Dzinck

long story short.... get done with nine tenths of a quick 28 mile club ride and the rain starts to fall... as we are riding along trying to get home before it really starts to fall we notice that these rain drops are kinda big and arent the softest, well befor you know it we are getting nailed with hail the size of marbles... /chuckle.... and man oh man do small pieces of ice hurt like a motha when your haulen arse to get home. So anyhow we wait it out for about 10 minutes under the nearest shelter we could find and by the time it was back to rain it looked like about an inch and a half of hail on the road... almost like a blanket of snow... well all in all it was kinda awsome because we were right under the lightening and thunder so it was a hell of a show

Thats my latest nasty weather story... you folks got any?

55/Rad

3 weeks ago on a club ride, I got isolated with an old guy and it started to rain very hard. We were about 7 miles into a 36 miler and very close to my home, so I invited this kindly old gent in for a cup of coffee. After about 45 minutes, we set out again on the hardest hill section of the ride. I remember thinking "man, now I'm stuck with this guy"...

Long story longer - he kicked my arse. Guy was about 70. Don't underestimate anybody.

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MacMan

Last Sunday. The entire bike group turned back except for three of us. We carried on straight into a 50 mph+ headwind coming out of the South. We passed a farm and actually saw one of the barn doors being ripped off. Then turned West and rode at a severe lean for 5 miles or so. Then turned North and really had some fun

jfmckenna

That sounds aweful! It's been thundering here on a regular basis for that last two weeks starting at around 5 oclcok. Ive seen the hail in some of these storms and thought jeese I'm glad I'm not out there...

Kid-Cycle

Its currently 82 deg F with 35% humidity due to slight overcast ..... does this count as a nasty weather story? Actually we hardly ever have thunderstorms and hail in Nor-Cal. I sorta wish we did...

55/Rad

Yea, but you got those roadside prisoners hootin' at ya as you go by

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Kid-Cycle

I guess you have heard of our town's name sake..... Folsom Prison. I think Johny Cash put us on the map.

Joat

I live in Buffalo and this entire thread is confusing me.
Just exactly what is "good" weather?

Here, we roll our windows down when it gets over 40F in the spring.
We start grilling once it hits 50, and if you don't like biking in the rain, don't buy a bike.

Magna Man

In Moskva, you ride bike when ever not snowing.