The wimp list ...

magicbastarder

roads? this is alek. where he goes, he doesn't need... roads.

CramCycle

Time to dig out the winter gloves, knuckles were unhappy this morning.

Alek

What were the roads like?

Small patches of black ice (shining in the moonlight, so I could actually see it!) starting from Featherbeds, but everything above Lough Bray was pure white frost. Had to be super careful on GP4000S... going down was slower than up

Macy0161

Regretting not being on the wimp list now - bloody freezing outside in Dublin 4 compared to this morning!

Seaswimmer

Alek wrote: »

60km in the morning at -3C: home>Kippure>home>work.

Anyone feeling motivated? :P

Still at that mad stuff!!

Havent seen you on the commute for a while. Still in the same job??

Alek

Still in the same job??

Yep, just leaving home later than I used to due to kids and school (8:20), and I'm usually 8:50 in the business park. Wasn't able to catch you since!

ford2600

magicbastarder wrote: »

added my name to the list today. have a head cold, didn't fancy 20km in the dark @2C.

Might have done you the world of good.

Anytime in the past while I felt a bit of a cold coming on I may myself swim in sea rather than put it off. 10C water in January at 7am in your togs might not seem like a cure but I always improved.

Lots of the more experienced swimmers reported the same.

In saying than the calmness of the sea could be a long way from your commute...

Pinch Flat

ford2600 wrote: »

Might have done you the world of good.

Anytime in the past while I felt a bit of a cold coming on I may myself swim in sea rather than put it off. 10C water in January at 7am in your togs might not seem like a cure but I always improved.

Lots of the more experienced swimmers reported the same.

In saying than the calmness of the sea could be a long way from your commute...

Went in for a dip in the sea off of Tramore last Thursday. Absolutely wonderful!

Wishbone Ash

Add me to the list - when I heard the rain beating off the Velux windows at 5am, the car seemed a more attractive proposition.

Plastik

Great morning to be on the bike. I must have passed 1,000 cars between Bray and D2.

magicbastarder

me too - head cold, plus flooding in clontarf apparently, which i pass close enough to when cycling.

Pinch Flat

Plastik wrote: »

Great morning to be on the bike. I must have passed 1,000 cars between Bray and D2.

Yeah it was lemming central from Dublin 15 this morning. Bus lanes packed with cars. Queue of cars pretty much from Castleknock to Park Gate Street. Still took me the same to commute - 30 minutes door to door

Fian

I managed to find a window between the rains - travelled in from 8:40 to 9 and barely damp, apart from my runners from puddle splashes. Certainly not soaked through. I had brought a spare pair of tights & shorts for return trip but i won't need them.

Traffic was terrible (in car lane), guess we haven't had much practice with rainy weather this year.

Heading to the canaries tomorrow so was basically pleased to have bad weather to say goodbye to

daragh_

Total free for all going on my during commute. Multiple cars in the segregated bike lane through Blackrock, cars driving in bus lanes, passengers opening doors while in traffic, u-turns with no indicating.

In fairness water falling from the sky is terrifying. If only way there was some way to predict it happening.

cython

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Yeah it was lemming central from Dublin 15 this morning. Bus lanes packed with cars. Queue of cars pretty much from Castleknock to Park Gate Street. Still took me the same to commute - 30 minutes door to door

Did similar, chaos along the road by Castleknock College, and flooding under the M50 bridge over the Carpenterstown road. Traffic was backed up from the cross east of the school to the Carpenter. I breezed by most of it, and probably came across as a loon chuckling to myself and smiling going through said flooding, when cars were reduced to taking it in turns to take the centre of the road!

Bit of a hairy moment going through Kilmainham when a driver in the right hand lane for Inchicore decided to just pull left around a right turning car into the space I was planning on filtering through and my brakes were wetter than I had given credit for! Thankfully there was space to go further left or I'd have come a cropper.

Had been considering the train in, but seeing as I'd have been as wet from the walk to the office, the bike was a better alternative, all things considered. Once Luas cross city opens and i can get that to the door from Boombridge, that may change, mind, at least inbound!

