Weather Warning - not the best....

Wallace1492

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-15333478

Kieran_Burns

Prepare to have your character built.


(good luck!)

Jay dubbleU

That'll teach you

suzyb

On the plus side...it means you wont need to cycle home in wet clothes when it's dry.

Wallace1492

Soaked on way in today, will be soaked on way home then soaked again tonight on MTB run....

sketchley

Wallace1492 wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-15333478

Is this news? I thought it always rained up north, it's one of the reason I don't live there.

rolf_f

Sketchley wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-15333478

Is this news? I thought it always rained up north, it's one of the reason I don't live there.

Nope - it's the west it always rains!

UndercoverElephant

Yeah, I checked Windguru this morning:

Morning ride: strong southerly wind, but relatively bright and about 12 degrees.

Evening ride expected to be: very strong westerly winds, pishing rain, 4 degrees.

Made the clothing choice a bit tricky.

Long_Time_Lurker

No wind this morning. Forgot to check the forecasts.
Strong easterly currently developing outside the office at the moment.

I'm going to struggle to get home in under an hour tonight. :x

White Line

I heard the wind when I woke up this morning. Should have left the house at 8am. I'm still in bed. :oops:

Tomorrow, I promise, will be different.

Kieran_Burns

Long Time Lurker wrote:

No wind this morning. Forgot to check the forecasts.
Strong easterly currently developing outside the office at the moment.

I'm going to struggle to get home in under an hour tonight. :x

an Easterly would be just fantastic for me... please, please, please let me have an Easterly...

secretsam

That's what Scotland's for - so the rest of us can look at their weather and say "Thank Christ I don't live there"

meanredspider

Yup - up here we breakfast on MTFU on toast (or stirred into our porridge (made with salt & water & sprinkled with true grit )).

Expecting it to be freezing by Wednesday morning.

veronese68

When they say strong winds in the south of the country I hope they are referring to Scotland as a country so they should say slightly less northern part of the country and not confuse us with the word south.
I know I'm a southern jessie.

Twisterboy

BBC Weather for Edinburgh today: 10am heavy rain.

10am exactly it chucked it down, been like this all day now, was wanting to go for a ride today as well.

David

meanredspider

Twisterboy wrote:

BBC Weather for Edinburgh today: 10am heavy rain.

10am exactly it chucked it down, been like this all day now, was wanting to go for a ride today as well.

Has your bike dissolved?

Twisterboy

Cannot get it out of the shed more like..... Have building work starting hopefully next week so I can't even get to the bike since I piled everything in today, maybe once the rain goes out I can get it out the shed for going out on it friday.

David

sketchley

The "News and Weather" app on Andriod is quiet good. Give the temperature, %chance of precipitation, wind and humidity for the next 24hours, you can then move the graph left and right and see what it'll be for given time.

unixnerd

I thought it always rained up north,

Rubbish, sometimes it snows instead. Snow's only lying above 3000 feet but it's meant to be lower tomorrow. Where did I put my ski wax........

barry_kellett99

The weather band you speak off has been firmly stuck over Belfast all day.
It is very wet
It is very windy
I am sitting this one out as long as I can before heading off.

mcj78

Last night I changed my bent rear mech for a straight one, re-indexed the gears & set the limit screws so it was all running smoothly, checked the raceguards (which will be swapped out for some proper mudguards soon) were secure, pumped up tyres etc. etc. So far so good. This morning I awoke to the sound of airborne garden furniture & Judith Ralston telling me that 60mph winds & pishing rain were on the menu, all day, so instead of MTFU, broken glass & barbed wire for breakfast - like I & the rest of Scotland usually have - I had tea & toast, followed by a general ignorance of the fact I even own a bike, followed by 10 miles of warm, comfortable motorway driving.

Sometimes it's just not fun to go out in that

:oops:

suzyb

Days like this not only do I not want to go out on the bike, I don't want to go out at all

notsoblue

I thought you scots were meant to be a hardy race?

MTFU

unixnerd

I thought you scots were meant to be a hardy race?

We are. So hardy in fact that we generally cycle to work in our kilts. It's only to save the blushes of young ladies and to avoid making non Scots feel inadequate that we drive to work when it's windy :twisted:

notsoblue

unixnerd wrote:

I thought you scots were meant to be a hardy race?

We are. So hardy in fact that we generally cycle to work in our kilts. It's only to save the blushes of young ladies and to avoid making non Scots feel inadequate that we drive to work when it's windy :twisted:

Do you all ride step-throughs?

suzyb

notsoblue wrote:

I thought you scots were meant to be a hardy race?

MTFU

WTFU if you don't mind.

notsoblue

suzyb wrote:

notsoblue wrote:

I thought you scots were meant to be a hardy race?

MTFU

WTFU if you don't mind.

There are female scots?

TIL

Escadrille Ecosse

notsoblue wrote:

suzyb wrote:

notsoblue wrote:

I thought you scots were meant to be a hardy race?

MTFU

WTFU if you don't mind.

There are female scots?

TIL

Sure are, and many of them look rather good too, although it can be hard to tell under all the lagging.

Truly grim, will need a snorkel on the way home, some of the puddles are getting a bit deep. At least the wind isn't as bad as forecast yet and we have had all the practice with it recently

mcj78

notsoblue wrote:

unixnerd wrote:

I thought you scots were meant to be a hardy race?

We are. So hardy in fact that we generally cycle to work in our kilts. It's only to save the blushes of young ladies and to avoid making non Scots feel inadequate that we drive to work when it's windy :twisted:

Do you all ride step-throughs?

The "mixte" is the most masculine & fearsome of all bike styles... apart from the seatless unicycle, which William Wallace rode into battle.

sketchley

mcj78 wrote:

Last night I changed my bent rear mech for a straight one, re-indexed the gears & set the limit screws so it was all running smoothly, checked the raceguards (which will be swapped out for some proper mudguards soon) were secure, pumped up tyres etc. etc. So far so good. This morning I awoke to the sound of airborne garden furniture & Judith Ralston telling me that 60mph winds & pishing rain were on the menu, all day, so instead of MTFU, broken glass & barbed wire for breakfast - like I & the rest of Scotland usually have - I had tea & toast, followed by a general ignorance of the fact I even own a bike, followed by 10 miles of warm, comfortable motorway driving.

Sometimes it's just not fun to go out in that

:oops:

MTFU

mcj78

Sketchley wrote:

mcj78 wrote:

Last night I changed my bent rear mech for a straight one, re-indexed the gears & set the limit screws so it was all running smoothly, checked the raceguards (which will be swapped out for some proper mudguards soon) were secure, pumped up tyres etc. etc. So far so good. This morning I awoke to the sound of airborne garden furniture & Judith Ralston telling me that 60mph winds & pishing rain were on the menu, all day, so instead of MTFU, broken glass & barbed wire for breakfast - like I & the rest of Scotland usually have - I had tea & toast, followed by a general ignorance of the fact I even own a bike, followed by 10 miles of warm, comfortable motorway driving.

Sometimes it's just not fun to go out in that

:oops:

MTFU

I'll see if I have any left in the cupboard for tomorrow - any spontaneously levitating wheelie bins tomorrow morning render this arrangement null et void though!