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  • #1302
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    a grand cycle in this morning, a tiny bit of rain in the air in parts, but mild and no wind I could feel , hopefully whatever there is blows over by late afternoon

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  • #1303
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    I'm on herselfs bike. I look like a gorilla on a tricycle. Got a puncture coming home last night and out of all the inner tubes i have for different bikes, none of them are the right one FFS.

    I hope it isn't too windy on the way home.

    The brakes also squeak like a tortured goose on the bike.


  • #1304
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Doesn't seem that bad out to me, but I decided to work from home again today. I did manage to get out for a spin yesterday afternoon after the wind had died down so not too bad I guess.


  • #1305
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Doesn't seem that bad out to me, but I decided to work from home again today. I did manage to get out for a spin yesterday afternoon after the wind had died down so not too bad I guess.

    No, it's not too bad. I wouldn't call it stormy at all. According to the weather it isn't going to get any worse either.


  • #1306
    site_owner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭site_owner


    Felt a few gusts via the trailer but its grand in general around my school route.

    Heading to town this evening so will see how the clontarf track is at that stage


  • #1307
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Almost blown off my bike a few times on the rock/ coast road. So gusty. Once minute I rink I'm flying and the next going backwards, sideways.
    It's kind of fun :o


  • #1308
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Lads - this is the Wimp List thread!

    Those of you who cycled should be posting over in MB Lacey's "Simply the Best" thread! :D

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=87039483


  • #1309
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    nee wrote: »
    Almost blown off my bike a few times on the rock/ coast road. So gusty. Once minute I rink I'm flying and the next going backwards, sideways.
    It's kind of fun :o

    Probably for the best you didn't take my wheel bag, would've acted like a sail. I lost my leap card between Harry's bikes and the bus stop.

    Should've cycled


  • #1310
    Mercian Pro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »
    No, it's not too bad. I wouldn't call it stormy at all. According to the weather it isn't going to get any worse either.


    Not sure what "weather" you checked but you might want to try a more reliable one in future :)


  • #1311
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Looking out the window at the wind and rain... but working from home.

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  • #1312
    Grassey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    Might need to reconsider the return leg of the cycle home now....

    No jacket.... no public transport.... hmmm should be interesting....


  • #1313
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Probably for the best you didn't take my wheel bag, would've acted like a sail. I lost my leap card between Harry's bikes and the bus stop.

    Should've cycled

    Yup twas a fairly exciting cycle home - I was glad of spoked non sail cargo!


  • #1314
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,458 ✭✭✭Gerry


    Glad I didn't cycle. For me the wind would be a headwind on the way home..


  • #1315
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Add me to the list for today. When I heard the wind and rain, I reset the alarm for 30mins and took the car to work.


  • #1316
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,066 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Add me to the list for today. When I heard the wind and rain, I reset the alarm for 30mins and took the car to work.

    your going soft


  • #1317
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Think I broke the record for the slowest ever cycle down the north circular this morning. That headwind was a bit yikes


  • #1318
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Anyone cycle home this evening? The headwind was so tough, almost felt like there was two people on the bike. Went over one of the motorway passes and thought I'd be blown into the footpath


  • #1319
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,178 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    looks like tomorrow morning is due to be another blast. feels churlish to complain, after the summer we had, but it's getting a little repetitive.
    blast not used in the positive sense.


  • #1320
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Looks like most of the worse weather is on the wee hours.


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  • #1321
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    looks like tomorrow morning is due to be another blast. feels churlish to complain, after the summer we had, but it's getting a little repetitive.
    blast not used in the positive sense.
    I was just thinking that earlier today. I think I've been soaked more times in the past few weeks than in the past 10 years.

    (Our club ride tomorrow has been pushed back to noon to avoid the morning downpour.)


  • #1322
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,178 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Looks like most of the worse weather is on the wee hours.
    only if you're a late riser.
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  • #1323
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Anyone cycle home this evening? The headwind was so tough, almost felt like there was two people on the bike. Went over one of the motorway passes and thought I'd be blown into the footpath

    Heading sounthwest so it wasn’t terrible but it did seem to be picking up the closer to home I got. Just before home I head over the M50 and it was pretty ropey this evening.

    Joining the proper wimp list tomorrow for the first time this winter and working from home :(


  • #1324
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Yeah I think I'll have to make a call tomorrow morning on whether it's worth it. Hopefully it passes quicker than it's forecast to.


  • #1325
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,458 ✭✭✭Gerry


    Yup crossing the M50 was not pleasant. I had thought the wind was forecast to be south east but it was south west and more like west as I got towards home, so I diverted by the canal to keep things a bit more interesting. I think that's the commuting done for the year. Looking forward to picking a dry day over the Christmas to head out for a spin .


