Fair Weather Cycling

dario28

I have only been cycling to work a few weeks and managed to avoid the rain....

Tomorrow looks like its gonna be wet wet wet....

When is it too wet to cycle a road bike into town ?

Any tips for not sliding under a truck etc

petethedrummer

dario28 wrote: »

When is it too wet to cycle a road bike into town ?

Never if you have the right clothing.

dario28 wrote: »

Any tips for not sliding under a truck etc

Cycle Slower.

lukester

dario28 wrote: »

When is it too wet to cycle a road bike into town ?

Morgan

dario28 wrote: »

When is it too wet to cycle a road bike into town ?

Never

dario28 wrote: »

Any tips for not sliding under a truck etc

Don't lean over at extreme angles on slick surfaces while adjacent to trucks.

Acoustic

lukester wrote: »

why is there always somebody with a pic ???

dont you's work at all

the youth of today haha

dario28

Great tips thanks ...fookin gas

I may write a book entitled "Cycling to work in the rain"

Ill include the tips and use the photo as the cover

you will all be reimbursed for your efforts !!

ednwireland

stay off white lines (esp when cornering) or take it gingerly on any that you cant avoid, goes double for manhole covers (and tram/rail ) lines, cattle grids can be very nasty when wet as well.

edit:
that black tar used to seal the edge of road repairs can be incredibly slippy as well

fletch

Morgan wrote: »

Don't lean over at extreme angles on slick surfaces while adjacent to trucks.

Only cross Luas tracks at exactly 90%....I crossed one last week at 89.5degrees and at about 1kph and my rear wheel managed to slip about 30cm :eek:

Beasty

Look out for the shiny "join" between new and old tarmac (I find them very slippy when wet), and also puddles if you don't know what they are covering up (such as potholes or manhole covers!)

rebel.ranter

Here in Cork they use "designer" brick work on the pedestrian crossings at some city centre locations & they are lethal in the wet.
So be careful when going over shiney cobbles.

km991148

crashing this thread slightly, but is related - what is the 'right' clothing. I normally commute a fairly short distance so get changed anytime after it *really* chucks it down, but started doing longer spins at weekends and got caught out big time yest in cloth shorts/cloth teeshirt and was soaked through and freezin. Gonna try this wexford charity cycle and was thinking:

*proper* cycling shorts under my regular shorts
rain jacked taped/stuck with velcro to the frame if looks like rain;
some kind of bse layer to keep off the chill if I get wet

anything else???