UK - we may have a problem

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  • thecrofter
    thecrofter Posts: 734
    jam5ie76 wrote:
    mudcow007 wrote:
    ah its ok its only going across Scotland......looks like we might be down on shortbread biscuits and iron bru for a while though, plus the Scots are use to windy conditions





    i love Scotland really xx

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  • rebs
    rebs Posts: 891
    It's only on course with Scotland... no big deal.... :P

    Might make the place more appealing.... :D
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Let's hope it swirls in a big fat circle and the wind can push me in from 6-12 on the clock via 9, and push me home via 3.

    Otherwise I may turn into Wallace1492 and go on the train. Wuss.
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    The EYE is going over Scotland - Hurricanes are quite big things apparently.

    Methinks the southern poofs may get a little ruffled, the further North you are, the more you may need sails....

    I don't think hurricanes (or storms) are that discriminatory, it will hit the hetrosexual cycling (and non cycling) community just as hard or soft as the homsexuals.
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  • rebs
    rebs Posts: 891
    I'm just thinking of the immense tailwind I'll have going to work on Monday.... :p
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    My mate in Glasgow is having his wife sew belt loops around the bottom of his kilt :lol:
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    He could just wear some merino boxer shorts
  • Applespider
    Applespider Posts: 506
    but will cross Scotland overnight Sunday and into Monday morning.

    Oh good - I'm flying back from Scotland on Sunday night - might be a bumpy ride...
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    I remember 1987, the wind knocked over a tree.

    Wow, back then you had proper winters, not these tropical winters we get nowadays. I remember being so cold that any attempt to warm yourself by a fire would physically hurt.

    Chill blaze.

    Anyway, do you guys really think I think a storm is down to the green house effect + climate change + global warming. I means sure, everyone knows that the radiation seeping through the hole in the ozone layer caused the zombie war of '93 but still...

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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    rebs wrote:
    It's only on course with Scotland... no big deal.... :P

    Might make the place more appealing.... :D


    says the person in east london!

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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    SimonAH wrote:
    My mate in Glasgow is having his wife sew belt loops around the bottom of his kilt :lol:
    Can't he just wear men's clothing instead?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Met Office is issuing warnings for the North and Scotland and looking at the site shows over 50mph gusts where *I* am.

    It's going to be the mother of all tailwinds in, but I'll be FACING these winds on the way home. I'm not sure I'll be good enough for that.... would like to try though.

    (Good luck to anyone further North than me)
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,465
    Could be worse I suppose

    These guys are looking at the weather forecast and contemplating the 2000km non stop ultracycling Race Around Ireland

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  • gb155
    gb155 Posts: 2,048
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/international-news/122507-us-escapes-as-hurricane-katia-changes-course-towards-the-uk.html

    Ummm.... Monday may be a little blustery

    Who wants to cycle in a Hurricane? :shock:


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  • Nik Cube
    Nik Cube Posts: 311
    I was out for beer and curry in September 1987 we just thought as we were pissed that was why we kept falling over. It wasn't until tuseday that I realised somthing had happened - happy days !!
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    hmmm.. i'm supposed to be cycling down to Tunbridge tomorrow night and back on Tuesday morning... no rain forecast, but those winds, even in the South, are going to make the climbs hard work... MTFU or get the train down, will decide tomorrow afternoon...
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    The journey in to work looks pretty damn good...
  • nich
    nich Posts: 888
    but the journey back home?.... ;)
  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    It will be a bit breezy - cycled into work in far worse.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    nich wrote:
    but the journey back home?.... ;)

    The journey home :shock:
  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Fairly windy in London. Quick ride in.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Cruised at 30mph on an uphill this morning.

    This does not auger well for the ride home..... :?

    Felt like the wind was directly from the South on the way in so when I was on my Easterly stretch I was leaning into a crosswind, but when I turned North everything went quiet and my speed went up by at least 5mph.
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    it wasnt that bad around these ways this morning, im pretty disappointed to be honest

    i bet im now doomed for headwind all the way home now
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    It felt like I had a blustery, occasional sidewind more than anything else this morning.

    My ride in is SE, the wind was apparently SSW, on the way home it's going to be moving to more WSW, so I might stuggle a bit more.

    Still, there was loads of traffic that I just breezed (hur hur) past this morning, so I still think the bike was the right choice.
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  • king_jeffers
    king_jeffers Posts: 694
    Forecast promising 70mph gusts here today and tomorrow. Mrs gave me a lift in today, spotted 6 cyclists. Feeling guilty now, I should have been one of them :cry:

    However tomorrow is another day! :mrgreen:
  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    Not bad up in Manchester - nothing out of the ordinary really. Might be stronger later, but I've got to go to another site this afternoon, so I'll be out in it on the bike.
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Was getting rather blustery in Glasgow, the building seemed to funnel the wind. All into headwind this morning, so hopefully be a quick run home....

    However cancelled the night MTB run, just dont want to be in the woods in the dark with the wind. :shock:
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    Wasn't too bad this morning, its the sudden gusts that catch you out and in London they seem to come from everywhere... and some were definitely of the "blow you across the road" variety
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Wind map is showing 65mph winds here in the afternoon and 85mph winds in Scotland.

    Looks like the eye will hit Inverness
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Tour of Britain stage has been cancelled today.
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