The Great British Weather

or kill the planet

YOU DECIDE

Lets say a fan runs at 25 watts so that's 0.025kW. If run overnight, say 8 hrs, that would use 0.2kWh of electric. Taking a rate of 15p per kWh (lower on economy 7) that cost be 3p per night. Now a reasonable pair of cycling shoes would set you back, what shall we say, about £60? So that second pair of shoes will pay for themselves in about 5 and a half years, assuming it rains everyday, which currently looks likely.

or kill the planet

YOU DECIDE

Can't help you with that one, I might know the cost of everything but I know the value of nothing.

Point a fan at them overnight. Works a treat.

Or stand them on top of the dehumidifier. For planet huggers, note the dehumidifier consumes about 250W of electricity but, thanks to latent heat of condensation pumps a further 5MJ per day (about 120W while it's running) of heating into my flat. So, 370W cut off my gas bill and dry shoes.

Sure is windy out, just back from ride from Vauxhall to Box Hill and back, bloody slog all the way out but great tailwind all the way back.

Round the corner from house saw this about 40 mins ago on Meadow Rd SW8, the owner of this motor is in for a shock when they get home from work today.

Total of 6 cyclists spotted from Kingston gate to Roehampton Gate in RP this evening.

HTFU, London!!

(to be fair, it was seriously fucking grim)

3 changes of outfitters, yesterday alone during the day.

Own more than one pair of shoes.

Hipster

Sure is windy out, just back from ride from Vauxhall to Box Hill and back, bloody slog all the way out but great tailwind all the way back.

Round the corner from house saw this about 40 mins ago on Meadow Rd SW8, the owner of this motor is in for a shock when they get home from work today.

Lo Rida

3 changes of outfitters.

Been falling out with your tailor again?

£20 Army surplus water proof trouser FTW

Round the corner from house saw this about 40 mins ago on Meadow Rd SW8, the owner of this motor is in for a shock when they get home from work today.

Ouch. It didn't seem that stormy in North-east London, or maybe that was just my usual impeccable meeting timing. Get to first meeting almost dry, sit in meeting, watch torrential rain outside. Leave meeting, only light rain. Get to second meeting almost dry, if slightly wetter than for the first one, sit in meeting, watch torrential rain outside. Leave meeting into warm sunshine. Ha.

insane thunder and hail, wtf?

i was surprised at how warm it was this evening, but a massive wind blowing at the same time

i have multiple pairs of shoes, a dehumidifier and some stuffitts.com shoe driers

the dehumidifier is great

the stuffits are a bit like newspaper, they help dry for a bit, but once they are damp the shoes stop drying out

Sure is windy out, just back from ride from Vauxhall to Box Hill and back, bloody slog all the way out but great tailwind all the way back.

Round the corner from house saw this about 40 mins ago on Meadow Rd SW8, the owner of this motor is in for a shock when they get home from work today.

It's a Saab. Replace the windscreen and it will be fine.

Slippery out there today. The road surfaces in The City are particularly dicey. Like Bambi on Ice,

If you leave the paper in overnight they won't dry, the paper draws out the water until it is saturated, if you don't remove the soggy paper it will actually stop the shoes drying further.

This. I do often forget to remove the paper though.

The heated towel rack is the bomb for this.

or kill the planet
YOU DECIDE

Own 5 pairs of cycling shoes AND kill the planet.

#win

It's a Saab. Leave it for garbage day.

Job done.

I have 6 pairs that fit, and 4 pairs that don't. (I done a dammit)

Buy them online? Or just don't know where you toes end?
3 pairs of mine I can't use because I've moved to Speedplay/midfoot.

No, I did not try to find shoes that fitted by asking m̶any questions online. My feet kept expanding from doing yoga, so my old sidis are just too small.

so I have a couple of pairs of dominators, a pair of crabon sidi genius and some DMR crabon road shoes that i need to get rid of.

If they 47 M let's talk..

my feet went from a 46 to a 47

(i even have one pair of dominators in a 46.5 which fitted perfectly for a while)

perhaps when I become old and wither and shrink I can downsize

The average high temperature for early May is 18 degrees. This Saturday the high is forecast to be 8.