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And whats it looking like? Its like being sat in your car in a carwash here. Horizontal rain and serious gusts. Pitch black too! 😯
I'm so looking forward to the 15 mile schlep back home
Whats it like with you?
Not I. And had I chosen to ride in this morning, I would have been.
Bit grim that, in't it?
Where are you? It's nice and dry here... for now!
That'll be on it's way over t'pennines then? It's just started spitting...
Like The World has ended here in Chadderton... but with additional rain.
it's only a bit of rain binners/hts you're not water soluble are you? HTFU 😉
gusty as hell, suddenly very dark, rain in all directions (even up 8O)
chose to ride in cos I got a new bike last night, looks like its gonna get very dirty 😆
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Like The World has ended here in Chadderton... but with additional rain.
You live in Chaddeton, you didn't go to Bluecoats did you?
I'm riding tonight in shorts and a short sleeved top.
Aren't indoor velodromes great! 😉
It's wet, windy and almost dark here too. Usual interval session cancelled in favour of going for a run instead!
I will, my bike could do with a clean.
very very wet and windy here in Bristol - looking forward to my bike being clean by the time I get home!
ME! Bring it on, MTFU man......
......I want my mum!
Just been out for a spin and got back as it started. Will be in my face rain uphill all the way home.
Seems ok in Pompey at the moment
Cycled in and will be cycling home! 😯
Wind calmed down a fair bit here in Glasgow. Ride home should be okay if a bit wet.
My route in to work was under a foot of water this morning, so I had to detour for only the second time in five years.
And I'm looking forward to tonight's mtb ride! 8)
I was pushed in this morning from Keswick to Penrith (with added rain). I suspect the journey home might be interesting. Luckily I avoid the A66 (and certain death). Usually fairly quiet on the back roads, but still 20 miles of rubbish weather - hey-ho!
Leeds is a bit wet and windy! Ride home and regular tuesday night ride too 😆
Its grotty in Glasgow.
Chewed my way in this morning comforted by the knowledge that at least on the way home the wind will be behind me!
I actually don't mind when its proper horrible for my commute, at least I know what's coming and there's a shower at either end.
Mainly wind here in Norfolk. was about 30mph this morning pushing my front wheel all over the place. I think rain is due just as I leave to go home.
Not me - shocking here in Bury really dark, wet and windy - i'm glad i got the bus this morning
Not me - shocking here in Bury really dark, wet and windy
That is where I am 😯
You live in Chaddeton, you didn't go to Bluecoats did you?
[b]LIVE IN CHADDERTON?[/b] #### OFF! 😉
Work there. Live in lovely Simister.
Wors - where abouts? In Whitefield by the Total Fitness.....i commute every day but thought better of it today 😯
Bottled it today. Can't be doing with that wind. Plus I had to pick something up from the post office. Prefer to ride though, so hope the wind dies down for tomorrow.
Other side of Bury, down Wellington Street opposite Elton Cars
Essex - Dark and windy, dry at mo but rain is in the post...
No problems in Laaaaaaahndaaan Taaaaaaahhhnn.
Well, it's flipping windy (very unpleasant in a couple of the underpasses) but no rain yet. Darker than a miner's pocket though.
Looked at the forecast for this arvo and drove in 🙂
Not wet in Hove yet either but windy and getting dark. Lucky the commute is 1/2 a mile!!
Come on - you live near Manchester and you are afraid of rain?
MTFU
*opens door from home office to landing and inspects stairs*
Reckon I'll cope.
This was epic for about 5 minutes. 50m visibility and a sheet of water running off the roof at 45°.
It has returned to its usual grey meh self now but one side of my car is considerably cleaner than it was this morning.
Getting pretty grim in nottingham so it should be pretty foul by the time i leave in an hour, but it's all time on the bike, so can't grumble.
Chewed my way in this morning comforted by the knowledge that [b]at least on the way home the wind will be behind me![/b]
That never seems to happen, particularly if I'm cycling along side the Clyde
Its still like a Harry Potter film here 🙁
*wanders off to see who's driving home my way later*
In Mancheter too - not riding home but night riding with the club 😯
Yes. Chose the wrong day for the first commute since January.
Biblical rain and wind, however the wind "should" be behind me on the 15 miles home. I hope.
only 2 miles home, uphill the whole way. Will be reet (not started raining here yet)
Yes I would never sit smugly through the day comforted by the belief in a tailwind home. I find always best to prepare mentally for the worst then I'm seldom disappointed. Would be soul destroying to expect a tailwind home then get the usual cross winds that come after a headwind in.
