Is it a kind of madness?

[carpiste]

Having just started cycling after many years absence I have been doing 9 miles every other day.

Today I went out,just got back,and if you know Manchester you`ll know it rains.It rains a lot.
Today it rained like hell........and most of it fell on me!
I was absolutely drowned.



But I loved it!!!






Will this madness go away?

 

[Arch]

No, sorry, you're stuck with it.



Glad to hear we've got another inmate....

 

[lanternerouge]

Good work Carpiste, where are you in MCR? I'm in Stockport

 

[Bayerd]

Having just started cycling after many years absence I have been doing 9 miles every other day.

Today I went out,just got back,and if you know Manchester you`ll know it rains.It rains a lot.
Today it rained like hell........and most of it fell on me!
I was absolutely drowned.



But I loved it!!!






Will this madness go away?

Erm.... No!

'kin great isn't it!

 

[yello]

I always find a perverse pleasure in riding in the rain, yet I don't like setting off for a ride when it's raining!

 

[ianrauk]

Rain or shine, the cycling doesn't stop....

 

[Bayerd]

I always find a perverse pleasure in riding in the rain, yet I don't like setting off for a ride when it's raining!

Yep, know that feeling....

 

[doddman]

I often wonder the same thing. I think it must take a certain kind of masochism to actually feel stronger a rider as the weather worsens!

 

[ELL]

Just wait until it snows. That's a lot of fun

 

[yello]

Just wait until it snows. That's a lot of fun

I rode in snow, and when it was snowing, for the first time only last January. Most bizarre and not at all as I expected. No major handling issues, in fact I was quite surprised at how undue my natural conservatism was. It was a fresh fall though. It'd be a different story if it'd been lying around for a few days, I'm sure.

I did really enjoy it tbh. Not at all what I'm used to.

 

[Davidc]

There's no escape, just learn to live with it.

(You need to hand over your plastic cards, cheque book etc. to a responsible adult as well)

 

[- Baz -]

There's no escape, just learn to live with it.

(You need to hand over your plastic cards, cheque book etc. to a responsible adult as well)

+1. Began commuting six weeks ago prompted mostly to save lots of time and money. The cycling and fitness slant was secondary. Now, if I couldn't get on my bike every day I'd go bananas, and although I save about an hour a day, it's costing me a fortune in kit, tools and various upgrades to the bike. It's almost like being a teenager again, though the cycling/totty interest ratio has reversed!

BTW I commute to Manchester centre from Bardsley (between Oldham and Ashton) - 7 miles each way.

 

[carpiste]

It`s so good to know I`m not alone! So I can now expect to spend loads of dosh, go out in really bad, wet, cold, windy weather, ignore all else(even totty)





Strangley enough I`ve been doing that already for years!




I am of course a fisherman

 

[ELL]

I rode in snow, and when it was snowing, for the first time only last January. Most bizarre and not at all as I expected. No major handling issues, in fact I was quite surprised at how undue my natural conservatism was. It was a fresh fall though. It'd be a different story if it'd been lying around for a few days, I'm sure.

I did really enjoy it tbh. Not at all what I'm used to.

This was me after a ride in the snow in January