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Is it safe to cycle home this evening...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Taboola


    I almost got blown off my bike twice and skidded just as I was coming into my driveway. Tough enough cycle. Won't be doing it tomorrow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    It fine out there this morning (in north Dublin anyway). Blustery and wet but very mild.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭strmin


    It was brutal in Phoenix park yesterday evening. Had to put my foot on the ground once just to keep balance. But I could hear gusts coming before they hit me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,188 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Forgot my waterproof trousers this morning. Will be a long time with the ****ty haridryer in the shower rooms and these jeans!


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    "Teresa, I forgot me feckin trousers!"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭laraghrider


    I cycled home yesterday, Eastpoint to Tallaght. I was blown off the road twice and strangely onto the road once from the cycle path!

    I did manage to keep it upright but when I got home I was mentally exhausted and my arms were burning from trying to keep the bike facing front. I almost hit a poor soul after coming over the bridge at harrolds x a gust caught me and sent me off the road and into the window of the bike shop. Poor chap walking around the corner almost got me head on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭onmebike


    I chose to leave the bike in work and get public transport home as it was beyond what I considered safe. The trip took about 75% longer, but I've no stories to tell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,136 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    It fine out there this morning (in north Dublin anyway). Blustery and wet but very mild.

    I think that is what is called the eye of the storm, cos since 8 itts been lashing it down. Got soaked coming in to town this morning but wind not an issue.

    There is a certain zen like zone when you reach peak wet, you can't get any wetter and you can't but smile about it.

    Course, it helps that it's relatively mild


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭jon1981


    That quite frankly was the wettest day I have experienced all year. The rain was coming from all angles along the quays in Dublin! ALDI gloves soaked through, DHB overshoes didn't hold it back either, probably due to the little air holes in the souls of the spd-sl shoes. Serious amount of surface water. This jacket played a blinder - http://www.wiggle.com/dhb-eq25-waterproof-cycling-jacket/ not one bit wet inside, got it on discount for 25euro so makes it all the sweeter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭daragh_


    +1. Epic Downpour on the way. Was fun!

    Cyclo-Humour-sous-leau.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭TheNap


    The Phoenix Park was a nightmare yesterday evening . This morning i got so badly soaked i couldnt help but laugh as i was cycling.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Enjoyed that - it does help that my commute is <3k :-P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    stevek93 wrote: »
    Cycling home there around 4.15pm, very strong gusts nothing to exciting now. The 5kg bag of potatos seemed to help stick me to the road.

    These lads could use that tip... :D



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,527 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Weather not too bad here this morning but did my first wimp list of the season anyway. Don't regret it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭mcgratheoin


    Took 10 minutes longer than usual yesterday - pretty epic wind. I'd have to say that in fairness drivers seemed to take an extra wide line when overtaking - I was pleasantly surprised. Ended up out of the saddle wrestling the bike downhill into a headwind at one point. Hope everyone made it home ok, I was nearly blown off a few times myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Yesterday was mostly fine except for one gust that forcible turned my wheel a little bit, that was an alarming moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭Enduro


    This morning's mid-commute downpour was probably the most extreme I've encountered this year. Visibilty was degrading rapidly from the thickness of the rain! Thankfully I've been using a new jacket for the last few weeks, and decided to try my test pair of running leggings made from the same material. Was bone dry underneath the shells. Amazing new material/tech. Blows goretex and equavalents away.

    (And thank feck for Shimano MT goretex boots... come into their own in this weather).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭Fian


    I left work early yesterday, shortly after 3pm, because I had to attend a parent teacher meeting. It was getting worse as I went home but shortly after i got there the rain started and the storm arrived. I had to go out to secure a flapping fence and to take down the basketball net in case it was blown over. Was glad i got home before the real winds arrived.

    Came in by bike this morning, waited for a break in the rain and arrived dry apart from damp runners from puddles. Passed alot of irritated motorists stuck in traffic.