I'm in Eccles and I'm riding to Marple. Work finishes in 55 minutes. There's still time for it to blow over....
Lovely ride in this morning, 12 off road miles in 55 mins.
Gonna pay on the way home tho.
I can confirm that the sky has indeed gone out here in Knottingley.
Gale force wind and torrential rain. Now where did I put my brolly. Oh yes. I left in the car. Well that's just peachy.
Like a washing machine this morning; hoping for a bit of wind-assist on return trip.
12 of us out for a night ride in E Sussex tonight!!! Rain makes the Harveys by a log fire afterwards all the sweeter!!!
Just started hailing here in Notts
The rain at work is dancing a good foot of the tank park, horizontal with the wind and rather dark.
Love it 😆
not today, on the train as I am full of man flu, no its proper flu, really.
I am riding home, mighty rain has now stoppped but very dark and grim looking, got lights and waterproof gear, and want to go home, i'd best crack on!
I'm guessing it's a westerly as it's lovely in Hyde, the evening sunlight is casting a beautiful golden glow over everything
I got absolutely soaked in Manchester. But its stopped now and is nice and clearish with a beautiful sunset in stockport now 🙂
Wow! Actually its now clearing, the wind has completely dropped and the sky is amazing colours. Hey ho!
Walking home here just outside Southampton. The rain's stopped for now but if the BBC rainfall radar is to be believed the worst is yet to come.
Stopped raining here in Yorkshire but it is still darker than a Conservative's soul out there...
In Notts downwind on the way in right ....tard on the way home now with rain and no waterproof. Quite good fun in a sadistic way
Stoped and might be clearing here too, lots of water on the ground though.
He did email me for a lift.....just sayin'..... 😆
[url] http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ [/url]
Looks like the pac-a-mac is going to get shredded this evening.
nbt you can go off people...
the light rain has started here in hors ham should be chucking it down (according to BBC rain index) just as I leave for my 15 mile schlep home
Its howling a gale and the rains coming in sideways! 😯
The balloons gone up and mrs toppers is diverting to pick me up. 😀
Not possible very often so its a nice treat. Although I suspect i'm going to get soaked loading the bike into the car!!
MTFU boys and girls your skin's waterproof!
That was a bit of an epic! 26.4 miles of horizontal rain. Key 103 news reader lady said there was a tornado in Stockport. I didn't think it was that bad. Never mind, strike day tomorrow.
I am, but not far. Please take care, a cyclist was killed on the A590 in south cumbria this morning (no other details known).
It was torrential in Nottingham when I started getting ready to leave the office, and everyone laughed at me.
By the time I got out the door it had stopped, and it was a dry ride home. Came in the door feeling very smug and chipper....
...to be confronted by a pile of steaming coats and shoes in the hallway - apparently the walk home from school co-incided with the downpour 😆
Rode in this morning, was getting ready to come home when got a phone call from my wife
"don't even think of riding your bike in this"
Suitably told off got a lift in our van
Felt a bit of a cheat, but it was very gusty
Proper teeth gritter with a head/side wind in + side/head wind home.
The magic of Pembrokeshire 360 headwinds. Winter ITA.
18 miles home and no rain! Even had a tailwind 😀
A lot of standing water though and a monster hail shower 5 minutes after I got home 😛
Windy in this morning - but not too much rain on the way home - just a side-wind and I may have belted past the cute girl from the end of the office - what was I thinking!
I had to ride into work up on the pedals the entire way. Sweating like a pig once I got there.
Coming home tonight, WEEEEEEE!!! Matching cars on the flat. Legs were going quite fast though on a 75 inch gear.
I got damp on the way in, damp and windblown on the way home.
Well, the tailwind I thought I would have got, turned into a headwind.
Still better than driving though.
I cycled in this afternoon, pretty rough. Prior to, had lunch in a caf near my house that was subsequently hit by a tornado, in South Manchester!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-15948258
Part of a chimney fell on a woman but she doesn't appear to be seriously injured.
Bugger of a wind riding to work (newcastle from coast)
then tail wind woosh on way home.
Nice and dry on the way to work
nice and dry on the way home
Very lucky
First time i have rode to work since September as I crashed off my bike and suffered a plateu tibia fracture and 2 pieces of metal to hold my bone back together.
😀
Day off work today so went out for a 4 hour ride/fight with the wind- South Pennines- ok until it started raining and hailing as well. Totally drenched & frozen to the bone but still nice to be out riding instead of working.