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I'm no wimp - I'm Simply the Best

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  • #152
    Sagi
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭Sagi


    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    I no longer consider it to be windy. From here on, these conditions will be known as 'normal' and everything else is just a bonus......

    Hm, I hope it is not normal having to get of the bike on the commute because I could not pedal against the wind anymore + being blinded by icy raindrops beeing smashed into my face...

    maybe I should go to the other wimps and enjoy a bit bonus weather:D


  • #153
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Enjoyed the spin in today...apart from the few times it felt like I was about to take off (I'm 60kg :P )


  • #154
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Was on the Singlespeed going home last night. Would have been faster walking a couple of times.

    Back on the winterbike this morning and I was grinning all the way in. Disc-brakes are the best thing to happen to me since I got decent mudguards.

    All I got were damp toes and an overwhelming sense of smugness.

    Ha. In your face Stormageddon. :)


  • #155
    Green&Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,434 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    5k communte, everything from the waist down soaked, its tough keeping clothes dry in a bag even!


  • #156
    MB Lacey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MB Lacey


    Cycled the 9k in, past all the standstill traffic, smiled at the sound of drivers beeping at each other, stressed to the max - happy I didn't drive and get caught up in all that stres - just cycled on by.
    I love cycling as a way of getting to work (getting about, cycling long distances at wknds, cycling in other countries....).


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  • #157
    Jabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭Jabel


    Fair play to all who cycled this morning especially in Dublin.
    I'm afraid I wimped out...


  • #158
    Hmmzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    Cycled and was feeling quite good about it. Except for a couple of :eek: moments with a crosswind and a taxi it was grand.

    Then at Leonards corner I spotted a fellow commuter on deep section carbon wheels (50mm at least) on a white Dolan (think it was a carbon frame) and I didn't feel that good about myslef anymore. Whoever you are and if you're reading this, I salute you! I don't think I'd be that brave or determined to go out in this on deep sections.


  • #159
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Hmmzis wrote: »
    Whoever you are and if you're reading this, I salute you! I don't think I'd be that brave or determined to go out in this on deep sections.

    Funnily enough while waiting at the lights at O'Connell Bridge, I saw a rljer doing what rljers do, and thought to myself what a clown, for cycling deep sections in this weather. :rolleyes:


  • #160
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Cycled in this morning but last night I was a broken man, up the N11, took shelter behind the slow moving buses. Had to wait at one junction to do a hook turn as the direction of wind was changing so much I couldn't tell where I had to lean. All was going well and slowly until a right turn in Stillorgan where the crosswind pulled the bike and myself in odd directions. I stayed on and kept a line but it was not pleasant. Then I got a tailwind the rest of the way home, which was nice.


  • #161
    NeedMoreGears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭NeedMoreGears


    Green&Red wrote: »
    .... everything from the waist down soaked....

    Yeah - it looked pretty scary out there :D:D:D


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  • #162
    check_six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    Must remember to attach the new brake blocks I got a few weeks back. My stoppingness coefficient was not as stoppy as I would have liked when people started jumping out at me from the pavement this morning. Two punters crossed my path at two incidents, head down, hood up, on phone, and in a hurry to get run over by me it would appear. You grab the brakes with all your might, but in your heart of hearts you know you're going to have to steer around these ding-dongs!


  • #163
    colm_gti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭colm_gti


    I have cycled in and out of work every day since I started back on the 2nd of Jan, rain, hail or shine I'll be on my bike :)

    I'd rather any weather on the bike than squeezing into the train and tube at rush hour!


  • #164
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    colm_gti wrote: »
    I'd rather any weather on the bike than squeezing into the train and tube at rush hour!
    Difficult enough to do that today from what SKY news says.


  • #165
    colm_gti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭colm_gti


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Difficult enough to do that today from what SKY news says.

    I am oblivious to any tfl strikes or disruptions whenever they happen


  • #166
    The Noble Nudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭The Noble Nudge


    Cycled last night I wasnt a wimp but awaiting a phone call about my broken rim so not so brave now.
    Snapped at the weld so hopefully its warranty and need to recheck and closely inspect the back again now too...........
    :(:(


  • #167
    mp31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭mp31


    Currently using Swiss stop black pads ... their performance over the last few days has been woeful.

