Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Cold, wet, icey, snow, strong east wind and spilt diesel. That is all.
Tales from today's commute....
- Thread starter martint235
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
There was only one other bike in the rack on site this morning, a fixie urban machine - probably only ridden on city streets.
MattHB
Proud Daddy
- Location
- Deepest darkest Dorset
I was all set to go this morning.. and then the college closed. I was looking forward to a snowy ride in!
PJ79LIZARD
Über Member
- Location
- WEST MIDLANDS
Ride home was fun, had to do some pavement hopping as the traffic in places were travelling about five mph. Saw a few cars stuck, don't understand why drivers deviate from the car tracks and then go close to the kerb and then decided thrashing first will help! Time to take the kids sledging now and myself lol
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
Might take my nipper sledging later. Will have to sneak past the wife, as he's only 5 weeks old and she might think that it is a bad idea.
Women, heh!
Women, heh!
400bhp
Guru
Might take my nipper sledging later. Will have to sneak past the wife, as he's only 5 weeks old and she might think that it is a bad idea.
Women, heh!
Brilliant
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Our Rd about 10 minutes ago
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Not fair.
Send it this way!
Send it this way!
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Your welcome to it.
totallyfixed
Veteran
- Location
- The only county without a McDonalds
Our road was like that before the snow started again about 1 hour ago, this is rapidly becoming skiing not cycling country round here!
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This morning it was business as usual, my road, the next road and Caldwell road at the end were snowy and slippery but every where else was clear. the ride home though that was a bit of a challenge, I had a lurid front end slide at the junction of Caldwell road and Morris Drive, I managed to catch it and stay onboard, more by luck than judgement, It had been snowing all morning and the roads were covered in a mixture of slush, snow and compacted polished snow, the bike was moving round underneath me a lot, pulling away from lights and climbing was tending to spin the back wheel up a lot and it took me about 45 minutes to travel a distance that normally takes 25 minutes, it was fun but I was glad to see my front door.
Not so pleasant now as the nice crisp clean snow is icy slush, a couple of times the slush tried to make me change direction but the tyres dug in and kept me going where I wanted to go.
I work colleague MTB's into work this morning on slicks, said it was a nightmare, going to be much worse on the commute home, would not want to be on anything other than big fat knobblies with studs.
I work colleague MTB's into work this morning on slicks, said it was a nightmare, going to be much worse on the commute home, would not want to be on anything other than big fat knobblies with studs.
stephenb
Guru
all wet slushy stuff so far here in central London, probably mad but will head home (12 miles) on bike in a bit. Hope the journey's better than last night, a cabbie passed close enough to be able to nick the cycle computer if he'd wanted then I got undertaken in the Embankment cycle "lane" by a loony on a moped 
