P-----g rain

patbriggsmbr
patbriggsmbr Posts: 43
edited May 2012 in The bottom bracket
I usually ride in any weather but this weather is pissing me right off it's relentless.
Does anyone have any good effective clothing that actually works cos mine which are race face jacket are absolutely shite.

Comments

  • raymondo60
    raymondo60 Posts: 735
    It's mad but the best wet-weather gear I have is really cheap stuff. Some 'pac-a-man' leggings and a nasty polythene Nike hooded top - but they do keep the rain out long enough to get a ride in. Also, when its really peeing down I get the cross bike out and head for the towpaths and trials - you get a bit of tree cover at least. Proper road riding is really hard work in persistent rain.....
    Raymondo

    "Let's just all be really careful out there folks!"
  • patbriggsmbr
    patbriggsmbr Posts: 43
    Your right with the cheaper clothing the stuff I have is on the expensive side but it's not good.
    The worse thing is its knocking the hell out of my bike especially the rims.
    Bring on the sun.
  • jim453
    jim453 Posts: 1,360
    patbriggsmbr wrote:
    Your right with the cheaper clothing the stuff I have is on the expensive side but it's not good.
    The worse thing is its knocking the hell out of my bike especially the rims.
    Bring on the sun.

    I'm not sure I follow, what is the rain doing to you rims?
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Unless it's a commute do one of these.

    1,Turbo instead
    2,don't bother riding
    3,MTF
    4,Sowester and galloshers. :lol:
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • patbriggsmbr
    patbriggsmbr Posts: 43
    The grit get onto the rims when soaked so when braking its wearing the rims down and dishing starts weakening the braking surface and eventually they snap. A bit crap really.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    It's only rain, just ride. If you get wet it's not a problem as long as you don't allow yourself to get cold. Rode to work yesterday morning in pouring rain, I dried myself off as soon as I reached work and put my kit out to dry. By time I rode home again my kit was dry and ready for another soaking. Maybe I'm a bit perverse but I quite enjoy riding in the rain as long as I'm not in a group, I find it quite refreshing. I use an Altura Night Vision waterproof jacket which keeps me pretty dry but I just let my lower body get wet in normal tights.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Me and a couple of other hardy commuters decided to MTFU this morning and ride in despite the British weather.

    522010_10150834887105196_587815195_12279990_1336328451_n.jpg
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    patbriggsmbr wrote:
    The grit get onto the rims when soaked so when braking its wearing the rims down and dishing starts weakening the braking surface and eventually they snap. A bit crap really.

    A few rides in the rain isn't going to wreck your rims!

    Not sure what you mean by dishing in this context though....
    More problems but still living....
  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
    Pross wrote:
    Me and a couple of other hardy commuters decided to MTFU this morning and ride in despite the British weather.

    522010_10150834887105196_587815195_12279990_1336328451_n.jpg

    I remember doing that some years ago down in Somerset.. Oct Nov time..and it was pitch black at night on a country road..I'd been out all day in the p**s'in rain
    No Pain; No Gain;

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/john-e-big-guns/
  • Mike67
    Mike67 Posts: 585
    Pross wrote:
    Me and a couple of other hardy commuters decided to MTFU this morning and ride in despite the British weather.

    522010_10150834887105196_587815195_12279990_1336328451_n.jpg

    Hope they're using a wet lube :D

    See the rain is back with a vengeance today...still, I managed to get out in the little sun we got yesterday...bliss.
    Next dry day is May 7th I believe :wink:
    Mike B

    Cannondale CAAD9
    Kinesis Pro 5 cross bike
    Lots of bits
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    I just hope they aren't carbon frames or they'll melt from under them!
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Pross wrote:
    I just hope they aren't carbon frames or they'll melt from under them!

    Dissolve, surely?
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    I just hope they aren't carbon frames or they'll melt from under them!

    Dissolve, surely?

