Riding In Them T-Storms.
02-05-08, 04:56 PM
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Nay. I'd rather ride the trainer, plus your chances of getting hit by a car are much higher. And there's always lightning.
02-05-08, 04:56 PM
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I've done it before, but I wouldn't suggest doing it on a metal bike. I don't mind riding in the rain, but once I see lightning close enough to me, I hightail it home.
02-05-08, 05:00 PM
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Best time to ride during the summer around here. Gotta love a 20+ degree temperature drop.
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02-05-08, 05:17 PM
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I'd rather not, gusting winds and poor visibility are not that fun to ride in.
then again, HTFU
then again, HTFU
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02-05-08, 05:27 PM
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if only we had thunderstorms out here in the PNW... i would.
that's actually one of the only things i miss about living down south: thunder & lightning! we get it about twice a year, at most.
that's actually one of the only things i miss about living down south: thunder & lightning! we get it about twice a year, at most.
02-05-08, 05:42 PM
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02-05-08, 06:26 PM
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Seriously. Moving from Kansas to the Bay Area was quite the shock. Anyway -- If I was caught in one, I wouldn't worry about it. I doubt I'd roll out with gusty winds and lightening. Or maybe I would.
02-05-08, 07:21 PM
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at least if you did ride in them.. you'd have a helmet on when the hail starts....
02-05-08, 07:41 PM
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Bike or no bike, getting caught in electrical activity is a no no... if you hear thunder, start thinking about finding cover. If you start to see lightening, definitely get out of open areas, or find a ditch or a car or a building (definitely no standing under trees, that doesn't count as a building).
02-05-08, 09:18 PM
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Hells no. Ride in snow storms? yes!
02-05-08, 09:47 PM
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I started the Escape NY century a few years ago when the remnants of hurricane Ivan were forecast to come through. Before I even made it to the George Washington bridge, the lightning started, the rain came down in buckets, and I found cover after riding about a mile. While I was waiting one bolt of lightning struck ground right at the starting point of the ride.
I was so soaked that the water squished out of my padded shorts when I sat down on the subway going home. That was completely gross, and I wonder what the guy sitting next to me thought, maybe that I'm nuts.
I don't ride in thunderstorms, I don't ride in drizzle, I don't ride if it even looks like rain anymore. Besides, my carbon bike would melt if it got wet.
I was so soaked that the water squished out of my padded shorts when I sat down on the subway going home. That was completely gross, and I wonder what the guy sitting next to me thought, maybe that I'm nuts.
I don't ride in thunderstorms, I don't ride in drizzle, I don't ride if it even looks like rain anymore. Besides, my carbon bike would melt if it got wet.
02-05-08, 09:53 PM
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02-05-08, 10:11 PM
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I started the Escape NY century a few years ago when the remnants of hurricane Ivan were forecast to come through. Before I even made it to the George Washington bridge, the lightning started, the rain came down in buckets, and I found cover after riding about a mile. While I was waiting one bolt of lightning struck ground right at the starting point of the ride.
I was so soaked that the water squished out of my padded shorts when I sat down on the subway going home. That was completely gross, and I wonder what the guy sitting next to me thought, maybe that I'm nuts.
I don't ride in thunderstorms, I don't ride in drizzle, I don't ride if it even looks like rain anymore. Besides, my carbon bike would melt if it got wet.
I was so soaked that the water squished out of my padded shorts when I sat down on the subway going home. That was completely gross, and I wonder what the guy sitting next to me thought, maybe that I'm nuts.
I don't ride in thunderstorms, I don't ride in drizzle, I don't ride if it even looks like rain anymore. Besides, my carbon bike would melt if it got wet.
02-06-08, 12:48 AM
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Don't mince words
I rode my first century (Solvang '06) in rain, t-storms, hail, snow down to 1000'. When we started the ride it was dry, although that was merely a break between storms. When the t-storm and hail hit my friend was patching a flat, rolling the tube in the gutter as the lightning flashed above us, oblivious to our demands that he cease and desist so we can run to shelter until the storm passed. He's definitely HTFU; he repaired the tube in the storm and onward through the hail we rode.
Now that I've ridden through that and survived, I'll be on the trainer before I go out in that nonsense again, voluntarily. If I paid for a ride I may do it, depending. I think it's dangerous and unnecessarily risky to ride in t-storms.
Now that I've ridden through that and survived, I'll be on the trainer before I go out in that nonsense again, voluntarily. If I paid for a ride I may do it, depending. I think it's dangerous and unnecessarily risky to ride in t-storms.
02-06-08, 01:14 AM
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Almost did this on a 50+ ride last month. No thunder, but plenty of rain and we hit a couple of hail showers. Nothing serious, just barley sized hail. California never gets that golf ball (or tennis ball) sized stuff you see in the midwest. Still stung when it hit your face. Never thought I'd be riding in rain. But I quit caring after the first good soaking.