I'm not getting as much cycling these days as I'd like, and have to really make the time to get out.
So this afternoon I managed to set off on my fixer, just as it was getting dark and the rain was starting. No plan in mind, just go out for an hour or so. The rain started coming down harder after the first few kilometres. It was then I realised I'd forgotten to put my neoprene overshoes on. Bum. Never mind, a slight tail wind made the riding easy. Zip up past Gatwick on the A23 and then peeled off onto some lanes. Raining even harder, [censored] motorists who don't dip their lights, it _still_ felt good. Feet by now were absolutely soaking and my waterproof turned out not to be. By now I'm back in town and had a close call at a roundabout as a dozy motorist didn't see me. Then I go round a corner and something feels wrong - at first I thought the back end had stepped out so I carried on. Then I realised the front tyre was flat. Bum. Only 1k from home so I walked it rather than fix it.
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Strange how sometimes a ride is fantastic when any sane person would consider you mad to be out.
I love cycling in heavy rain -- don't know why but its always so
relaxing!!
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Ditto on the rain thing - just recently noticed that i actually prefer to ride in the rain.
Weird I am!
Wonder if it's got anything to do with all the negative ions released from running water that excite the cilia in your throat, clearing all the gunk out alowing more oxygen in ?.... (could be a load of old dogsdoos, memory ain't what it was when I originally heard that 'nearly-fact'😉 Cheers, Dave. - don't mind the rain, it's just the metal corroding salt they put in it over the last couple of weeks!! -
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:49:59 -0000, Lee wrote: ) Ditto on the rain thing - just recently noticed that i actually prefer to ) ride in the rain.
Riding into work in the rain yesterday was absolutely bloody awful. After overtightening my cones a few weeks ago I was certain I must've scoured a new rim on my back wheel, and that was slowing me down as much as the rain. I was dreading the evening.
Riding home in similar drizzle, however, was a pleasure. Either I was aided by having the wind behind me, or I was just so glad that the stressful day I'd predicted was finally over....
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