The wimp list ...

De Bhál

Drove to work this morning. Shite morning in north Dublin city.

De Bhál

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122255468#Comment_122255468

this again

alentejo

It was character building on the bike this morning

Macy0161

Remote today, definitely wouldn't have wimped out 👀

Macy0161

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122357780#Comment_122357780

I think this morning was karma for this comment!

cletus

I went for a run. Does that count as not wimping out?

De Bhál

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122362164#Comment_122362164

it does, and fair play, but this is a wimp list on cycling forum.

Lack of school traffic is making driving too easy so I'm signing in

cletus

Well, I know it is. I was trying to get a little facetious or funny. I obviously failed, so I'll climb back into my box 😞

bilbot79

Days like today remind me what a mistake it was to get Carbon Rim Brake wheels.

ARX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122362770#Comment_122362770

Are they that bad in the wet? I was thinking about getting a pair.

De Bhál

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122362758#Comment_122362758

not at all, apologies if I came across as short

bilbot79

Mine are. I also know nothing about adjusting brakes so maybe I need to tighten them or something. Definitely terrible performance in heavy rain.

I got a pair of Reilly AR41s in the Wiggle closing down sale for 790 pounds and I don't mind them on dry days but in the wet it's awful.

cletus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122362825#Comment_122362825

Nah, your grand. Wait till I start posting photos I took on my kayak 😁

JMcL

Being sorted of forced to wimp out for the next 3 weeks. Our main car developed electrical problems and bricked itself a week before we were due to take the ferry for France yesterday. Plan B involved the much smaller 2nd car and the bikes were victim to having to pack minimally 😭. Might look into hiring while there, but couldn't fit my gear in either. Alternative is to get the start on a bit of running I've been promising myself for months, but will not, repeat NOT, be attempting to improve my swimming 😅

traco

Another wet one this morning.

I don't know cos I don't keep any hard data but it feels to me that since late April or May I have had more wet and windy commutes than I had through all of Autumn, Winter and most of Spring??

CramCycle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122366533#Comment_122366533

100% November and December, in my head, were way drier on average

MojoMaker

Reckon this has been the wettest post-Easter/early summer period in many a long year.

bilbot79

Came off the bike on Saturday morning. Turning a corner at no real speed and the bike went from under me. Reckon it was a layer of dust from a period of dryness that then just got a little wet and slippery.

The bike is fine. Just shifter knocked out of place a bit.

magicbastarder

every time in the last few days i've had a window to goo out on the bike, it's been poxy out.

dahat

Wind tomorrow looks too risky for most especially after 11am.

Zwift it is.

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122738682#Comment_122738682

I assume what you meant to say was that the wind tomorrow looks good for some PBs.

CramCycle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122739147#Comment_122739147

I am looking out my window and regretting the hangover that has made a few KOMs today a foolish idea

magicbastarder

I might pass on cycling today.

cletus

As will I, at least until this evening.

I did go so far as to look out the window this morning, before promptly returning to bed

secman

I did my Sat spin yesterday, thankfully had a day off and got a wet 85kms in yesterday . Club spin today automatically cancelled once weather warnings are in place.

magicbastarder

According to met eireann the wind was 56km/h at 9am at Dublin airport. I think the strongest I've been out in was just a little over 40.

Seth Brundle

Was out walking the dog earlier and it wasn't too bad until I passed Ryevale House (in Leixlip) where eight trees were blown down...

magicbastarder

Most of the (few enough) photos of downed trees I've seen this morning are of cypresses or similar. I.e. evergreen trees.

Wishbone Ash

I have to hand it to the few hardy souls who set out on the Gheimridh 200 this morning. 100km into a normal headwind would be bad enough never mind into a gale-force headwind. They'll be blown home!

(Some of us are doing it tomorrow instead which they have allowed).

magicbastarder

Mudderagod.

According to the met eireann app, it's currently a 50km/h north Westerly at Dublin airport. And that's the lowest I've seen it all day!