Weather - The rain in Spain...

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Falls mainly... On me! Well, at east it did yesterday! :(

Took us over five hours to ride the 300 kilometres from San Sebastian to Ribadesella yesterday and it only stopped raining for the last half hour.

Moral? Just coz its August, don't leave your waterproofs behind when you come to Spain! :rob
 
I did two weeks in North Spain in early June. Drysabone until that very ride west from San Sebastian. Then worse than Manchester in a monsoon. I think it 's always raining in that spot. Manchester that is. Heh heh.
Make the most of the ride. I've been dying to go back ever since we docked back in Portsmouth!
 
I was over in Scotland on Friday picking up a pair of Givi V35's I had bought. On the way back to the ferry, the rain came rolling in with about 15 miles left to ride. I pulled over and decided to try out the Triumph one piece oversuit I bought several years ago at the NEC. It basically had zips running the full length down both sides, so you put your arms in the sleeves, then pulled a centre section between your legs and then zipped it all together before closing miles of velcro flaps. By the time I had got that all done, the bloody rain had practically passed on by and I hardly got wet at all. It was a complete faff. On reaching the ferry terminal at Cairnryan, I un-suited and just then, a guy comes up to me asking where I had got this fantastic suit ? I told him it was the first time I had used it and he could have it for a tenner.

Sold !!! :D
 
Job creation scheme

Glyno said:
Wish we could have a drop down ere. Nowt for over 8 weeks now :eek:
Click to expand...

Perhaps I have the answer to the Spanish economic problems then!

Line up all the unemployed along the Pyrenees and down to you in the south. Give 'em all a bucket and they can pass the rain down to you. Eco friendly as well!

Simples! :clap
 
Weather has been crazy in Europe. I got caught in a motherload of a rainshower in Austria two weeks ago. Heaviest I have ever seen. It was that heavy the traffic ground to a hault in a valley, seriously.
 
Same for our place in Catalunya, no rain for weeks and 30+ most days....its simply dreadful riding conditions on the trails....no mud ...nothing.
Mind you I do have to dust the bike down every now and then.... but I do miss sitting with a tooth brush getting the mud out of the spokes.... keeping fluid levels up is tough too....:jager
 
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