cycle washout lastnight !
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Hi all,
Went for a cycle after work lastnight, saw it had started to rain in London but thought I had missed the worst of it but about 18:00, planned to do 12laps of regents park - about 60k ish.
Lap 1 saw a little drizzle, but by lap 2 the great deluge was in full effect !!
i lasted till lap 9 but was truly beaten by then, drenched through many times over, all energy zapped ... the road was really flooded and i was having to go out to the middle to get round the rivers, visibility was poor, it was getting dark and all-in-all a bit too dangerous with the over-zealous taxi's making impromptu u-turns looking to pick up the stranded sheltering under trees.
enjoyed it though, i was telling myself it's just like another flash storm in Kona .. gotta pull through
Question; when you're bike gets absolutely drenched .. should you dry certain parts off like the chain .. i left it in a dry cycle shed but didn't do anything else. Will inspect it at lunchtime.
Went for a cycle after work lastnight, saw it had started to rain in London but thought I had missed the worst of it but about 18:00, planned to do 12laps of regents park - about 60k ish.
Lap 1 saw a little drizzle, but by lap 2 the great deluge was in full effect !!
i lasted till lap 9 but was truly beaten by then, drenched through many times over, all energy zapped ... the road was really flooded and i was having to go out to the middle to get round the rivers, visibility was poor, it was getting dark and all-in-all a bit too dangerous with the over-zealous taxi's making impromptu u-turns looking to pick up the stranded sheltering under trees.
enjoyed it though, i was telling myself it's just like another flash storm in Kona .. gotta pull through
Question; when you're bike gets absolutely drenched .. should you dry certain parts off like the chain .. i left it in a dry cycle shed but didn't do anything else. Will inspect it at lunchtime.
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within 10mins it was thumping it down and by the time i had changed tubes and reinflated it was properly heaving it down. 10miles home and i was about as wet as i could possibly be when not doing an event. grim.