Adding my almost 4 year old to the list, asked was she not getting her bike ready to go to pre-school and I got the "are you kidding me " look

C3PO

Left Shankill to cycle to Ballsbridge at 5.40am ... really shouldn't have but find it hard to resist an adventure!! Pretty dangerous in spots, particularly on the Rock Road which was a lake in places - spent a lot of time in the outside lane nervously looking over my shoulder!

Seaswimmer

daragh_ wrote: »

Total free for all going on my during commute. Multiple cars in the segregated bike lane through Blackrock, cars driving in bus lanes, passengers opening doors while in traffic, u-turns with no indicating.

In fairness water falling from the sky is terrifying. If only way there was some way to predict it happening.

I went through Blackrock at 7.45 and everything was still fairly normal. The cars were backed up well before Temple hill but the cycle lanes were free.

Bad floods outside Frescati and Willow Park but signaled right, moved out into the overtaking lane and back in after the flood. No problem from the cars at that stage. What time did you go through Blackrock at??

daragh_

Seaswimmer wrote: »

What time did you go through Blackrock at??

About 8:35. It was complete gridlock - backed up all the way from Kill Avenue, down Stradbrook and as far as the Blackrock Clinic - where there was some traffic movement - but still several frustrated drivers driving up the bus/bike lane as far as the RDS

Cars were driving in the bike lane going down Temple Hill, trying to get in to the left hand filter and escape - but ended sitting there blocking the bike lane.

Further down, across from the Garda Station cars were mounting the bike lane curb, trying to escape the gridlock by going up Sweetman's Avenue.

P_1

Adding myself to the list courtesy of a nice bout of flu. Would have been mixing it up in tme mess that was Blackrock if I was healthy. Sometimes being ill can have benefits I guess.

homer911

Lots of flooding at Foster Avenue this morning - the raised cycle path was under a couple of inches of water!

bbolger

In from Skerries to the city @7am this morn.
Mild and very little wind so not too bad overall other than the obvious drenching...

Wore a pair of sailing gloves to keep the hands warm, perfect in that rain.
Also attached an ass saver onto my rear mudguard to extend it, for my fellow commuters/club mates

Danjamin1

I started driving to work this morning, took me 30 mins to get from my front door to the bridge over the M50 (about 1km) then another 30 mins to go the next 3km before I hit gridlock again. 60 mins on the road & I got less than half way in to my commute. I turned the car around & drove home (took me less than 10 mins). Got the bike out & was at my desk within 45 mins. I reckon I'd have been sitting in traffic for 2.5-3 hours in total to get to work in the car. My commute is 10km door to door. I've reaffirmed my love of cycling this morning.

John_Rambo

I cycled in with my 6 year old. He did really well, miserable conditions. Every puddle was hit.

Traffic was at a standstill on the Howth road in Dublin. 99% of cars had one person in each of them. Most on phones.

Pigeon Reaper

bbolger wrote: »

Wore a pair of sailing gloves to keep the hands warm, perfect in that rain.

I did the same with a pair of neoprene sailing gloves. Toasty warm hands if slightly damp.

Wimp here, not a chance I was cycling in that this morning.

Fian

Grayson White Ballerina wrote: »

Wimp here, not a chance I was cycling in that this morning.

I'm far too much of a wimp to squeeze into a hot damp luas, along with a crowd of grumpy, dripping and personal space invading strangers, to face the alternative.

Much less daunted by cycling in the rain than facing into that! Buses, especially with the traffic delays, would be even worse again.

Fian

Fian wrote: »

I'm far too much of a wimp to squeeze into a hot damp luas, along with a crowd of grumpy, dripping and personal space invading strangers, to face the alternative.

Much less daunted by cycling in the rain than facing into that! Buses, especially with the traffic delays, would be even worse again.

I drove in. I don't regret driving in but I reeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyy wish I had my bike to get home now.

billyhead

Commuted on the bike this morning from Rush. Left at about 7am and although the roads were flooded I actually enjoyed it. The only problem now is the cold snap expected over the next few days might cause ice:(

Idleater

I'm a wimp: my saddle was soggy from being out in the rain all day!