    I'm thinking of getting some Kool Stop salmon pads as suggested by Sheldon Brown... does anyone use them and what are they like in the wet weather we've had the last few days?


  • #168
    quozl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    I use the Kool Stop salmons. I find them very good. Much better than the Tiagra pads I replaced with them.

    I've not tried Swiss Stop for comparison though.


  • #169
    MB Lacey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MB Lacey


    I have swiss top green and think they're great in the rain.


  • #170
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    I'm using Kool Stop salmons also. haven't been great in the rain at the mo but I suspect that's because they're so worn. They're very kind to rims also, don't seem to wear them away like the black BBB pads I was using before.


  • #171
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Ha ha I posted my 'I'm no Wimp' post in the 'Winter Wimp List' thread. Oh dear. I think some water must have gotten into my brain!
    Fairly miserable commute, straight into the shower when I got in. Was still damp from this morning when I got home this evening ugh!


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  • #172
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    125km tonight, soul building weather as they say. Gloves and shoes were soaked, and I got lost. Thank the Lord for google maps!


  • #173
    krissovo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭krissovo


    Zyzz wrote: »
    125km tonight, soul building weather as they say. Gloves and shoes were soaked, and I got lost. Thank the Lord for google maps!

    Feck me sideways, kudos to breaking a tonne. I managed 15k before I was blown off and ended up in a ditch!


  • #174
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    krissovo wrote: »
    Feck me sideways, kudos to breaking a tonne. I managed 15k before I was blown off and ended up in a ditch!

    If I had gotten out 2 hours or so earlier than when I actually left it wouldn't have been too bad at all! Headwind for the majority of the spin aswel which was hurtful to say the least :pac:

    Edit: Im also using the swisstops, amazing in the dry..terrible in the rain, make an awful sound aswel :/


  • #175
    Valentine1
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Valentine1


    Much Weather this morning, nearly found myself in difficulty when I pulled onto the canal to be met by an unexpected and ferocious gust of wind that left me stalled in the middle of the road with traffic approaching on both sides.

    I can't say I enjoy the (fairly short) commute in bad weather but it beats bussing/driving/walking by a long long way:)


  • #176
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Zyzz wrote: »
    125km tonight, soul building weather as they say. Gloves and shoes were soaked, and I got lost. Thank the Lord for google maps!
    .....and according to Strava, you practically passed my front door out here in the sticks! :D


  • #177
    slideshow bob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 367 ✭✭slideshow bob


    Valentine1 wrote: »
    I can't say I enjoy the (fairly short) commute in bad weather but it beats bussing/driving/walking by a long long way:)
    +1 on that.

    Very wet and windy in Galway this morning. Got blown to a standstill in a gust on one of the roundabouts. Scary stuff.

    Met Eireann indicate the trip home could be even more interesting:
    Winds will veer southwest to westerly later this morning and will increase storm force 10 or violent storm force 11, with some severe gusts.


  • #178
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Rough one okay this morning in Dublin - had what felt like the whole Sally Gap discharge on me from Lucan to City West. Head wind and sleet. Nice.


  • #179
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭kenmc


    This morning was fine, (well - "fine", not fine, it was pi55ing rain the whole way), but I think discretion is the better part of valor and I'll leave the bike in work and take the luas home. First time wimping in about 2 years :( There's only so much HTFUing you can do before crossing the line to stupid. Oh well.


  • #180
    Koobcam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 828 ✭✭✭Koobcam


    No feckin way am I cycling home in this weather..


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  • #181
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    kenmc wrote: »
    This morning was fine, (well - "fine", not fine, it was pi55ing rain the whole way), but I think discretion is the better part of valor and I'll leave the bike in work and take the luas home. First time wimping in about 2 years :( There's only so much HTFUing you can do before crossing the line to stupid. Oh well.

    I never thought I would look forward to working late. Here till 22:00 at which point the winds will be lighter and more to the point from the W or NW which blows me home..

    and it was S or SE this morning which blew me in..