  • #1326
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Gerry wrote: »
    Yup crossing the M50 was not pleasant. I had thought the wind was forecast to be south east but it was south west and more like west as I got towards home, so I diverted by the canal to keep things a bit more interesting. I think that's the commuting done for the year. Looking forward to picking a dry day over the Christmas to head out for a spin .

    I got out around 4 and it felt south east heading up grand canal street but I could have been imagining things. Heading out the N81 seemed to be in my face so it may have shifted south west, but the N81 has always felt like heading into a wind tunnel even on calm days :)


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  • #1327
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Anyone cycle home this evening? The headwind was so tough...
    Eh, wouldn't it depend on the direction of travel?

    One man's headwind is another man's tailwind!


  • #1328
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Indeed, was headed southwest. Bit further west than most on here. Its not looking bad here in Limerick at the moment. Dublin looks to be getting the remnants of the stormy weather


  • #1329
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Anyone cycle home this evening? The headwind was so tough, almost felt like there was two people on the bike. Went over one of the motorway passes and thought I'd be blown into the footpath

    I did. I've a virus and i thought i was going to croak going up a section on strava known as the Ballycullen Hell Drag.

    It wasn't too bad this morning. Sounded worse than it was.


  • #1330
    triggermortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭triggermortis


    I've cycled in/out of work for the last 6 nights and tonight was the last of this shift, but just couldn't face the bike so took the car. Weather is probably one of the better evenings this past week but I'm wrecked


  • #1331
    Dr_Colossus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,161 ✭✭✭Dr_Colossus


    I got absolutely dumped on this morning going through the city centre at around 06:30, was windy and raining leaving the house but after about 20mins the sky opened and it was biblical with ponds of water all along the quays. One morning where the train would have been an option.


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  • #1332
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,178 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    not many cyclists out in dublin this morning. and that includes me (not being out).


  • #1333
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    not many cyclists out in dublin this morning. and that includes me (not being out).

    Well it is raining out.


  • #1334
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,452 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    not many cyclists out in dublin this morning. and that includes me (not being out).
    bazermc wrote: »
    Well it is raining out.


    Rain, Christmas drinking plans, early holidays


  • #1335
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    I did some light hiking in Wicklow instead


  • #1336
    LennoxR
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭LennoxR


    Yeah wimp list for me too. I usually try to get out a few times over Xmas but not this year. I think the repeated soakings finally caught up with me. That or the heavy drinking and eating I suppose!


  • #1337
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Anyone going to chance the cycle this morning, pretty noisy outside.


  • #1338
    C3PO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭C3PO


    Mc Love wrote:
    Anyone going to chance the cycle this morning, pretty noisy outside.

    Just got into the office in Ballsbridge from Shankill - wet but wind behind me so no problem! Going home will be another thing!!


  • #1339
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Likely to be the same for me as always! Got this reply on the weather forum
    White_hills wrote: »
    Few folk out on their bikes but I saw two people get off and walk as they were being blown about too much in Dublin 8.


  • #1340
    irishrover99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,033 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Likely to be the same for me as always! Got this reply on the weather forum

    Those weather forum folk fall over when they see a yellow warning.
    This is a winters day in Dublin and that’s it, or what they’d call in Belgium, Friday weather


  • #1341
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Its about 29/30 km/h winds here in Limerick. Not the worst I've experienced


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  • #1342
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Anyone going to chance the cycle this morning, pretty noisy outside.

    Didn't seem that bad on the way in, apart from through the exposed Phoenix Park.


  • #1343
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    No issues on my cycle in, was actually quite a nice morning


  • #1344
    irishrover99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,033 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    No issues on the way in and it was all cross or head wind.
    No rain at all.


  • #1345
    Mickiemcfist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭Mickiemcfist


    Strong Easterly gusts for me on the N11, not the most enjoyable but certainly managable. Came across a guy pulling a kid trailer, he was struggling with the gusts as the thing acted like a sail.


  • #1346
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    I got about 200 metres and was blown about 4 metres sideways across the road. Went back for the car.


  • #1347
    Skrynesaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    Bottled it this morning, afraid of the sudden lateral shift as you pass a gate might be the end of me.


  • #1348
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    It sounded worse than it was in Ballycullen (for me anyways). I'd usually fly into work on a day like today, but every bastard traffic light was against me this morning. I definitely could have cut at least ten minutes off the trip in if the lights weren't being so fooking awkward today. :mad:

    The cycle home is going to be a bitch though.


  • #1349
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    wasn't too bad at sandymount but at Grand Canal Dock station I had to brace myself , glad not to be on a bike this morning

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  • #1350
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Tailwind most of he way from west Dublin. Few hairy cross winds in the phoenix park.


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  • #1351
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,167 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Twas grand, one or two gusts but nothing to knock you off. Sounded far worse than it was.


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