[Closed] This weather is starting to get on my tits!!

I bailed on my bike commute again today, I hate not riding to work, if I come by car I'm sleepier and grumpier. Tomorrow - whatever the weather I'll be biking in. Hoping from trees that are not being blown to a 45 degree angle in the morning.

I had to avoid a dead christmas tree in the middle of the road this morning. Driven in each day this wk, can't be doing with dark,wet commutes with this wind (the meteorological phenomena not any intestinal issues).

toby1 - I feel your pain brother. I vowed to ride in this week. I rode in Tuesday morning and it felt really dodgy. Left the bike in work and got a lift home

Be very careful if you do tomorrow. Discretion is the better part of valour. I'm really ****ed off with not riding. But it actually feels genuinely dangerous in these side-winds

In fact, I'm really ****ed off with being indoors. Its shite!

Every pair of shoes i own is wet.

Your not wrong, i would rather have it cold and crisp than this rubbish.

I am off exercising this week, to give a chest/mucus issue a chance to clear up. Looks like I picked a good week to be ill.

I've binned biking, running off-road instead.

Have had enough of not being able to get out and ride 🙁

And to make matters worse, the 'winter skills' course (crampons / iceaxe arrests / avalanche awareness etc) that I was due to do this weekend in Snowdonia is not possible due to lack of snow!!! Would be more of a mud skills course at the moment.

Am now going slightly stircrazy

Grumble ... mutter ... moan ...

I know what you mean Sue. I'm getting proper cabin fever. I'm not designed to be indoors for this percentage of the time. Its rubbish.

Whinge... whine.... moan 😥

The only consolation is comfort food. I cooked us a lovely Hot Pot last night. It'd been in the slow cooker all day. Tastes so much better when you're listening to the rain and wind battering the windows 😀

Rode in this morning but there was some nice sidewinds, thankfully ALL the traffic was stationary due to various road being blocked due to felled trees. Cant be arsed about tonights nightride ride though.

Seriously ??

I'll take this dreich windy stuff any day over the foot of snow we had for two months last year in the town. Can still run, can still ride on the road, can still ride offroad, can still go hiking. Don't have to spend an hour digging the car out to get to work...

So your feet are wet, diddums... get some better shoes.

M.t.f.u since nobody else has said it

I've sacked off riding rhough being lazy/no where to wash bike/too windy, but I've been running three times this week and got soaked every time, so i'm even sick of that now 🙁

Got a good ride planned for Sunday with vortexracing around Rivi and 'apparently' the wind is meant to lessen 🙄

Hels. You're clearly insane. Riding in this is horrible. Riding in snow is a right laugh! 😀

May I suggest some people need to MTFU! and WTFU! 😆

Bugger too late

friday is supposed to be better ! thats in then ! roll on summer 😉 if we get one ? 😉

Looks out window at the gales coming straight in off the ocean ... checks met office - severe weather warning for north Wales, recorded windspeeds of 87mph ...

... contemplates suggesting that those who fancy getting on a bike, or hiking in the mountains, or going for a run, come over here give it a go - I'll just watch and laugh 😀

Will go and WTFU by making a cup of coffee and having a biscuit - can I get you anything Binners?

I'll ride in most conditions but the wind adding half an hour to a usual 1 hour loop, plus gusts when passing gateways makes it a bit silly.

Thanks Sue - just got a coffee myself too. I'm on the third floor up here. The horizontal rain is absolutely lashing against the window. My bike's downstairs. Its staying there too 😀

When you work outside it sucks balls! At least a foot of snow means I don't get here!! 5 out of 5 new properties have also sprung a leak this morning, I've found and resolved the issue on all 5 plots, however it wouldn't have been good had we been plastered and fully decorated! So the driving rain has been good for something!!

It's the middle of winter.

It happens every single year.

A period of unfavourable weather really shouldn't be unexpected.

It will improve.

Like it also does every single year.

So your feet are wet, diddums... get some better shoes

Lol... as Brits, we don't notice wet. Gales and lashing rain tend to disrupt cycling though.. my car got blown a foot sideways on Monday on the motorway, I'm sure I'd have fared worse on a bike...

I'll ride in anything (snow included) except high winds, and perhaps thick fog on busy or narrow roads. Although I will ride in fairly high winds if I can make it to the woods, since that helps a lot.

I'd definitely take the snow option over this crap. Snow:

- gets you a day off work, or more
- provides snowballs
- can be sledged or skiied upon
- makes everything look beautiful
- makes a fun change to routine
- can be used to make snowmen, build igloos and have no end of fun with your kids or other people's

Heavy rain:

- is crap

It's the middle of winter.

It happens every single year.

A period of unfavourable weather really shouldn't be unexpected.

It will improve.

Like it also does every single year.

Yeah we know that and I don't think anyone was suggesting otherwise.

