BAD YEAR FOR BIKING ?

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davebms · #1 Post by **davebms** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:14 pm

hello all is it just me or has 2012 been crap ?
did a rally in April DAMP all enjoyable but
went to lemons very damp
did a few commutes most damp
last w/end another rally,, Friday damp, (good bands and beer)
saturday GOOD !! but then, apparently the lake nearby had to much water in it so they let it out !! the bar shut when the water got to 4 feet deep
by about 1am there were 4by4s towing trikes stuck in the new lake (no bands due to the electrics blowing up) poss i should not have sat drinking
beer as the flood came in

BikerGran · #2 Post by **BikerGran** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:38 pm

You've just been to the wrong rallies!

HisNibbs · #3 Post by **HisNibbs** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:17 pm

Marches meet had some sunshine this year. The not a Wake meet was actually hot. An' at the festival of 1000 bikes despite all odds, we litteraly skipped between raindrops to have a predominatly dry occassion.

Not a bad year despite a fk'd gear box on the BM and an annoying short circuit on the Falco. We've survived and look forward to the dry clean, empty tarmac dreams are made of.

flatlander · #4 Post by **flatlander** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:24 pm

Fell off got knocked off dropped bike got soaked got freezing cold, got freezing cold and wet commuted most every day got chopped up got cut up got points got speeding awareness course got motorway awareness course ridden like a dickhead ridden like a nut job ridden like a tit

It's been a fekkin great year

I've loved it

Won't even go through the shit that riding my bike has kept me sane from no worse than most of us but the bike has kept me going as my favourite Ogri cartoon says "Stuff everything I've still got my bike "

Gio · #5 Post by **Gio** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:40 am

It's been bad, I haven't ridden as much as i wanted

MartDude · #6 Post by **MartDude** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:57 am

Looks as if we might have to get used to it

"A repeat of this year's washout summer is the last thing most people want from the English weather – but more of the same could be on the way, and could become the norm"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... out-summer

"So what about the next few summers? Professor Sutton says there is no sign of the Atlantic Ocean cooling for the moment so the current pattern is likely to continue"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19848112

Preceded by a very chilly winter

"The record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer may mean a cold winter for the UK and northern Europe. . . . . . 'We can't make predictions yet … [but] I wouldn't be surprised to see wild extremes this winter' "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... intcmp=239

Just thought I'd cheer everyone up a bit . . .

BikerGran · #7 Post by **BikerGran** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:51 pm

Bugger off!

I'm not listening, nah nah na nah nah I'm not listening!

flatlander · #8 Post by **flatlander** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:46 pm

'We can't make predictions yet

well yes you can actually thats kind of the point of predictions isnt it that you make them before and that they might be wrong...

anyway who let Fraser in the building

Gio · #9 Post by **Gio** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:38 am

Hmmm the gruniad and bbc, must be wrong they normally are.

MartDude · #10 Post by **MartDude** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:54 am

More good news (not)

"Sarah Jackson from the Met Office . . . said that this year's conditions were partly caused by a move to a negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation which would be likely to lead to more frequent cold, drier winters - like the 1960s - and also wetter summers for 10-20 years."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19995084

paddyz1 · #11 Post by **paddyz1** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:32 am

They can't even get it correct for the day ahead.....Seen 3 different reports for one day and they were all different....I will just take each day as it comes....
today i am going to wash the skip and the VW