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  • #2282
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭De Bhál


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



  • #2283
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭De Bhál


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

    this again



  • #2284
    alentejo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭alentejo


    It was character building on the bike this morning



  • #2285
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Remote today, definitely wouldn't have wimped out 👀



  • #2286
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭Macy0161


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

    I think this morning was karma for this comment!



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  • #2287
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭cletus


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



  • #2288
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭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



  • #2289
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭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 😞



  • #2290
    bilbot79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭bilbot79


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



  • #2291
    ARX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭ARX


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

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



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  • #2292
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭De Bhál


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

    not at all, apologies if I came across as short



  • #2293
    bilbot79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭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.



  • #2294
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭cletus


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

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

    Post edited by cletus on


  • #2295
    JMcL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭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 😅



  • #2296
    traco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭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??



  • #2297
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,015 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


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

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



  • #2298
    MojoMaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,549 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


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



  • #2299
    bilbot79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭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.



  • #2300
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,621 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


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



  • #2301
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,088 ✭✭✭✭dahat


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

    Zwift it is.



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  • #2302
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,021 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #2303
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,015 Mod ✭✭✭✭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



  • #2304
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,621 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    I might pass on cycling today.



  • #2305
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭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



  • #2306
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,664 ✭✭✭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.



  • #2307
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,621 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #2308
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,021 Mod ✭✭✭✭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...

    IMG-20241207-WA0003.jpeg


  • #2309
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,621 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


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



  • #2310
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,094 ✭✭✭✭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).



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  • #2311
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,621 CMod ✭✭✭✭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!



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