General Cycling Discussion - death to weather men!

THATS IT! thats two days in a row that the stupid weather channel have told me that expect t-storms in the afternoon. So I dont take my bike to work. When i finally set foot outside when i get off work and its beautiful!!! thats 2 days of no riding, and if i didnt live where i do, i would be out now! so right now I'm going to take my bike to work every day rain or shine! stupid weather people, i mean really... what do they know.. weather only moderatly predictable. These people get paid to do this! i quit, talk about needing NO talent or training what-so-ever!!!!
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!
makes me mad!

Attention, the rant is not over, management thanks your for listening

Hey ... I actually take my bike and leave it. Of course we have a very secure facility and I am not afraid of leaving it.

I actually have been able to ride between the morning and afternoon storms.

It is great to have a shower facility at work for those noon rides though. Unless you like being alone in the afternoon.

Unfortunately my bike is in the shop. Noise in the bottom bracket has down for a couple of days.

Have a great day!!

:thumbup:

Yes, weathermen suck, this is true.

Turn off the weather channel and go to weather.com (same company) and watch the doppler for your zip code, you can time your daily rides around the green blobs headin' your way.

It's updated frequently and you have the ability to zoom in. Pay no attention to the little clouds 'n sun graphics, that's just a weatherman in disquise.

Watch for green blobs.

This is what I've done after listening to too many stupid predictions.

I tend to pay them no heed. I look outside and if it looks doubtful I go to a local doppler radar picutre on the internet and see if there is rain coming this way. If not, off I go. Half the time dark ominous clouds only mean clouds not rain.

Same here. The last three days have been nothing but rain. I was all set to go out yesterday becuse it did not look bad. I was in the garage clipping in when this amazing downpour started. It did this for an hour. Needless to say it was too late to ride. Today it looked pretty nasty, but if I do not ride for three days I get pretty nasty. So I devided to go for it. 31 mi with big hills and some drops, but mostly bliss. Well that is if you consider 10 min climbs bliss.

Bring a raincoat and ride anyway.

Don't let the weatherman bring you down!

:D

Last night it was bucketing when I left work and it was still raining when I got home an hour later. I got wet so I had a shower, put the riding gear in the wash then dried it me and then the gear. Good thing about rain is the cloud cover keeps the air temp relatively high.
There are some people on this forum who actually prefer riding in the rain.

In Times Past people were familiar enough with their environs that they could predict the weather a day in advance merely by looking at the sky and feeling the wind. Heck, my father can even do it with a fairly high degree of accuracy. It comes from observation and memory and living in the same place for a few years to familiarise yourself with the local weather patterns. Ditch the weather channel and the internet weather and start paying attention to the actual elements.

Second point: What's wrong with riding through thunderstorms? It's only water.

I've always wanted to be a weatherman- it's the only job I know of where you can be wrong most of the time and still be employed.


Second point: What's wrong with riding through thunderstorms? It's only water.

Uh. . . what about lightning?

Originally posted by goose
I've always wanted to be a weatherman- it's the only job I know of where you can be wrong most of the time and still be employed.



Uh. . . what about lightning?

lightning is really only a problem if you're riding through huge open fields.

Originally posted by OneTinSloth
lightning is really only a problem if you're riding through huge open fields.

I dunno if I wanna test that theory or not ;) .

I ride in the rain, but if there's thunder and lightning, then I don't. The only time I mind the rain is when it's cold, yucky rain. Rain in the summer is not so bad... well, unless the wind kicks in for at least over 20 miles per hour or so...

Koffee

Originally posted by goose

Uh. . . what about lightning?

That's just a bonus.

Originally posted by goose
Uh. . . what about lightning?

Contrary to popular belief, your chances of being struck by lightning are extremely remote. I would say one in several million. In truth you're probably in greater danger by driving in those conditions simply due to the differing safety levels of cycling vs driving that are inherent to all conditions. Plus, you haven't lived if you haven't watched a storm roll in across the South Pacific.

BTW, I am one of those people who prefers rain. In fact, after the drought we've had (and still haven't broken yet), I even welcome hail.

Riding in the rain in Queensland is a lot different to doing the same in South Australia, sure it rains harder up there but it never gets as cold. This morning it was a bit windy but I could see patches of blue sky through the clouds. After 3 days of rain and wind I thought this looked like a good day to ride to work. WRONG! After 10km it was getting darker and the rain started. I had no choice but to keep going with still another 28km to go. The rain stopped but the roads were a river of water. Even with full mud guards the water was still drenching my booties and shins. My gloves were soaked, my leggings were wet, my feet were frozen, and my shins were numb. The final 10km descent was freezing. It was 7ºC/44F with a minimum of 5ºC/41F. I was happy to get to work and have a warm shower.
I still enjoyed the ride and am glad I rode, but those are not ideal conditions. This is the third time this winter I have been caught out by bad weather and have had to ride the majority of the ride drenched to the skin in single digit weather.
My wife thinks I am mad. She might have a point.

CHEERS.

Mark

My job is to do weather observations (I predict the present :D ) and I find forecasters to be very acurate. The forecasts you see on TV cover a large area so take them with a grain of salt. Also keep in mind that unstable weather like T-storms are very difficult to predict.

Originally posted by spazegun2213
THATS IT! thats two days in a row that the stupid weather channel have told me that expect t-storms in the afternoon. So I dont take my bike to work. When i finally set foot outside when i get off work and its beautiful!!! thats 2 days of no riding, and if i didnt live where i do, i would be out now! so right now I'm going to take my bike to work every day rain or shine! stupid weather people, i mean really... what do they know.. weather only moderatly predictable. These people get paid to do this! i quit, talk about needing NO talent or training what-so-ever!!!!
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!
makes me mad!

Attention, the rant is not over, management thanks your for listening
I actually had to take the bus today, instead of my bike. I didn't ride yesterday, because of predictions of heavy rain and T-storms. However, yesterday the predictions came out to be 100 % rite. Today the same story all over, but predictions are 100% wrong. I ended up on a bus (I really hate….soo slooooow) because of that. On my way back home, to my amazement the skies cleared, I was so mad! I couldn’t wait till tomorrow and took my bike for an evening ride. Now I can finally go to sleep.:crash:

If it's not raining I get sweaty. If it's raining I get wet. Not much different.

Joe