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.....is back.
Bah
Meh, grim
yeh, I was just wondering if I'd been asleep for 6 months 😥
It's like I had a dream about dusty singletrack... and then I woke up.
It seemed so real. 😕
yay tomorrow is my first chance to go for a ride since slogging through hail and thunder at inners enduro a few weeks back
oh freakin joy even if the forecast is dry tomorrow im gonna be riding through a bog so just had to spend the evening getting the winter hardtail rideable again
yay tomorrow is my first chance to go for a ride since slogging through hail and thunder at inners enduro a few weeks back
oh freakin joy even if the forecast is dry tomorrow im gonna be riding through a bog so just had to spend the evening getting the winter hardtail rideable again
I feel like ive missed summer
Well, sorry, but I disagree (from a geographical pov). I went out tonight and rode dry dusty trails to a back-drop of blue sky and fluffy white clouds.
I just hope it lasts.
Weatherman just said "...not looking great for the weekend either..."
FFS!!
Getting a bit bored of the constant crap weather. Will we ever have a decent summer again?! Last one i remember was 2006. Nothing beats a week of Hot (above 30 Celcius) sun, then maybe a big bang thunderstorm to take the mugginess out the air and then start over again building temperatures up. But the only chance i'll get that is when i go Back to Rhodes in September.
Cold, wet and miserable outside. And ive got the fire on full blast.
I'm kind of resigning myself to the fact that this is climate change in effect..
We've had this short April/May summer followed by rain and wind for a good five years now..
I think we just have to face up to the fact that the Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter of our youth was simply a delightful but fleeting transitional period and that we are now into a new pattern, or perhaps even back into the normal pattern..
Our island has a very long history of being godforsaken with regards to the weather
Muddy trails never used to bother me i'd just take the road bike out. Now all the nice quiet roads round my way are crumbling away to nothing, already need the FS on some stretches! On the plus side I'm riding in the drops more now after losing both hands off the hoods hitting a pothole. That was not fun.
I did think about taking the guards off. For about a second!
We've not even had the April/May Summer this year - a few frikkin days doesn't count. I really thought after that godforsaken winter that we might be in for a change this year. Not sure how much more of it I can take tbh!
Read on the front of a tabloid yesterday not to expect a summer again due to that bloody jetstream 😥
Hang on in there Lads, summer's on it's way.
I had a coat and gloves on riding into work this morning!!
It all changed a week or so ago when I decided it was time to switch to shorts. Perhaps I should put longs back on!
I know Jo B gets a bit of a bad press round here sometimes, but this sums up the current weather beautifully [img] 
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Yesterday I was outside all day and got soaked, today come into work and the heating is off, we are all sitting around in coats. Its June in a smidge over 2 weeks! 😐 bleak very bleak.
Hands up if you lit the fire last night 😳
Hardly ridden for 5 months because the ground's been so crap, then head out yesterday (with Bear of this 'ere forum) in the pouring rain. Actually quite enjoyed it. Probably ought to stop being such a pussy and get out more.
I was going to ride in this morning. When I woke up I didn't even need to look out of the window to make a decision, I could hear the rain absolutely lashing, horizontally against the window.
Weirdly, if it is actually November then I'll be more inclined to MTFU, get up and ride in anyway. Because you expect the weather to be dull, dark, wet, cold and windy in November. When its mid May (FFS!!!) I'll sigh depressingly, fart, roll over, have an extra half hour in bed, then drive in. 🙁
C'mon mate. That link is wasted on this thread. It needs a whole new (10+ pages?) thread of its own. 🙂
I can honestly say i have ridden more this year than usual by this stage.
Been pretty dry up on the east coast of Jockland. Apart from some crazy rain forecast on Saturday its looking pretty decent for the foreseeable as well.
It's hardly been constantly bad. We've just had two weeks of pretty damn fine weather for a British spring. Man up.
the weather is utter bobbins. My kids have not seen a proper summer, but what can you do other than don some decent kit and go out and have fun.
Keeping the clocks on BST would, IMHO, help as it would mean that evenings are at least a bit lighter and wet, rather than dark and wet and ****.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22536139
Snow on dartmoor last night. Been about 10 yrs since I've seen snow this late in the year.
Has anyone mentioned hosepipe bans yet?
Sorry lads it my fault - I have test match tickets for Sunday. Mrs CDs first test match and judging by the forecast I imagine it will be her last.
bwfc4eva868 - Member
But the only chance i'll get that is when i go Back to Rhodes in September.
My friends are on holiday in Rhodes at the moment and the it has been raining since they arrived on Saturday.
Much of Europe have had this bad weather too.
It is awfully depressing though.
My commute this morning nicely disproved the "No such thing as bad weather, only bad kit" thing. The only waterproof thing that proved to be actually waterproof was my bag cover. Everything else didn't last long. I don't mind so much in January, but in mid May it's rather annoying.