    No, it's a well known fact that carbon melts in rain hence all the posts in the beginners section on whether a carbon frame can be ridden in the rain.
  • nathancom
    nathancom Posts: 1,567
    It's the wind more than the rain that's the problem up here in Scotland. You get used to the rain after 1573 consecutive days of it.
  • hugo15
    hugo15 Posts: 1,101
    Really sick of this weather too. Had hoped to get out on the bike after work tonight but it's pouring down so on the turbo (again...). Forecast for the weekend looks more like winter; northerly winds and only 5c for Sunday,
  • Zingzang
    Zingzang Posts: 196
    Club 10 mile TT tonight: 7 degrees C, heavy rain, 11mph winds with 25mph gusts. Last three TT's I've done have all been in the rain. Getting sick of cleaning my bike, and picked up two glass shards in my tubs tonight, leaving cuts.

    Rain is predicted to be fairly relentless till the end of May - not cos it gets sunny then, but cos they can't forecast any further ahead than that. I can, though, and I can tell you it's gonna RAIN.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Riding in the wet is looked upon with admiration if you follow the rules of The Velominati. MTFU, its not cold, just wet. :wink:
  • JamesB
    JamesB Posts: 1,184
    UK forecast - Day 16 to 30

    UK Outlook for Thursday 10 May 2012 to Thursday 24 May 2012:

    Changeable weather is likely to continue, although perhaps not quite to the same extent as the last week or so. Showers or longer periods of rain are likely to affect most parts of the UK, but rainfall totals will probably be close to seasonal averages. Between the rain and showers, there should also be some drier and brighter interludes, these perhaps most likely to the south and east. Temperatures are likely to be often close to the seasonal average, and feeling cool in the wind and rain, but should lift above average during any sunnier, more settled periods.

    Lots of perhaps / likely used, so as above it is going to continue wet, cold and not nice :(:(

    good job they`ve given up on the 90 day out;look too as would be thoroughly depressing;

    Has themes of 1976 drought, announce a hosepipe ban / drought officilly declared and it RAINS
  • patbriggsmbr
    patbriggsmbr Posts: 43
    Been out a couple of times this week up here in the peaks, no one else turned up for the club
    Ride so hence went on my own, the rain was relentless, the problem was how cold it was. On the tops over the peaks it started snowing lightly. Can't be doing with that so bought some rollers, not the same as getting out but at least I will be dry and warm instead of cold, soaked and p----d off.
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Pross wrote:
    Me and a couple of other hardy commuters decided to MTFU this morning and ride in despite the British weather.

    522010_10150834887105196_587815195_12279990_1336328451_n.jpg


    Looked exactly like this in oxford today... only for the 10 Mina when I was walking across town though :x

    Haven't been out on the bike in ages..n don't have any of the wet gear stuff :(
  • p9uma
    p9uma Posts: 565
    The enemy and I went out for a couple of hours today in North Oxfordshir , it pissed down for ninety minutes, some of the roads were waterlogged. I felt I was a proper cyclist once I got home, hardcore, me.
    Trek Madone 3.5
    Whyte Coniston
    1970 Dawes Kingpin
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    p9uma wrote:
    The enemy and I went out for a couple of hours today in North Oxfordshir , it pissed down for ninety minutes, some of the roads were waterlogged. I felt I was a proper cyclist once I got home, hardcore, me.

    I would have gone out but fortunately I have no where to clean the bike... so i have an excuse :mrgreen:
  • p9uma
    p9uma Posts: 565
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    p9uma wrote:
    The enemy and I went out for a couple of hours today in North Oxfordshir , it pissed down for ninety minutes, some of the roads were waterlogged. I felt I was a proper cyclist once I got home, hardcore, me.

    I would have gone out but fortunately I have no where to clean the bike... so i have an excuse :mrgreen:

    Yeah. Right.
    Trek Madone 3.5
    Whyte Coniston
    1970 Dawes Kingpin
  • patbriggsmbr
    patbriggsmbr Posts: 43
    Sunday 6th may and it's cold but no rain. I'm off out with club, proper job! Might snow though later mmm.
  • nevman
    nevman Posts: 1,611
    Not rained today-whats going on?
    Whats the solution? Just pedal faster you baby.

    Summer B,man Team Carbon LE#222
    Winter Alan Top Cross
    All rounder Spec. Allez.
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    It's been lovely here, biting Northerly wind mind !

    Went out at lunchtime in shorts and short sleeved jersey, the wind was most definitely coooold, but when out of the wind the sun was lovely, I was overheating. Can't win really ! Moan moan moan :wink:

    Wasn't raining though :mrgreen:
    Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
    Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved

Categories