I was all set to ride in this morning after 2 days of having to drive. Binned it when I heard the rain and wind this morning, it was proper lashing it down. Too dangerous on my road commute in those conditions and there were branches all over the place as well.
Got the train in instead and even on the walk from the station to work I still got soaked and windblown. 🙁

Give me snow and super cold weather any day over this.

It's the middle of winter.

It happens every single year.

A period of unfavourable weather really shouldn't be unexpected.

It will improve.

Like it also does every single year.

What's your point, caller?

I have been wanting to get out on the bike all week but I cant stand going out on my own when it is raining. I don't mind it starting when I'm already out or if I am planning to meet somebody I will go out.

Cor blimey you lot, listen to yourselves..

Are you all SAD sufferers?? I wonder because this weather we’re having is “like” normal, normal for this time of year, so it’s a bit windier, nice, it’ll blow the air clean and the water we need to top up reservoirs for sure (other wise you’ll all be moaning on about “I can’t water my petunias” in June)

I’m going windsurfing in a mo, it’s been a while since we’ve had mild temps and blowing old boots here on the sarf carst.. So I’m making the most of this.

Having said that, MrsBouys parents farm has lost a chimney and about to loose more tiles off the barn roof.. hey ho.

It's a tad unusual for January though, given when it should have happened we were basking in 30 degrees and on the beach.

The weather is definitely getting weird, can't personally remember Januarys like this, cold yes, wet yes but Typhoons?

I'm still cycling (36 miles a day), only been back two days and already it's starting to get to me. I do a mix of road and muddy cycle paths so I get plastered in mud everyday which just wears you down after a while.

Tuesday night a cross wind blew me into the kerb, lost the front wheel on some mud and fell into the road. Luckily the car following me wasn't too close otherwise i'd be flat by now! Fair play to the driver behind he stopped and checked I was ok, the only thing hurt was my pride 😆

On the bright side, we've had the shortest day so it's all downhill now, roll on the summer!!!

I wonder because this weather we’re having is “like” normal

We normally get a period of this then some quieter weather.. this has been unrelenting for a while now I believe. That's the point, I think some of us would like some respite.

(other wise you’ll all be moaning on about “I can’t water my petunias” in June)

Would we hell.

MTFU

Yawn. I don't have a car so i cycle twice a day everyday. Doesn't mean i have to enjoy it when it's dark, windy and rainy.

The only thing keeping me sane is my kettlebell routine and long runs in the evening, that way i feel that im not too cooped up in utter darkness 😥

I really dont handle the winters very well 👿

Saying that i had a good 30 mile road ride the other day, Slow but good to get the legs moving 😀

It baffles me why the weather affects people so much.

We live in northern europe, its cold and wet for 10 months of the year pretty much, why do people feel the need to constantly go on about it, and why do they let it affect their mood so much?

Life really is too short.

I must riding on the wings of lady luck this week -ridden home (20 miles) the past two days & intend to this eve. The winds have blasted me home, not even had a side wind to slow me down each day. I've shaved 10 mins off my commute 😉

smug of Northants

Exactly the same as toby1. Got all my stuff out last night ready for my 20 miles commute as the forecast said much lighetr winds and from the north west so a tail wind home. Got woken up about 4am by the wind battering the house and thought 'ah 2 hours for that to die down', woke at 6am and it was still blwoing again so had to give up on the riding to work again.

Looks much calmer now so at least I'll get out for a walk at lunch time and off tomorrow so should get out for a couple of hours.

It baffles me why the weather affects people so much.

Are you English, Sir? Clearly not! If you were, you be dashed well aware of one's moral obligations as an Englishman. One is obliged to drone on and on and on and on about the weather. I am not the one who made the rules, Sir! They were actually designed by a convoluted series of Whitehall committees. Anyway, I digress.... Ahem...... if we do not adhere strictly to the rules, then where would that bally well leave us? Eh?

Like France? [b]Like France, Sir![/b] France?! Do you want that? [b]Do you?!!![/b] Think on......

why do they let it affect their mood so much

Do you really want the answer to that? There are many good ones, if you are prepared to listen and learn.

warton - Member

why do they let it affect their mood so much?

Unfortunately i have absolutely no choice about this, BUT i know what works for me to help my mood in the near perpetual darkness that is the UK winters.

But im glad you are ok and doing well. But watch its a long way to fall off that high horse of yours 😀

Sun is shining up here, lovely day actually.

[i]*smugness alert*[/i]

I'm doing a 110 km road race in Cape Town on 11 March so need to start 2012 with a good level of fitness. I'm counting on getting a good ride on Saturday morning and a few more before I travel.

[i]this weather we’re having is “like” normal, normal for this time of year[/i]

Just noticed this post, 100mph winds aren't normal at this time of year. The rain doesn't bother me, getting pushed sideway by the wind into the path of a car whilst commuting does. Each to their own though.

