Batten Down the Hatches

Wallace1492
Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
edited December 2011 in Commuting chat
Severe weather for Scotland, sweeping across from West to East.
Back in Glasgow for a few days, but no bike - just not worth it in what is about to hit us.

Flooding, trees down, bridges closed already, might have trouble getting home.
"Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"

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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Shame the Rusty Raleigh's off the road, I really fancy a shot at the PB home with a 90mph tailwind...

    OK, maybe not.
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    May be a day to forego the kilt, my Caledonian chums.
    FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
    CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
    Litespeed L3 for Strava bits

    Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    SimonAH wrote:
    May be a day to forego the kilt, my Caledonian chums.

    Oh I don't know.....

    tilted-kilt.jpg
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    I rode in today, but the Mrs insisted that I came home at lunchtime before it gets really bad this evening. Not too bad I thought, but tailwinds rarely are. Was a bit hairy when it came from the side, though, leaning heavily to even go in a straight line isn't much fun.
    Sun - Rain - Snow
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    News just in: Hurricane Bawbag hits Scotland...

    http://entertainment.stv.tv/opinion/286 ... reactions/
    Sun - Rain - Snow
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Someone's just posted that a 150mph wind was recorded on top of the Cairngorm!

    Just checked and:

    http://cairngormweather.eps.hw.ac.uk/current.htm

    Gulp.

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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Just topped. Apparently the max is now 165 mph!
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Gallywomack
    Gallywomack Posts: 823
    I see Hurricane Spam has hit the forum
    Pompino
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Nah. Hurricane Bawbag according to Twitter.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    Impressively blowy out there right now. Fortunately, in a perverse way, it's often pretty windy up here so anything that's likely to blow away or fall over has done so already - there's rarely any damage. Stunning amount of water about though - flooding is likely to be the worst issue especially as the snow finally gets around to melting
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  • Alinshearah
    Alinshearah Posts: 339
    Batten down the hatches as the spam man is back
  • nich
    nich Posts: 888
    It was even bloody windy in London. Probably the windiest in a long time...can't say I enjoyed it, but I'm satisfied I made it home upright.
  • Nik Cube
    Nik Cube Posts: 311
    it was pretty windy here it wiltshere I got blown about a bit - still clocked up an avg of 16.5 mph into the wind :D
    Fcn 5
    Cube attempt 2010
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    16 miles home into a head wind. Twice blown 4ft sideways. Then it rained a lot. Why did I not get train home.
    --
    Chris

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