The wimp list ...

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dahat wrote: »

Looked the window and damp roads with rain... Back to bed for me...

My only good reason was I spent ages cleaning the bike last week and the thoughts of my shiny clean bike getting manky again was a major factor.

Talk about a late bump lol..

But I'm terms of keeping the bike clean, in autumn / winter I wax the frame using carnauba wax, you can literally wipe the dirt off with a kitchen towel afterwards!

magicbastarder

had been planning on tackling kilmashogue at lunch, but not with a 30km/h southerly. it's bad enough without it.

Fian

magicbastarder wrote: »

had been planning on tackling kilmashogue at lunch, but not with a 30km/h southerly. it's bad enough without it.

Don't really think this counts for the wimp list tbh. I feel a remarkable lack of guilt for similarly not deciding to pop up to Kilmashogue during my lunch break, regardless of the weather. By implication you did cycle into work.

C3PO

Looking pretty rough out through the window here in Ballsbridge ... straight into the wind and rain out to Shankill!!

07Lapierre

Looks like a tailwind for me all the way home!

LollipopJimmy

I just had to nip to our office around the corner, I am soaked. My bike shall be sleeping in the office....

Ray Bloody Purchase

To be fair, i'm originally from Galway and this type of weather is nothing new. Having said that, i never had to fcuking cycle in it when i was down there.

magicbastarder

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I just had to nip to our office around the corner, I am soaked. My bike shall be sleeping in the office....

if you're already soaked, nothing more to lose!

LollipopJimmy

magicbastarder wrote: »

if you're already soaked, nothing more to lose!

Back in the office now in work clothes. I just can't face the canal and there are minor floods everywhere

Ray Bloody Purchase

45 minutes on the bike or two hours stuck on the smelly bus??

LollipopJimmy

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

45 minutes on the bike or two hours stuck on the smelly bus??

Well I managed to talk a lady into meeting me for food so the bike is loosing the now

Pigeon Reaper

nasty crosswind the whole way home. I wouldn't recommend it.

CramCycle

Got sent home yesterday, but called today to do a specific job that no one else could do. Drove in, and drove home an hour later. Glad of it to be honest as if I got the bus I may have killed off a large number of users of the 145 or 84.

Ray Bloody Purchase

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Well I managed to talk a lady into meeting me for food so the bike is loosing the now

Make sure you have strava on for your ride.

Pigeon Reaper wrote: »

nasty crosswind the whole way home. I wouldn't recommend it.

I'm looking out the window at the solitary tree across the road and the wind seems to have died down.

VW 1

Have to get to Ballsbridge to Finglas, only option would be a 30 min walk to a bus so no wimping here!

magicbastarder

hop on the 4 and change to the 9 anywhere between o'connell street and ballymun road?

VW 1

magicbastarder wrote: »

hop on the 4 and change to the 9 anywhere between o'connell street and ballymun road?

Tbh, I'd really rather cycle!

Wishbone Ash

Pigeon Reaper wrote: »

nasty crosswind the whole way home..

Yes, a few squeaky bum moments for me and I only did a short ride. The junction of Westmoreland St and Fleet St was like some sort of vortex. I nearly got blown under a bus!

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Tiny cycle this eve.

It's biblical out there

What Username Guidelines

One of the worst cycles I’ve had in a very long time. Usually 35-40 mins became 55. Soaked through within 500m of leaving the office. Almost every road had some form of flooding, some unavoidable. Some unbelievably impatient drivers, more blatant than usual light breaking, cars with no lights, and of course lots of mobiles out in traffic.

Clothes weigh about 3 times their usual weight. Now I’m plucking up the courage to go out and hose the crap off the bike.

Fighting Tao

Just over 6k. Usually takes me 16-17 minutes. It took over 22 minutes this evening. Cars blocking every road and junction. No room being left for cyclists as many drivers didn't care. Floods in many places. Anyone travelling between Sandymount and Ringsend will probably be took in traffic for an hour.

C3PO

That was as rough a home commute as I’ve ever done - really heavy rain, strong head wind and loads of standing water!! Massive pool of water on the kitchen floor .... that’ll go down well!!

micar

That was a wet one. 30 mins in the lashings.

All my wet clothes are in the bath where they will stay for the night.

Traffic was mayhem. Lots of local flooding.

Ray Bloody Purchase

I'm wetter than an otters pocket.

f1000

Well, that was fun and sketchy as hell. Felt like a salmon run

VW 1

Was wetter and slower than normal, but thankfully it's very mild temperature-wise out there. Wind had died right down too.

C3PO

C3PO wrote: »

That was as rough a home commute as I’ve ever done - really heavy rain, strong head wind and loads of standing water!! Massive pool of water on the kitchen floor .... that’ll go down well!!

That’s bizarre ... I’ve just gone out in the car and it’s dry and the wind has disappeared! Maybe I should start working until later!

alentejo

Managed to avoid rain this evening and left office 6. Not too bad cycle with no noticable wind. Lots of large puddles though! Traffic was as bad as I ever seen it.

Fighting Tao

So the wimp list is filling up with us who didn’t wimp out. Where have all the wimps gone?

John_Rambo

Fighting Tao wrote: »

So the wimp list is filling up with us who didn’t wimp out. Where have all the wimps gone?

Here.

Drove the kids in to school, ditched the car and got the DART.

(I'm obviously using the kids as an excuse)