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Pale Rider
Dec 6, 2012 - 3:01PM
195.59.119.225
QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

It's looking decided dodgy tonight. Patchy rain by 6 pm, heavy rain by 8 pm. And cold and windy.

Assuming this weather turns up, I won't. Anybody else not coming out tonight?

PT

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Pat AKA the Jolly Green Giant
Dec 6, 2012 - 3:38PM
217.156.211.193
Re: QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

if i get my new gear cable fitted i'm going out, if not then not...see you at the start

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Tony
Dec 6, 2012 - 3:43PM
194.129.130.242
Re: QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

Too much rain forecast and too much work to do means not coming out.

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Dec 6th, 2012 - 3:43 PM
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Chris
Dec 6, 2012 - 3:54PM
86.188.231.242
Re: QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

not sure fitting a gear cable is a valid excuse for not comming out, the weather is though and thats the one i'm using!

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Dec 6th, 2012 - 3:54 PM
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Nick
Dec 6, 2012 - 4:55PM
81.111.91.204
Re: QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

It's also the excuse I'm using so I won't be coming over tonight,I've obviously picked the wrong time of year to join up on the rides.Hopefully I'll be over next week if it's not raining,snowing,icey,windy,etc..

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Dec 6th, 2012 - 4:55 PM
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Pete T
Dec 6, 2012 - 5:25PM
81.154.144.60
Re: QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

I'm playing the weather card tonight. Actually still getting over slight cold I picked up after last Thursday's 39 miles in sub zero ambient (well that's what it felt like. Good luck to all that venture out

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Big Bad Dom
Dec 6, 2012 - 5:32PM
81.97.71.33
Re: QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

I'm planning on not coming out, and it's a plan I firmly intend to implement successfully.

The woodburning stove is nicely fired up and the mud has no attraction at all.

See you next week when the sun's out, it's 25C and you can just about pick out the trail through the dust gently rising against the sunset...

Dom

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Dec 6th, 2012 - 5:32 PM
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Pat
Dec 6, 2012 - 5:39PM
109.148.178.64
Re: QH Newton: Out if dry, not if wet

On the grounds that I broke the gear cable on my commuter bike on the way in to work today as well as my MTB gear cable last Friday (I have witnesses).
Well I've fixed the MTB but the commuter is shredded. Got to sort that before work tomorrow.

Not comming out now as the rain looks a bit bad too.

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