It might be fine for windsurfing & mild on the south coast Bikebouy, shift a bit further north and the wind is stronger & cold.

People keep saying [i]"It's the middle of winter.It happens every single year."[/i] But we've had weeks & weeks of storms.

Well perhaps its because I'm getting old but when I started racing back in the late 70's I honestly don't remember many really windy days & back then I was always on my bike as I didn't drive.

Weather is getting on your tits?

Pics or it didn't happen. 😀

AdamW - Member

Weather is getting on your tits?

Pics or it didn't happen.

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Force 10 wouldn't blow that unit over!!!

Oh, with the MTFU comments, my commute is pretty much traffic free, so yeah, I'll be donning some bigger balls in the morning and riding in regardless 🙂

Happy days!

I'm back in lads.. hehehehe, had a fab 2.5hrs blasting around West Witts, blown out on a 3.2 and 75ltr board, to say it was a tad windy is rather an understatement. Bit side shore for propers wave ridin' but fabudingo for jumping... bailed out twice at about 30ft, go a bit scared... Nice.

I needed that.

Take it easy on th way home lads n lasses, unless it's blowing on your back it's gonna be another hard commute.

I'm in the club bar having a well earned beer with me mates, burp'idge.

why do they let it affect their mood so much

Do you really want the answer to that? There are many good ones, if you are prepared to listen and learn

yeah, please tell me. I'm not talking about SAD or whatever people call it. I'm talking about whiny people saying " oh god it's raining, I hate it", "Oh god its windy, I hate it"

It's weather, we have no control over it, why let it get you down, just get on with it. If it really gets you down that much, move to australia, quite simple really.

I will ride and generally go out in any conditions, couldn't care less, the best rides are normally the ones which look like they'll be the worst, wet, windy, cold, snowing whatever. Its's really, really not important.

I would like to retract my last statement...... 😯

Good for you Warton. You sound like a man's man.

Do you never get distracted by your rugged manly reflection in the puddles though? I know i would. 😉

Rain is cold and wet. Coldness and wetness is not a pleasant sensation.

Mud impedes my ability to ride because I lose traction. I go out to ride my bike, I don't care for larking about in the mud. Wind also impedes my ability to ride either by physically stopping me or making it dangerous. On the road I like to zip along, this is not possible in a 40mph headwind.

It might not be important to you, but it is to others. I do ride in bad weather, and I've had good rides in bad weather; but with all the stoicism in the world it simply is not anywhere near as nice as bombing along dusty trails in the summer sun. It just isn't.

It just isn't.

Don't you mean
'It isn't, It just [i]isn't[/i] [sob]' 😆

Good for you Warton. You sound like a man's man.

not really, I just think it's pointless to get pissed off about something that you have absolutely no control over. In much the same way, I don't scream and shout when I get paid every month, because the tax man has taken money from me, or moan about petrol prices. Its pointless and it puts you in a bad mood.

I'm not too fussed myself usually. Having spent all my life living in the NW of England. But, as has been stated by many, riding in Horizontal rain ain't exactly much fun.

But having done the 15 mile commute on Tuesday morning* in driving rain and gale-force gusts on the road bike, it had crossed a line from being merely unpleasant, into being downright bloody dangerous!

* which took 35 minutes longer than usual

I don't think there's owt wrong with having a bit of a moan on a biking forum. An English one at that. 😀 I haven't been out this week due to the high winds. Cold, rain, mud etc don't stop me, like someone else said it can be fun. High winds IMHO make it pretty stupid to go riding in the woods - you ever seen a tree come down? Or been blown off your bike? You can MTFU as much as you want but if you get hit by a tree or a 70mph+ side wind you is fect!

I've just come back from Austalia about three weeks ago, too blimmin' hot for me, I prefer it here. 🙂

Kev

I want this rain in may - our river is up almost 3 foot, which makes our local bit a decent swim through the rapids rather than being dragged crawling over a load of rocks, but the water temp is about 3 degrees or something ridiculous and it being winter I have a cold anyway.

It's annoying, only the second time it's been high enough in the last two years, and it's a brilliant little swim when it's going hard.

Don't you mean
'It isn't, It just isn't [sob]'

Basically yes 🙂

I don't moan about the tax man either warton. But there's a difference between complaining as if you expect something to be done about it, and merely commenting on something.

It is sh*t, and sometimes sharing misery makes people feel better. That's all that's happening here. However I would like to point out that I was not one of the ones moaning about it. I just like a good discussion.

You will find just as many if not more people on here going 'Isn't this weather fabulous? How wonderful, I'm happy to be alive and out on my bike!' when the next good spell comes along, which it will. Sharing joy instead of misery.

@globalti - Argus? You should give the Epic a go 😉

ridden in every day this week it's a challenge to walk past the van every morning and get peddeling loving it, road bike except for today as my shoes werent dry this morning so took the mtb. As I see it weather 0 sturmey 1