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Title: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: Grahamm on 11 August 2012, 08:30:36 pm
On Friday the 3rd I went down to North Devon for my annual surfing and biking holiday and because of the conditions I wore the wet weather textile gear.

So yesterday (having had to come home even though the weather was improving) I damn near got heat-stroke on the return journey because I couldn't get enough cooling! :(

You just can't win sometimes...

Title: Re: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: Raymy on 12 August 2012, 09:00:08 pm
20 quid for a mac in a sac and nylon troosers. Fit under the seat. jackpot
Title: Re: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: Grahamm on 12 August 2012, 10:40:45 pm
Fit under the seat. jackpot

Fit under the seat of an FZ6, next to the pipes... melted...!!  :eek

Seriously, had I known the weather would warm up that much I'd have gone with the Air Jacket and over-jacket, but the forecast simply didn't suggest a mini-heatwave.
Title: Re: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: AdieR on 13 August 2012, 12:20:42 am
Doing bloody well to get anything under the seat of an FZ6 - there ain't a right lot of space there.....

As for weather, I had the same in May going up to Scotland - bright sunshine as far as Edinburgh, then rain up to a bit past Perth, and snow for a long way between Perth - Inverness, before turning to rain again.
I hadn't planned for it either, and it wasn't mentioned on the weather forecast either.
Title: Re: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: Grahamm on 13 August 2012, 10:21:43 am
Doing bloody well to get anything under the seat of an FZ6 - there ain't a right lot of space there.....

True, between the toolkit and the alarm that's under there, there's virtually bugger all room to fit anything else.
Title: Re: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: Rikki on 13 August 2012, 09:17:00 pm
Can't help wondering where you'd put the surfboard, let alone the waterproofs!
Title: Re: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: Grahamm on 14 August 2012, 12:16:19 am
Can't help wondering where you'd put the surfboard

If I had a quid for every time someone asked me that it would have covered the hire cost several times over!!!

(Although I did see someone coming back from the beach on a scooter, still wearing their wetsuit and sitting on their short board on top of the seat...!  :eek )

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let alone the waterproofs!

I've just bought a decent set of waterproof over-trousers from Hein Gericke for £22.50 in their closing down sale and manged to fit them in the Kriega R3 bum bag which I keep the over-jacket for the air jacket in, so next time I should be ok :)
Title: Re: Bloody British weather...!
Post by: Slaninar on 17 August 2012, 03:12:15 pm
Doing bloody well to get anything under the seat of an FZ6 - there ain't a right lot of space there.....

True, between the toolkit and the alarm that's under there, there's virtually bugger all room to fit anything else.

Get a real, propper bikle. Like a FZS. You know, the one with the falus sybol clearly visible on the right side!