So, anyone else get nearly drowned on the way home?

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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Hisss.......
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  • richVSrich
    richVSrich Posts: 527
    there is however, this on the Southern daily Echo, wasnt sure if it deserved its own thread:

    any basingstoke cyclists?

    http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9091273 ... oundabout/
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  • Sailorchick
    Sailorchick Posts: 202
    richVSrich wrote:
    there is however, this on the Southern daily Echo, wasnt sure if it deserved its own thread:

    any basingstoke cyclists?

    http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9091273 ... oundabout/

    Was on South Today this morning too. Very scary and hope he makes a full recovery.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Best check rain today again if you live on the South Coast - you're about to get wet.

    Very very wet
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  • Sailorchick
    Sailorchick Posts: 202
    Its chucking it down again!! Getting very fed up with the rain now!
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    its like a summers day here.....very odd
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Sailorchick wrote:
    Its chucking it down again!! Getting very fed up with the rain now!

    looking at the map - it's gonna get worse :?
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  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    Looks like London is going to get soaked in the next 15 mins, and its going to last a good couple of hours. No waterproofs so is going to be a very wet ride home.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,776
    10-30mm :lol::(
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    It's OK to let the thread stop now. It's dry in Leeds.
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  • welkman
    welkman Posts: 396
    Got properly drenched today, thought I had got away with it until halfway home when we had what is technicaly known as a 'cloudburst'.

    On another note I have found that DHB roubaix shorts, lidl top and gillet are a really good rain option. Much more comfy than my boil in the bag winter jacket providing you keep the hammer down and the body heat up.
  • Applespider
    Applespider Posts: 506
    Yup... it was just damp when I left the office but was thoroughly soggy by the time i got home.

    My Pearl Izumi gilet held up OK - the cheap 'standby' rain jacket that a pal picked me up in Lidl less so - I'm not sure I'd have got and wetter if I'd left it off... There is a small part of me (when cycling home to where a hot shower and lots of comfy clothes await me) that quite likes the rain and splashing through puddles in the park...
  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    I got wetter in an hour tonight than on the 4h/60mile sportive last Sunday... it was raining so hard I couldnt see through the glasses and the wind was blowing the water through the lens anti-mist vents :(

    Hot shower and I'm feeling quite good now :)
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,776
    Despite getting a train from Farringdon to Tooting, I still got soaked in the 15 minute home stretch - it wasn't actually raining that hard, but I haven't seen that much standing water for a long, long time. Are all the drains in London blocked?
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    rjsterry wrote:
    . Are all the drains in London blocked?
    Certainly were some serious rivers to cross.. lots of standing water up through Camden Town and on the Edgware Road/Cricklewood Broadway
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    I thought about going out for a quick ride, but currently we appear to trying out every type of weather possible.

    Better get my sledge ready, you never know .... :evil:
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