like it much.
  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Football socks, Snellgrove, football socks...

    3538996656_d9ed591aec.jpg

    I do have knee warmers, but they look and feel hella pervy.
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    heh heh I missed all the rain... yes
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  • doog442
    doog442 Posts: 370
    Greg66 wrote:
    Well, after all that, I dodged the rain and dodged most of the standing water too. Damp road mostly, with not much proper wetness.

    Bike 1 thanked me. :D

    thank god for that......at first i thought he was going to ring his mum :roll:
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    doog442 wrote:

    thank god for that......at first i thought he was going to ring his mum :roll:

    Suppose now that the school hols are upon us, you'll be posting a lot more.

    Yippee.
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