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Hailstone in June is a first for me and not in the highlands or up a mountain either, outrageous!
Hailstones in early summer is a fairly common occurrence as they are caused by similar weather to thunderstorms.
I've had the small mercy of travelling with work a lot, which means no long bike commutes and fewer MTB rides (apart from some wet Bromptoning around London).
Just as well the work has coincided with rain... I hope it means tons of sunshine is due for when I stop travelling.
Nice puddle action scuttler! Typical June weather if you ask me.
Most years people are moaning about the weather in June, usually following a decent April/May.
It's not typical June weather.
June is on average the month which has the most Sun hours and is the 3rd warmest month of the year temperature wise.
It should not be a bog fest.
If you don't expect it to be good in June then you might as well never expect it to get good because "on average" no other month is much better. Only July and August are comparable and slightly warmer.
I'm talking about expectations. Of cause any month can be rubbish, as we can see right now. But the probability of June turning out total rubbish is lower than any other month except July and August.
16-20 knots, wind against tide this morning. Wooohoooo! Not all on board agreed for very long but a short and lairy blast in the family dinghy says this weather isn't so bad!
I can't say I've really noticed it other than last week. Only a few years ago we had some really bad summers with all the flooding, I don't think we are any where near that.
The big change I've noted is how warm it is staying into the evenings/nighttime.
Had to hide under a digger today to avoid some torrential rain action. Don't think I can sink any lower.
Dry and dusty gravel ride last night.
Couple of hours coaching kids this morning on almost dry trails with minimal mud.
Glasgow isn’t always wet 😀
Been up rivington , put a bit of rain down recently and scattered showers today. It was ace, all the cheekies needed an extra level of bollox to get down them in one piece.
Got home full of mud and damp, just ace.
If you don’t expect it to be good in June then you might as well never expect it to get good
June has often been a washout in recent years in the UK. As has July.
Probably a climate change thing.
Last year was a notable exception, in being dry and warm for ages.
I make the same mistake over and over again, when the BBC says 20% chance of light rain around the time of my commutes, they mean 100% chance of me getting soaked UNLESS I take my waterproofs in which case it really is the odd dot here and there.
This is 20% chance of light showers in Yorkshire as seen from underneath aforementioned digger earlier:
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I got a good dry lap of Whinlatter last night, hoping today's dry weather holds out for tomorrow morning's quick ride.
Lap of Llandegla today. Fairly dry with the odd puddle/bit of mud and it was a nice temperature!
Got home and it was bucketing down! Wettest I've been all day was wheeling the bikes into the house 🙂
June has often been a washout in recent years in the UK. As has July.Probably a climate change thing.
Last year was a notable exception, in being dry and warm for ages.
The only month in recent years to be drier than June and July has been May which has been dry for 4 years in a row. But this is a fluke because pre-2016 it was usually a washout.
all the cheekies needed an extra level of bollox to get down them in one piece
I don't thrive in bad conditions at all, the level of tech that I ride in the dry will result in me crashing. Or spinning out and failing a tech pedally section.
but we’ve got autumn absolutely nailed.
Have we bollocks. Usually windy and wet for us at least.
but we’ve got autumn absolutely nailed.Have we bollocks. Usually windy and wet for us at least.
He must be thinking back to 2015 and 2016 when it was a good September and October at least it was round here anyway
Today I was fed up of the weather, pissing rain, so loaded the bike in the car for a vintage ride.
I was totally prepared for misery.
Got to meeting point, rain stopped, sunshine most of day with the bonus of cooling headwinds.
Tracks were muddy and slimy though.
A win!
OK - I've held off resurrecting this for a while.
I know its winter, its the UK and we expect a things to get a bit crappy.
I know we've had a couple of relatively dry winters before this one.
I've got the perfect bike for riding in winter slop.
I've even enjoyed some recent rides despite the conditions being the worst I can remember.
BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHEN WILL THE RAIN STOP!!!!
As above, I don't mind a bit of mud - but on Wednesday I had to pedal to get down a descent that's usually good for 25mph.
Add your vents/rants below.
What really pisses me off is that it’s moderately dryish during the week and then hammers down all weekend. For the last three weeks.
