{"id":344,"date":"2009-08-18T04:32:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-08-18T04:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T04:32:34","slug":"i-dont-mind-the-rain-im-welsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/i-dont-mind-the-rain-im-welsh\/","title":{"rendered":"I don’t mind the rain… I’m Welsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking my lead from Mr Dalton<\/a>, this weekend saw us planning a ride up to Yea<\/a> and back via a whole collection of roads that you really shouldn’t take a gixxer on – but Mr Dalton, being Mr Dalton – a farm boy from New Zealand type – ignored such advice as ‘you haven’t got the ground clearance’ to declare ‘I’m inclined to ride unless utterly shite, are we not men?’.<\/p>\n

\"BOMHe was of course referring to the slightly dodgy weather forecast for the day. ‘Cloudy start with chances of isolated showers in the afternoon’. So I replied ‘Quite, I’m inclined to ride come what may… grew up in Wales – meet yours?’. You could argue this was tempting fate – but a quick check of BOM* radar that morning suggested a small windy front clearing for a good ride later in the morning.<\/p>\n

We headed off and hit the Hume Freeway on time to meet up with Jamie… it was then Nigel realised we needed the Hume HIGHWAY<\/em>, one junction back along the M80. ‘Shall we just go back?’ I meekly suggested…. ‘No! We’ll meet him down the road – call him’. Or something along those lines – suffice to say we missed Jamie and finally caught up with him a few miles up the road at the Craigieburn Servo (service station for my UK readers).<\/p>\n

\"BOMThis was actually a fortuitous turn of events – the weather front was massing and again checking the radar we saw it was just a band of rain and we’d sit it out. An hour later I decided to check the radar from another source – and was rather amazed to discover the difference in radar images from two different iPhone apps… it appears that a radar station was down – and whilst my app (Oz Weather<\/a>) reported this, Nigel’s didn’t (BOMradar<\/a>) – but continued to show a small amount of rain. When the radar station came back online I saw what the weather was really doing – to which Nigel quietly stated, ‘sod this for a game of soldiers’ and fled the scene.<\/p>\n

So our 288km ride turned into 50km north of Melbourne and back again in the pouring rain. Ah well – can’t have it all.<\/p>\n

*BOM – AAustralia Bureau of Meteorology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It did however result in a nice collection of photographs of a typical Australian Service Station<\/a> – sorry Servo – in the rain.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the moment, caught on camera that the whole thing ‘just went wrong<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

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