  • #182
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,612 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Feckin blow-ins ....!!


  • #183
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    I never thought I would look forward to working late. Here till 22:00 at which point the winds will be lighter and more to the point from the W or NW which blows me home..

    and it was S or SE this morning which blew me in..

    Watch out for debris on the way. I know you've strong lights but take it handy.


  • #184
    nak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭nak


    Had to walk the bike out of work, almost blew out of my hands. Followed by a serious tailwind home along the canal. Felt very sorry for the people heading the other way.


  • #185
    stecleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭stecleary


    I cycled into work this morning but after a run in with a bus driver i swallowed all pride and handed the woman the "i picked you up from work" card to play for the next million days, a lord knows she will use it


  • #186
    Hmmzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    Hell, that was rough. For the first time while commuting I had to unclip due to the headwind/crosswind and put my foot on the ground to avoid getting blown over. Some of the gusts blew me to a near standstill no matter how hard I tried to keep going.

    Note to myself, next time in a hurricane take a taxi.


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  • #187
    the.red.baron
    Registered Users Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭the.red.baron


    lads the wind in Dublin was barely noticable. All bark and no bite


  • #188
    dermo1990
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭dermo1990


    56kph swirling head to crosswinds from town to rathfarnham, that was fun!


  • #189
    Seweryn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    Snow on my commute this morning


  • #190
    RayCun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    Discovered new gears I never knew I had on my walking pace cycle home yesterday


  • #191
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    Also had to walk the bike out of the car park in work yesterday. At the Dublin Mountain foothills there were some lethal gusts, seemingly from from all directions, that took the joy out of a tail wind back into town. Hats off to all those who were going in the opposite direction.


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  • #192
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    went out to do my usual spin this morning. Winds were generally consistent but every now and again you got a swirl that would make you wobble. Tough going but worth it


  • #193
    detones
    Registered Users Posts: 964 ✭✭✭detones


    Cycled into work today from North Co. Dublin, Balbriggan/Balrothery to Swords, trying to stop on black ice going down hill is no fun. As the thread title goes I'm no wimp but I am a lucky mother fooker, I'm Lucky I didn't come off a couple of times. I'll be leaving the bike at home next time there's frost on the Car. There's HTFU and then there's STUPID.


  • #194
    dermabrasion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭dermabrasion


    Yup, serious heebees this morning with ice/frost. Thankfully, Aircoach drivers are understanding and give a wide path.


  • #195
    Hmmzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    Did the commute but wimped out of the training session, too much ice on the roads for my liking. Will have to take the turbo out in the evening.


  • #196
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    dermabrasion wrote: »
    Thankfully, Aircoach drivers are understanding and give a wide path.

    That's a first!

    Rock Road and into town was grand. Bit of ice in the gutter here and there. Couple of dodgy crosswinds. Much nicer than yesterday.


  • #197
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Not much ice around my way. Did see plenty on the way up to Ticknock dropping of the kid


  • #198
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    the.red.baron wrote: »
    lads the wind in Dublin was barely noticable. All bark and no bite

    I'll go and tell the tree blocking the road around the corner to get off it's ass and don't be messing, and the neighbour with parts of his roof on the road that's it's all an illusion and he's only imagining the draft coming from his attic.


  • #199
    MB Lacey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MB Lacey


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I'll go and tell the tree blocking the road around the corner to get off it's ass and don't be messing, and the neighbour with parts of his roof on the road that's it's all an illusion and he's only imaging the draft coming from his attic.

    and I probably just imagined seeing the lamp post which had fallen on a car outside the sports centre in UCD yesterday.


  • #200
    MB Lacey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MB Lacey


    I've been cycling everyday for the last couple of weeks, the weather this week has been exhausting - but last night I got home and lay on the couch in shock.
    Cycled in again today, not so bad getting in, but there's a mention of sleet in Dublin this evening?
    I might treat myself to the Wimp list tomorrow.


  • #201
    the.red.baron
    Registered Users Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭the.red.baron


    Seweryn wrote: »
    Snow on my commute this morning

    Was there much wind around Killkenny on your commute yesterday? The place was almost shut down


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