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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby Wakatuki » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:50 pm

Comedian wrote:
Wakatuki wrote:In regard to the rain from 8/9/10th June................

That's Enough!

Did get a good MTB ride in though, once wet, stay wet... :D
Tuesday 11th shoes still not drying at all. The GLW not very impressed with the grit in the washing, or was it the forgotten banana skin. :cry:
If you don't get those shoes dry soon they are going to take on a very very special aroma. :mrgreen:
Any suggestions on how to dry them? The hairdryer is my current idea...

p.s. Happy Birthday Luke

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Postby singlespeedscott » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:27 pm

Stuff them with screwed up newspaper and change it ever few hours. Capillary action will do the rest.
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Postby Big_Red » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:30 pm

Lukeyboy wrote:It was at 10.30

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Yep, that was me upon waking and looking outside this morning. Caught the train to work with all the rest of the great unwashed. Meh.

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Postby singlespeedscott » Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:24 pm

0445 commute to work was wet and miserable but the ride home is looking like it will be a dry one.Yippee.
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Postby GeoffInBrisbane » Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:33 pm

After my enforced time off the bike lately, there was no way I wasn't riding today. Showed up for the regular group ride (riverloop) this morning, numbers were poor. Myself, AmyInBrisbane, and three others. Was quite a pleasant ride actually - the roads were wet but not streaming, didn't get wet feet. No rain. Followed that up with a cruise in to work.

Went out a bit harder on the return commute this arvo - got swift confirmation of how much fitness I've lost. :( Ticked over 5000km for the year today, a month later than I should've. :evil:

Just got home...it started to rain 5 minutes after I got in. :D

Day off tomorrow (sposed to rain and be horrible anyway), acupuncture and massage to try and improve the remaining issues, then ride Thursday, nothing Friday, then morning ride in Stanthorpe on Saturday. That's the plan anyway. Reckon the weather will cooperate?

Oh, and another Happy Birthday to Luke.
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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby jasonc » Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:16 pm

oh. happy birthday luke :D

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Postby marinmomma » Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:15 pm

Happy birthday Luke

I rode over 275 k's on the weekend....Sat was fine, Sun wet roads and light drizzle up at top of Mt Mee only, yesterday was wet nearly the whole of the 90k ride :shock: crazy but still fun!
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Postby jasonc » Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:26 pm

marinmomma wrote:I rode over 275 k's on the weekend....Sat was fine, Sun wet roads and light drizzle up at top of Mt Mee only, yesterday was wet nearly the whole of the 90k ride :shock: crazy but still fun!
too crazy for me. but that's what you've got to do to catch up I suppose....

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Postby munga » Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:36 am

officialy going crazy with this rain.
"paint exteriors in the winter", they said.
"it's the dry season" they said.

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Postby Wakatuki » Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:16 am

The more this week continues the more I think wiki needs an update...
However, most of the Queensland populace experience two weather seasons: a "winter" period of rather warm temperatures and minimal rainfall and a sultry summer period of hot, sticky temperatures and higher levels of rainfall.

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Postby Lukeyboy » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:13 pm

Cheers fellas and gal :P

If the shoes are carbon fibre soles keep the hairdryer away from them :P But what singlespeedscott said with scrunched up newspaper really does the job.

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Postby Crawf » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:34 pm

Wakatuki wrote:
Any suggestions on how to dry them? The hairdryer is my current idea...

p.s. Happy Birthday Luke
Oven. Yes I'm serious, if you can get it down to 70ish deg. If you go too high the plastics may weaken.
As an example my Bont's are heat moldable and need to be placed in 100deg oven to be molded, so they are generally safe to 'çook' in the low range.

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Postby Wakatuki » Wed Jun 12, 2013 3:46 pm

Thanks for the info, they have now been relocated to the vicinity of the tumble dryer, which is really earning its keep at the moment.
It worked for her trainers that got soaked.
The wife refused the newspaper idea as I might get print on my socks! She must be obeyed!

So anyway, I will have a look at the oven idea, I have done it with trainers on Fraser island, never gave it a thought this time.

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Postby Lukeyboy » Wed Jun 12, 2013 3:48 pm

Wakatuki wrote:The wife refused the newspaper idea as I might get print on my socks! She must be obeyed!
How much printer paper you got left? :P :P :P :lol:

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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby ldrcycles » Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:02 pm

munga wrote:officialy going crazy with this rain.
BIG +1, if it wasn't for getting a ride in yesterday i'd be doing my best impression of Jack Nicholson in 'the shining' by now.

Was a beautiful day yesterday, had some wet roads but no rain and got a great ride in. But after only that one solitary day, it's back to grey drizzle again :evil: .
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Postby ldrcycles » Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:27 pm

A little snapshot of the weather, queensland, beautiful one day perfect the next, I think not.

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Postby Lukeyboy » Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:01 pm

It was sunny with blue skies and dry roads this arvo when I finished work. Got home and it starts bucketing down.... :(

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Postby dclnmurray » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:54 am

I am almost wanting the cold weather in the mornings just to get some fine sunny rainless days. I know the showery days keeps the temp up but this is ridiculous. The commute mornings next week will be a shock to the system :o , down to 8's and 9's.

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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby elantra » Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:03 am

Lukeyboy wrote:It was sunny with blue skies and dry roads this arvo when I finished work. Got home and it starts bucketing down.... :(
Could scarcely believe it this morning woke up to find an absence of vertical precipitation.
Roads still rather damp.
Freaky warm temperatures - what happened to winter :shock:

Anyhow just to prove it was possible to get out this morning...
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Postby jasonc » Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:29 am

elantra wrote:Anyhow just to prove it was possible to get out this morning...
what do you mean? I got out yesterday:

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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby marinmomma » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:46 pm

elantra wrote: Freaky warm temperatures - what happened to winter :shock:
Back to normal temps during the weekend...dig out the warmers.
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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby elantra » Fri Jun 14, 2013 8:36 am

jasonc wrote:
elantra wrote:Anyhow just to prove it was possible to get out this morning...
what do you mean? I got out yesterday:

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Excuses time.

Jason, my steel-frame bike does not like the rain, supposedly because of rust issues.
However, it is more than happy to be left out in the sun, unlike some of those CF jobbies.

BTW, your Coottha piccy is bigger than mine.

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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby jasonc » Fri Jun 14, 2013 8:52 am

elantra wrote:BTW, your Coottha piccy is bigger than mine.
my monitor is probably bigger than yours too - i did reduce it to 800 pixels wide when I uploaded it

am happy to have 2 bikes - my commuter flat bar that gets ridden in all weather
and the roadie that gets ridden on longer rides/when the weather is nice
like this morning. about damn time!

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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby DTdotcom » Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:39 pm

The wind was brutal this morning, or have I just lost any form I thought I had?

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Re: Qld weather venting posts

Postby fonts » Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:52 pm

Yeh it was

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