Road Cycling

Well I'm considering if I want to ride tomorrow.

Temp : 1C
Rain : 100% chance of heavy rain all morning
Wind : 15mph with gusts up to 33mph

I always apply the rule of riding with two types of bad weather but not when there are all three together.
 
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This is the UK! It's always crap!

If it's sunny, it's windy too. If it's raining, it's cold.

I was hoping to get the Summer bike out again today, but I don't think it's dry enough out there yet :( (No mudguards + group riding)
 
SDK^ said:
Well I'm considering if I want to ride tomorrow.

Temp : 1C
Rain : 100% chance of heavy rain all morning
Wind : 15mph with gusts up to 33mph

I always apply the rule of riding with two types of bad weather but not when there is all three together.
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I'm going to take in the forecasts this evening - closer you get the more accurate it's likely to be.

Right now I wouldn't trust any forecast.

Hang on in there!
 
I actually think when you work it out the number of awful weather days in this country is fairly minimal. Last weekend rode my tt bike in wind and wet on the floor. But weekend before was lovely and dry.

Yes it can be cold or windy or wet but usually the weather isn't so horrendous or unpredictable you can't avoid it. This weekend is going to be wet but today is glorious here and I'm looking forward to a nice dry tt this afternoon. I've raced the last 3 weekends without leg warmers and the winter cx series only required them once.

Gave my winter bike a clean up yesterday on the drive train and only took couple of baby wipes to get it fairly clean. Rest of the bike is a bit dirty but would only take a 30 min good clean up to get it fresh as a daisy.

Hornet your views I believe are nonsense, if you actually sit back and think before typing what's on your mind at that point in time you may actually realise.
 
That's it really, I think we had one properly wet day here over Christmas and the weather hasn't been bad on the weekends since. If a bit of drizzle meant I had to go out on a nodder hybrid in waterproof trousers I would find a new hobby.
 
I've removed more argumentative posts. Hornetstinger will not be able to reply to any further posts you make in this thread so please let that particular conversation die.
 
Merlin good luck tomorrow. I would only bail off a ride like that if the weather is dangerous. Yeah it'll be grim at points buy others will be there suffering with you!
 
Thanks boys :)

No chance I'm bailing now, bike ready, various clothes set out, saddle bag checked and packed, everything charged, hq maps of west mids worcs warwks gloucs on garmin, started carbing up earlier - there's no going back now!
 
What time are you starting?

I'm riding from home and joining the route at Morton Baggot - about 6 miles in
 
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SDK^ said:
What time are you starting?

I'm riding from home and joining the route at Morton Baggot - about 6 miles in
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I'm going to be at the Wythall start point at 7.15am - register up then get the heck outa there - i really want to be out like ASAP. They're firing riders off in batches from 7.30am to 8am i think they said, so to a degree its going to be out of my control exactly when i get released.
 
Glorious day today, sunny with patches of clouds and 11 degrees. Far too nice to turbo so had a quick blast instead. Tfw despite the headwind you've caned the planned route and have to stick another 4 mile out & back on the end and still come in ahead of time :cool:
 
Cracking 50 miler today, still feeling the effects of my century ride on Thursday (again making the most of the weather!)

I think I'll give tomorrow a miss! Call me a wimp, but the forecast has it chucking it down from early morning, pretty much all day.
 
Is it complete anathema to buy a ten speed groupset these days? I'm about to start buying parts for a cross type bike (for trails, grim weather, winter) and I'm going for sram but rival is about £100 more than apex, at least until ribble get rival back in stock... is rival that much better than apex?

For reference I've used every shimano groupset up to 105, but nothing higher than that. No experience of campag or sram as yet. Can get veloce ten speed for £300, same as apex, for what it's worth...
 
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Is it complete anathema to buy a ten speed groupset these days? I'm about to start buying parts for a cross type bike (for trails, grim weather, winter) and I'm going for sram but rival is about £100 more than apex, at least until ribble get rival back in stock... is rival that much better than apex?

For reference I've used every shimano groupset up to 105, but nothing higher than that. No experience of campag or sram as yet. Can get veloce ten speed for £300, same as apex, for what it's worth...
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10 speed is cheaper to buy and cheaper to maintain. For a bike that gets grubby it makes real sense.

In fact, if you could still reliably get quality 8 speed bits i'd be running them in the winter. As it is I use veloce 10 speed on the winter bike and it's been brilliant, I've barely had to tweak the rear derailleur since I installed it 3 years back
 
So I battled through the headwind & rain and just as the sun came out and the route turned for a back wind my RD snapped off into my rear wheel.

Ride stopped

Grrrrr :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
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