Hip Priest
Veteran
When there is a strong likelihood of ice I go on the turbo. By my own personal risk assessment, it just isn't worth it.
Black Ice
- Thread starter BrynCP
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cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Last winter ( i think ) i was on the way to work and i had turned left at a junction that goes uphill and saw a big patch of sheet ice but the car following me decided to overtake and i had no choice but to try to carry on .
Cue wheel spin and slow speed topple !
Cue wheel spin and slow speed topple !
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
I would but the turbo doesnt get me to work , swmbo has car for the kids and theres no public transport .
Hip Priest
Veteran
I was referring to leisure and training rides, rather than commutes. But I take your point. I commute in all weathers too.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
my training in such weather !
Next year i promise to get back into it, thus last year has been a non starter for training what with kids being the age they are .Last few weeks they are starting to be a bit more independent and dont need you to play /supervise them 24/7.
Scotchlovingcylist
Formerly known as Speedfreak
For those local guys a lot of the backstreets in Beverley have been iffy last couple of days, forecast is a little milder this week though
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
For most of the past week I've been on the MTB, except for Friday when I took the road bike.
After one fall 10 days ago I wasn't going to chance it.
After one fall 10 days ago I wasn't going to chance it.
Today seemed better. I rode up through Swine to Routh, Tickton and Beverley and saw no ice whatsoever. I dared not go back to Walkington though!
Picked up a minute piece of glass in Beverley that just pushed through the puncture protection, Beverley also seems to be incredibly busy traffic wise at this time of the year, almost impossible to navigate and some car pulling out the Fire station almost knocked me off yesterday before my other accident.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
beginning to freeze again ....
Our patio is already a sheet of ice.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
When it gets close to freezing I cycle down to the Cheshire lanes rather than the usual mountains. Up on the tops its a lot colder, I go a lot faster downhill and there are plenty of streams that just run across the road. A fairly lethal combination
Having said that my only black ice off was near Alderley Edge in Cheshire. One second pootling along, next second I'm lying on my side in the road, still clipped in, still holding the handlebars with a surprised look on my face
Having said that my only black ice off was near Alderley Edge in Cheshire. One second pootling along, next second I'm lying on my side in the road, still clipped in, still holding the handlebars with a surprised look on my face
Scotchlovingcylist
Formerly known as Speedfreak
Have noticed this too, manor road and norwood just absolutely rammed. Saturdays are always bad with the market but its everyday at the minute
Browser
Guru
- Location
- Crowland, Lincolnshire, UK.
The one time I cycled to work in black ice was a day a couple or three winters back where there were widespread reports of black ice all over the country. I had one wobble at a T-junction near my house which I put down to an incautious angle on lean on a frosty morning, sat the bike up and widened the corner as much as possible (no traffic about thank god). I actually stopped on the way to work as the rear of the bike felt squirelly and I thought I had a slow puncture. Turned out my two shift mates, fellow cycle commuters, had given up and driven as one of them fell off twice within 400 yards of one of them's house and that the roads were liberally covered with black ice 
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Parts of the Coast to Coast path between Washington, Tyne and Wear, and Consett in County Durham have been asphalted.
Great, the previous surface was a mess.
But the asphalt is ideal black ice territory, and being a cycle path there isn't much room either side if you do fall.
I'm sure users are grateful for any investment in the path, but relaying it as cinder track might have been better.
Great, the previous surface was a mess.
But the asphalt is ideal black ice territory, and being a cycle path there isn't much room either side if you do fall.
I'm sure users are grateful for any investment in the path, but relaying it as cinder track might have been better.