It's not spring until...

oblongomaculatus

1] You go out for a ride and leave your ultra-warm-but-breathable, windproof, water repellent, clima-protection all-singing, all dancing winter jacket at home.

2] You've swallowed your first insect of the year. Double points if it was a bumble bee.*

3] Post ride, you discover exposed bits of you have turned from white to pale pink.


Well, two out of three isn't bad...

*It was something small and gnatty today, if anyone's wondering. But I have actually caught a bumble bee in my mouth, more than once.

homers_double

4) it chucks it down all bank holiday weekend.

capt_slog

It's not spring for me until I see the first Sports Science/Studies student wearing flip-flops.

oblongomaculatus

homers double wrote:

4) it chucks it down all bank holiday weekend.

Snow on the first day of the cricket season is also traditional.

However, I think it's only really spring when you start seeing orange tip butterflies, http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species. ... cardamines and it's not really summer until you stop seeing them. Mid April to mid June, roughly.

rick_chasey

Milan - San Remo starts.

Obviously.

pinno

5) I have to start cutting the grass every 10 days.
6) i can dispense with the long John's.

andy9964

The C2W threads start

oblongomaculatus

Back to the windproof jacket today. Although I did see, flying low across the road in front of me, a cuckoo.

Stevo_666

...I can do an uplift day and not have to wash the bike afterwards.

SCR Pedro

oblongomaculatus wrote:

2] You've swallowed your first insect of the year. Double points if it was a bumble bee.*

A wasp stung me on the tongue today. Nearly caused a crash. How many points is that?
It still hurts.