I'm going camping/riding the first week and a half of June, so not expecting it to get better..... sorry.
I know it's predictably English to moan about the weather, but come on.
Just got used to coming home and putting the bike away without cleaning the mud of of it and myself for 20 minutes, twice a week. Will be out tonight, anyway.
Hands up if you lit the fire last night
Not me. I lit it in the morning.
I only stopped having fires for a week. We've been having them for 9 months now!
I usually ride once at the weekend (generally on road) and once in the week (or, on a good week, 2 or 3 times). I can see that the weather is horrible out of my window, yet I don't remember having too many unpleasant rides because of it. I reckon you commuters out there notice it more and for that you have my sympathy.
That said, I have plans for a long evening ride tonight and had hoped it would be a *touch* nicer than it is.
I call it Mayvember, still wearing full finger gloves this morning on the commute. I did wear mitts a couple of days last week but regretted it on Friday half way through a 20 mile ride home in pissing rain with completely numb hands. Awesome for mid May!
To add insult to injury my car's thermo seemed to be saying it was 3degs outside this morning.
It's obviously faulty as it's the middle of May... 😐
Looks like mine's faulty too then. It said exactly the same 🙁
It's been bobbins here near Greonble and beyond too. Our road clubs annual training camp in mid march down near St. Raphael was a wash out for the second half. It's usually wall to wall sunshine. Even when we have a few days proper weather for Spring here, it rains in the next few days. Or it's grey and just depressing, like today. Farmers are all getting depressed.
I think the perpetual greyness thats the worst thing. If it was absolutely biblical downpours, blizzards or thunderstorms then at least it'd be interesting.
But it just this constant blanket of nondescript, grey dullness that has just enveloped everything for what seems like an absolute bloody eternity. Its utterly depressing
I had a cheeky pre-work ride planned this morning. The bike stayed in the garage and I went for a run instead.
I think mine might have reached the dizzy heights of 5deg but TBH I was paying more attention to avoiding the lakes on the road while trying to peer through torrential rain & wipers on double speed!!
I'm supposed to be out riding tonight so I guess the chance of a nice pint outside at the end will be remote :/
Can you imagine what it'd be like living in Calfornia with almost constant wall to wall sunshine, lots of golden sandy trails and forests to ride almost all year round with perfect weather, torture.
My bro in law is flying in from his home in Manilla today because he thought it would be nice to visit the UK in May.
Boy is he in for a bit of a shock!
I'm contemplaing buying a new waterproof for the summer ahead. And we still have to have the central heating on as its v cold at night - its almost bloody June for christs sake 🙁
But fear not, I'm on hols 10th - 21st June of June and legend dicates that whenever we go away the uk experiences a heatwave.
Can you imagine what it'd be like living in Calfornia
An acquaintance lives in San Diego and they hardly ever think about the weather. It rains (heavily) right on schedule one afternoon then the sun comes out and it dries up.
That's it there is no weather as such
Nice, but just think of all the fun you'd miss not slithering around in the mud.
Good for the skills 🙂
+1what can you do other than don some decent kit and go out and have fun.
Just driven back over Strines in the Dark Peak - water running off the moors in torrents, lots of standing water. The peaty bits will be a bog this weekend. 🙁
We now to blame:
teamhurtmore - Member
Please don't (if you use them at all), it will start to rain if you do"
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/mudguards-is-it-safe-to-take-them-off-yet
Plus me, as I bought some new RR tyres last week! Great timing 🙁
I am going out tonight come what may - nice ride, a bit of wendy (Chelski) and the light entertainment that is Shuralan. Log fire sounds like a good idea. Now where is the cold weather kit.....?
Chuffin warm when the sun does come out though!
It's not easing up yet. I may have to resort to going swimming tonight instead
If I look out the windows on the north side of the building the chances of a dry ride home looking slim, if I look south its going to be a lovely sunny ride.
Arranged to go on a 2 hour ride on Sunday morning - indoors! Hooray for velodromes!
Riding 5-8 felt like July, Then torrential rain on way home bought me back to November - I have never seen such appaling road conditions. Really scary driving!
Well in the end is wasn't that wet on our evening ride, sure we all got a bit splattered but it was sunny & I got the wind direction right with the route I chose 🙂 and apart from the heaters not working outside at our pub stop the pint was great.
Though my mate who remembered he had left his CamelBak at the pub 5 minutes after we set off is a plonker 😉
Put the heating back on this morning.
This evening I took mini-aracer to the FoD for a bike race and we got a lovely warm(ish) sunny evening for it. Quite pleasant to sit around outside and watch kids riding their bikes around. We then sat by the river to eat our sausage and chips supper. I don't know what you're all complaining about.