I've lived on the Sarf Downs for twenty years now, moved down in 2000, and this is the wettest I've seen it. It's been washed out since the end of September. It's been muddy and rubbish, Tuesdays ride was the lowlight, featuring eternal head winds, headset deep floods and then ankle deep mud for at least a mile on what I was hoping would be a less wet route. It's so wet near Lewes that I keep seeing Huey's popping over the paddy field tree lines to take out Charlie with F4's coming in and dropping "snake n nape" when the action gets too hot.
I want to move to Arizona.
I am so bored of cleaning mud off my bike, car, clothes and self.
South Cotswolds are now impassable
Bad weather? Lovely evening out!
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It's the wind that annoys me more. Road riding passes the time at best but in the wind it's grim if not actually dangerous. But the trails are slop.
Where did I put my smart trainer?
Built my new carbon FS bike at the end of September, it's not had a single ride when it's not been covered in mud.
Just been constantly wet for 5 solid months now, I'm not even bothering this weekend, after the storms and rain it's just going to be a mudfest plus dodging downed tree/branches.
Then you get a few days of no rain and think 'ooh, it might be drying out a little...' then BAM. A day of rain.
It's been so bad I've taken up running.
Oh and I'm already thinking about building a singlespeed steel/Ti hardtail with a big fat 2.8" 27.5 rear and 2.35" 29 front mud tyre for next winters slopfest.
Early Jan was pretty good. Had shifted most of the chrimbo timber and starting to get a wriggle on. Now fatter than Christmas and depressed and demotivated and pissed off. All I want to do is ride my bike down a trail or two on a Sunday and commute twice a week. Three weeks now with nothing. Bag o shite.
Rain, soaked trails. Quite a mob this past 2 weeks tearing up tweed valley off piste. Sick of riding with packed tools to fix it all.
Sick to death of it. Not touched my motorcycle for weeks.
Everywhere is a tiresome slog, and yeah, how does it know to be worst at the weekend?
Screw you God 😠
What really pisses me off is that it’s moderately dryish during the week and then hammers down all weekend. For the last three weeks.
This basically.
I’ve given up on local off road as it’s so wet. The wind is properly twisting my melon. It seems like a steady 20 mph nearly everyday since January! Piss right off.
Proper big girls blouse thread!
I did 30 hours in January. So far in Feb, with a combination of work travel, illness, the weather and trying to fix my Salsa, I've done 5hrs. I've been on leave this last week and done no riding at all.
Being ill the whole time just adds to the fun.
I fancy going to Bowland tomorrow, can handle the showers but 25mph winds ... and showers.
Good Lord....
You're the kind of people who watch Polar exploration from the comfort of your sofa and cheer them on, you'll watch epic mountaineering and struggles through -30 climbs and cheer them on.
It's winter.
It's a bit rainy.
It's a bit cold.
I'm sorry you can't ride your 2K (...and the rest...) bike, but you live in the UK.
Either Man Up or stop whimpering.
Nope. This is grim, 3weeks of this is doing my ****ing head in.
@crikey You can piss right off to the "stoically riding through the deluge" thread
Blouses.
Big
Girls
Blouses
It’s winter.
It’s a bit rainy.
It’s a bit cold.
A bit rainy. Quote of the year.
September 30th 2019
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February 20th 2020
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And cold? The max daytime temps have been below 10 degrees for only 11 of the 21 days of February so far here, with 4 days at 13 degrees and the lowest at 7 degrees. It's sodding February! I leave for work at 6:30 and I've had to de-ice the car probably less than 8 times this whole winter.
I don't mind a bit of riding in the mud, but 5 months of it? No, it needs to go away.
Yeah, it's been a really shit winter. Just want some proper cold dry weather. This is just never-ending rain.
I was going to run on the treadmill today but it was such a lovely day I decided to do an hour in the local park. Could you send some rain our way, we could do with it?
Sent with love from Madrid.
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Get on with it or give over.
You've got the best weather protection since we started wearing animal skins.
You've got the best bicycles since the Bicycle Age.
You've got central heating.
You've got washing machines.
You've got no excuse apart from being soft.