Hailstones hurt...shocker

Mike67

Especially when you're doing 20mph...ouch

What's the general consensus...do you carry on and plough through it or do you wimp out and hide until it stops and you can actually see where you're going again?
Luckily it didn't last long but they don't half make you cold.

Wouldn't mind but today it was sunny at 9am, 10am, 11am, 12noon and 1pm. Then the cloud rolled in and in the space of an hour and it was tipping it down by 2pm....guess what time I finished work and went for a ride? :roll:

briantrumpet

In my days as a herdsman, hail was the one sort of weather the cows really hated - in seconds they'd disappear en masse under any cover they could find. Fortunately they didn't ride bikes.

Cleat Eastwood

I got caught out in them the other day, and as I wear specs they were bouncing off the glasses straight in my eyes - they are nasty blighters.

Kieran_Burns

Saw that wander past. I was mighty glad I was indoors at the time.

However when it came to 6pm when I left, I jokingly said to my mate (who offered me a lift home) "Nah! I'm looking forward to a ride home with no headwind, but knowing my luck it'll tip it down"

Why the hell can I not just shut the hell up?

STEFANOS4784

I got cought going down a hill in them once. Ouch. I had no glasses and I cr@pped myself. Needless to say i wimped out and hid as best I could

waynobfc

Got caught in it yesterday - definately of the 'plough straight through' ilk though! Was heading into Rawtenstall with my eyes as good as shut!

OffTheBackAdam

OTBA's first bicycling memory, is aged not a lot, sat on his red & white tricycle at the top of the garden, bawling his little head off, as hailstones peppered him, mother calling me to get inside, rather than sit there & cry!
Hailstorm + cycling = take cover!

bagpusscp

Left cake at denstone {staffs} and rode all the way in hail & rain.Arrived derby 20 miles= drowned rat.loved it.then again i am two bricks short of a full load!!

Mark Alexander

Put your Oakley's on (they're proven shotgun proof) thick gloves and jacket, thin lycra MTFU.
translated Cower in the bushes FFS theyre stones!

Kieran_Burns

bagpusscp wrote:

Left cake at denstone {staffs} and rode all the way in hail & rain.Arrived derby 20 miles= drowned rat.loved it.then again i am two bricks short of a full load!!

Rocester, Cubley, Alkmonton and then up and down the roller-coaster of Long Lane?

(if so you are completely mental! )

verylonglegs

Mark Alexander wrote:

Put your Oakley's on (they're proven shotgun proof) thick gloves and jacket, thin lycra MTFU.
translated Cower in the bushes FFS theyre stones!

Haha, do they say shotgun proof glasses as a selling point and if so why?! 'Yeah detective, his eyeballs are intact but we had to pick up the rest of his face with a sponge...'

bagpusscp

Kieran_Burns wrote:

bagpusscp wrote:

Left cake at denstone {staffs} and rode all the way in hail & rain.Arrived derby 20 miles= drowned rat.loved it.then again i am two bricks short of a full load!!

Rocester, Cubley, Alkmonton and then up and down the roller-coaster of Long Lane?

(if so you are completely mental! )

Yep that was the way I came home & and you are dead right :!:

graham.

bagpusscp wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

bagpusscp wrote:

Left cake at denstone {staffs} and rode all the way in hail & rain.Arrived derby 20 miles= drowned rat.loved it.then again i am two bricks short of a full load!!

Rocester, Cubley, Alkmonton and then up and down the roller-coaster of Long Lane?

(if so you are completely mental! )

Yep that was the way I came home & and you are dead right :!:

Glad to hear you regard it as something of a roller coaster as well.
Perhaps I'm not such a wuss after all!
Graham.