    Monday on the other hand was a bit hairy, a little old lady rear ended me quite hard, she was behind me as we both passed a stopped bus, there was not room for a car with the oncoming traffic and i think she panicked with the traffic coming against her and was trying to get back in. I got a fright but managed to stay on the bike, got very angry initially but by the time I could speak to her (when she was forced to stop at the next lights) I realised she was probably over 70, so I told her calmly that it was dangerous and could have been much more serious and left it at that. I hope it was panic and not irritation that a cyclist was impeding her progress, anyway will have to give her the benefit of the doubt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    Bad karma on the driver that decided drive through a puddle and soak my 6 year old. All you had to do was hang back for two seconds or drive around it, there was no oncoming traffic. You could see there was a small child on the footpath.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,286 ✭✭✭kenmc


    Was a bit of crack on the cargo bike last night, like cycling a parachute (bullitt with child canopy in front). Leopardstown to goatstown via Sandyford industrial estate - that place is windswept even on the calmest of days, a microclimate to itself. Anyway, made it in one piece. Was grand coming in this morning although it seems to have picked up since, although there was pretty incessant rain just after i dropped the kids at creche....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭davidsatelle100


    :mad:
    Bad karma on the driver that decided drive through a puddle and soak my 6 year old. All you had to do was hang back for two seconds or drive around it, there was no oncoming traffic. You could see there was a small child on the footpath.

    Seen a lot of that this morning, lots of frustrated commuters out there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,286 ✭✭✭kenmc


    onmebike wrote: »
    I chose to leave the bike in work and get public transport home as it was beyond what I considered safe. The trip took about 75% longer, but I've no stories to tell.
    username fail


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Peck3277


    Going home last night I was blown every which way, especially once I had the shopping in my backpack.

    Other than getting soaked to the bone this morning it was grand. A few motorists were considerate enough to let me out when they normally wouldn't, probably felt sorry for me. On the other hand there were quite a few motorists out there who couldn't give a damn and just ploughed through puddles of water soaking cyclists and pedestrians alike


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,286 ✭✭✭kenmc


    :mad:

    Seen a lot of that this morning, lots of frustrated commuters out there.
    Funnily enough I thought that traffic was lighter than normal this morning!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Seen a guy cycling along Strawberry beds this morning at 8.30:eek:

    Jesus, gusts where so bad I lost my breath a few times, and I was in a car!!:P

    Fair play to that hardy soldier, I gave him a thumps up but not sure he even seen it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    kenmc wrote: »
    Funnily enough I thought that traffic was lighter than normal this morning!

    It was manic up around me (Carpenterstown) - I had to drive my little fella to school. Normally, it's waterproof leggings and a jacket on and brave the elements, either cross bar or he''ll cycle, but this morning he was having none of it.

    Managed to get up a little early and drop before the really manic stuff started. It's funny - every school news letter we get advises drivers dropping children not to do what they were doing this morning - stopping off at double yellow lines, blocking neighbours driveways and roundabouts. Our local Spar, used an an overflow car park for use by school runs, was blocked by idiots who insisted on driving in, dropping at the entrance, then trying to do a 3 point turn to exit, thius adding to the mayhem. Now I know why I cycle!

    Back to the house, ditched the car and took the bike - was still torrential and traffic around castleknock was crazy. Funnily, once I entered the park it had calmed down a bit, and the quays were relatively clear.

    One word of caution -flooding was so bad that a lot of man hole lids had blown, water streaming out of them. A neighbour of mine had a bad accident when he hit one of these a few years back in similar circumstances. "If you can't see the bottom of the puddle, don't cycle into it" as they say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭NeedMoreGears


    Had already decided to wuss out yesterday before I saw the wind level. Glad I did.

    This morning was generally not too bad but very slow against a strong wind - the rain was pretty heavy at times and the jacket leaked a small bit, but I stayed warm enough. Looking forward to the homeward leg along Clontarf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Worst isn't a strong wind, it's a gusty wind that'll throw you in front of a car. Pretty gusty this evening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭aquinn


    It's actually ok this evening as the wind has reverted to usual direction. Bit difficult starting off so go with care.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭Fian


    Sounds pretty gusty out there alright. Will be a careful cycle home, well will judge when i get outdoors whether it will be a luas or a cycle actually.

    My 11 year olds football training is showing no sign of being called off this evening O.o

    If you spot any small kids in Kilmacud Crokes gear blowing past overhead this evening try to catch them as they land please.


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