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So Who Rode in Today?

Rode my relatively new Berkeley - Sunnyvale and back commute yesterday. I got caught in the rain in Berkeley as I left, but most of the rest of the ride was dry if a bit cold in the low 40s.

The ride home was pretty wild. It was cold and a little wet most of the way, but the sky really opened up around the Coliseum, the wind kicked up, and then it hailed for several stretches of the ride, particularly during the 80 merge heading North over the Bay Bridge approach. At first I couldn't figure why the rain was coming in under my helmet, but then I realized it was hail bouncing off my chest and neck and up into my helmet. Fortunately the hail was bb size; can't imagine what it would be like to ride in a storm with golf-ball size hail.

The whole thing wasn't scary, but it was interesting and surprising.
 
seralat said:
can't imagine what it would be like to ride in a storm with golf-ball size hail.
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You could die. And hail is a precursor to lightning, which can kill you as well when you're on a bike.

I saw one big flash of lightning yesterday. Wasn't close.
 
davidji said:
You could die. And hail is a precursor to lightning, which can kill you as well when you're on a bike.

I saw one big flash of lightning yesterday. Wasn't close.
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If it was my time to die by getting struck by lightning while riding my motorcycle... Bring it.
 
Ride every day rain or shine. Marin to Emeryville and back. Richmond bridge is all kind of fun on days like these. Beautiful heavy rain in the morning with high wind and shit storm on the bridge. Gaps in the upper deck of the bridge lead to areas of pure shit falling from above. Cagers driving at idiotic speeds for the conditions pass on the left and coat me with a shower of water. Dianese goretex jacket and pants hold up well. Held goretex gloves get a little leaky at the fingertip seams on days like this.

When are the Pineapple clippers going to start?
 
Lawnerd said:
Richmond bridge is all kind of fun on days like these. Beautiful heavy rain in the morning with high wind and shit storm on the bridge.
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For a while, I occasionally commuted Berkeley <--> San Rafael, and totally agree the Richmond Bridge can be batshit crazy riding on stormy days. I'm sure I've said it before in other threads, but in a heavy rain storm on a windy day, there's a short stretch on the lower deck around about 1 mile from the end of the bridge that is consistently one of the scariest stretches of road I've ever had the displeasure to ride.
 
Ha ha

I’m not hard core anymore. I like being comfortable and not wet and miserable. If I want to get dirty, I go ride dirt
 
Todays rain would be epic.

50 years ago, :afm199 there were at least ten guys would show up @ Gates Canyon Rd. for the day.

All for the sloppiest mud available.

None of that sticky stuff, pure out of control, slidy & slick will do.

and here I sit without a :ride adorned with knobbies, , ,

:wtf
 
So who rode in today?

(Not me, I chickened out and took the air conditioned car)

117F in the East Bay
 
Nope, but I was passing through Livermore around the time they hit their high yesterday on my way back from Bridgeport, that was spicy.
 
discoganya said:
So who rode in today?

(Not me, I chickened out and took the air conditioned car)

117F in the East Bay
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Been riding daily in the DC Area out here on the East coast, hitting 100-104 with humidity in the 50-60% range and it’s miserable fully geared up. Can lane split in DC but not in VA so stop and go traffic is the worst.
 
I'm too old to deal with the heat be back in the 90's on Saturday I can take a break till then :)
 
Saw 116 on my way to work this afternoon. Hot but only a 40 minute ride. :ride
 
Drove in yesterday and today...
It showed 121° on my dash thermo at 3pm yesterday.

Though this morning commute temperature was so nice, .... shoulda rode.
 
1 cup of water on tshirt and balaclava, vents in the aerostich open with collar down; It was very pleasant for my commute home to Tracy form Livermore yesterday. lack of traffic yesterday afternoon helped too.

Commute to Livermore this morning @ 80F was less comfortable actually (no wet tshirt)
 
Been riding all week. Yesterday was pretty brutal, felt like I was in an oven on Hwy 4 on the way home.
 
I ride every day, 100 miles commute. SJ was 112 and hate getting bunched in traffic. I hate more peeling the shit off after...

But I love most of all squirting by everything else. AC not required. :ride
 
I ride everyday - 60miles of commuting … textiles were nicely vented, the hardest part is getting the gear off :laughing
 
RickM said:
1 cup of water on tshirt and balaclava, vents in the aerostich open with collar down; It was very pleasant for my commute home to Tracy form Livermore yesterday. lack of traffic yesterday afternoon helped too.

Commute to Livermore this morning @ 80F was less comfortable actually (no wet tshirt)
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Wet cooling scarf works wonders too. Highly recommend.
 
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