Rant:Getting P1ssed off with this now

ddraver
ddraver Posts: 26,708
edited August 2010 in MTB general
Apologies in advance but...

We have been on 8 rides since the start of July we have not had a single dry day for the whole bloody month, in fact it's been absoloutly throwign it down - once again there is a pile of sodden bike gear that needs washing and the bike will need a bloody good clean AGAIN!!!!

FFS! this is supposed to be summer - where are the dry trails, the dust clouds and the summer tyres. It's getting to the stage where I'm praying for another snowy winter becasue then i will actually get a "dry"! ride in!!!

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!

there, finished!
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
- @ddraver

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  • Bar Shaker
    Bar Shaker Posts: 2,313
    Nice and dry down here!
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  • ilovedirt
    ilovedirt Posts: 5,798
    It's been reasonably dry here too, shame the riding is crap! At least you live in bloody north wales!
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    MTB'ing is much better in the wet anyways!

    MTFU!
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  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    The Northern Monkey wrote:
    MTB'ing is much better in the wet anyways!

    MTFU!

    +1

    If I don't come in mudded up to the eyeballs, it wasn't a good ride.
  • Atz
    Atz Posts: 1,383
    Really dry here. I'm taking what I can get after the filth and misery of winter and spring this year.
  • furby
    furby Posts: 200
    extremly dry here.
  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    I've been lucky and had a few breaks in the weather, but it's rained in the Highlands for what seems like forever. Not warm either, had hardly any days over 20C this year. I can still see patches of snow on Cairngorm from my house.
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  • bunyip
    bunyip Posts: 52
    had my first muddy ride in the peaks for months yesterday! loved it :D
  • carbonfiend
    carbonfiend Posts: 475
    Epping Forest is awesome at the mo' There's too much tread on a Racin Ralph its that dry :)
    '..all the bad cats in the bad hats..'
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    I got pissed on again today too. But I suppose that was ideal since it was a testride/bedding in ride, you can't really shake a bike down in the dry.

    At least in winter when it rains I can wear my big heavy waterproofs and be impervious :lol: But warm rain I hate.
    Uncompromising extremist
  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    Northwind wrote:
    I got pissed on again today too.

    Whatever floats your boat.... not into watersports myself :?
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  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,980
    The Northern Monkey wrote:
    Northwind wrote:
    I got pissed on again today too.

    Whatever floats your boat.... not into watersports myself :?


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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    You might like it :lol: You'll never know unless you try
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    telling me to MTFU is harsh - as aI said its not stopped us riding!

    all you people who ve said it's been dry in your area you re all barstewards!! :wink:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Rain. What's that?

    Think yesterday was the first bit of moisture from the sky in ages and was little more than a bit of drizzle. The trails are bone dry and sandy round this way.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    deadkenny wrote:
    Rain. What's that?

    Think yesterday was the first bit of moisture from the sky in ages and was little more than a bit of drizzle. The trails are bone dry and sandy round this way.

    definite barsteward!! :wink:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    The Northern Monkey wrote:
    MTB'ing is much better in the wet anyways!

    MTFU!
    Get's incredibly tedious after a while. Especially when all the WALKERS down south are letting us know about this being the best summer they've had in years :evil:
  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    The Northern Monkey wrote:
    MTB'ing is much better in the wet anyways!

    MTFU!

    + potato..

    plus.. there are two ways to get full of mud on weekends. Gardening is the wrong way, I much prefer the "correct way"
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  • Noclue
    Noclue Posts: 503
    It's so dry down here in Sussex than even when it does drizzle a little the water soaks away in seconds and the trails are back to dry and dusty, reckon it'll take at least a month of solid rain to make mud again :D
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    I nearly ended up in the sea earlier. Was playing around by the docks, dropping onto the sloping slipway from higher each time, until I hit the slime covered part. I was sat on my bike with both brakes on, both feet on the floor, slowly moving downwards towards the sea! :lol:
  • Mental Mickey
    Mental Mickey Posts: 406
    May and June were the best months so far here in the Midlands, both really hot.

    Love the rain though, much needed for Cannock BV trails for bedding in purposes, actually I can't wait for winter, nothing better than being the lone solitary madman in the woods while fair weather riders shy away. 8)
  • j_l
    j_l Posts: 425
    May and June baking here in Devon, July, p1ssing down :? = rubbish
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Just realised this morning, there's been a bucket in th egarden for a week. It now has about 11" of water in it, in a freaking week! :shock:
  • PXR5
    PXR5 Posts: 203
    Had a thunderstorm here last night, lashed it down for about an hour - but we needed that, front garden no longer has grass, just something that resembles straw on it, it hasn't rained properly for a few months now, so yep its very very dry - when it finally does rain and we get some nice mud and puddles my friends cannot understand at all why i should get any enjoyment out of splashing through them at high speed, they all try to cycle round them ...
    Every time I go out, I think I'm being checked out, faceless people watching on a TV screen.....
  • bbug
    bbug Posts: 83
    Be thankfull that at least you can still go out if it's raining. With my other activity, kite buggying, if it rains, you don't go. Kite fills with water and gets to heavy to fly.

    The winds this summer have been pants too so no kiting again.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    bbug wrote:
    Be thankfull that at least you can still go out if it's raining. With my other activity, kite buggying, if it rains, you don't go. Kite fills with water and gets to heavy to fly.

    The winds this summer have been pants too so no kiting again.
    That's when Beach Buggying should take over!
  • GhallTN6
    GhallTN6 Posts: 505
    Dusty as hell here for ages, getting a bit bored of it, But going to Cardigan Bay, West Wales on Friday for a weeks holiday.. you just know it's gonna piss it down all week!
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  • PXR5
    PXR5 Posts: 203
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    That's when Beach Buggying should take over!

    :shock: :shock: :shock: OMG
    I thought I was the only person still alive who had ever owned or driven one of these pieces of artwork !!!
    Mine used to have a real mind of its own, as the shortened chassis was not exactly 100% square - Is it still possible to own and run one of these things or have the DVLC outlawed them because

    1. You risk having too much fun
    2. Nothing fits in any of the necessary boxes that need ticking
    3. Its considered just too much bad taste nowadays along with a mullet haircut...
    Every time I go out, I think I'm being checked out, faceless people watching on a TV screen.....
  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    What is this 'rain' of which you speak?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Me, my brother and a few of his mates built a beach buggy years ago, it was awesome fun!
    Used some box section to make the chassis, Mini wheels, an Escort mkII rear axle, and a motorcycle engine.
    It was the funnest thing everer!

    We did get chased by the police through newborough forest with it though :lol:

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