How smooth of you to practice your tactful internet grooming persona on the innocent stw ladies.
I commend you 'o' sly hairy one. 😉
cinnamon_girl - Member
I agree with some of what crikey is saying but the Winters have got progressively worse over the last few years. Thank goodness for Goretex....
And here's an ex Oz denizen thinking the winters are getting better and better. I just love it when it goes below -10º
To paraphrase, there's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong bike...
Ride more 🙂
I proposed the weekend i met wife she turned me down took 6 months of proposing till she said yes, we have been married 12 years now and 3 great kids, over here in NJ usa the snow has been here sice boxing day havent been on the bike once since xmas day, apart from 30 mins last sat, the snow is too deep off road about 8 inches and the roads are so narrow because of the piles of snow at the sides but i have made a snow tyre and i will get out this weekend otherwise i need to go up a size in jeans etc
Don't mind me' tsy, I'm no laydeee 🙂 say what you like.....
Emsz - don't worry to much, they are only little but there to escape all the same. 🙂
I'm intrigued what tsy said now???!!! I hate not knowing a secret 🙁
Sorry to go back to the weather, but I made it until this week before having my first winter rant about bloody mud. It's so deep now it's practically unrideable everywhere - I hate it! Every trail is just a battle to stay moving. Even swearing as loudly as possible at it doesn't make it go away.
And breathe......
do something else while you wait for the weather to 'improve'...?
(running, climbing, swimming, cello lessons, phone your gran, learn to build a wheel, paint the spare bedroom, bake a pie, read a book - try voltaire, how do people get bored?)
ahwiles - my grandparents are dead 🙁 now I feel even worse cos your right, I probably should have called them more 🙁 Only joking, don't feel bad, although they are actually dead 😯
I'm not bored, just fed up of rain, mud, wind, warm/cold, snow blah blah blah, it seems to be going on for a while now although I did notice yesterday it wasn't as dark as normal when I left work.
And just to prove I'm not a fairweather rider - one of my most fave rides ever was a Sunday afternoon which started off with glorious sunshine, followed by rain, sleet, full on snow, more rain, gale and then some more rain then some more sunshine just as we got back to the car. All in the space of three hours, mud was slick and my hands were frozen but had so much fun 🙂 So I'm not a complete pussy all the time. Honest! 🙂
Emma82 I'm with you, I feel like I'm living nocturnally at the moment. Dark when I go to work and when I leave.
I love going out for a ride when it's rainy or freezing and then coming back and warming up and feeling like I deserve a good rest and a beer.
BUT I'm hating this winters commuting in drizzle, miserable!
emma82 - Member
most of mine too.
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i AM a fair weather rider, i don't completely understand the point in struggling through rubbish weather when there's a whole world stuffed fit to bursting with heaps of stuff to entertain ourselves with.
After getting stuck in a puddle for 20 mins as I told you last night, I left the workshop at 10.30 last night and got stuck in a even bigger puddle with the car toatlly dead, could fix it up to ankles in water and then had to wait 3 hours for the RAC 👿 got home a 2am, hope that cheers you up further!
oh no! You are having a crappy time! Perhaps you should ride your bike rather than drive a car? 😆 Still light outside people - things are looking up!
when there's a whole world stuffed fit to bursting with heaps of stuff to entertain ourselves with
Like STW! 🙂 there's some particularly good threads kicking about today!
Eurgh dark here and looks like it's going to pour down.
**cancels idea for a quick local ride after work and now thinking about where I can go for something yum to eat instead ** 🙂
One MTB ride this week. Two road rides. Not too muddy on the MTBs (Malverns' drain very well), kind of ucky on the road but mudguards make a huge difference. I just go stir crazy if I can't ride.
Riding is always better than not riding I think.
To phone my gran I'd need the services of a medium 😉
Emma, commuting not really practical as have to drop and collect the little one at nursery, but the car has annoyed me enough I'm going to fix and sell it, van time I think 😀
Why is a mans answer to everything 'buy a van'. 🙂
I'm quite lucky, only live a 20 minute walk from my work. Think I'd go mental if I had to sit in traffic everyday. Some people I work with commute an hr each way. That would definately send me' to an early grave
