Your ride today.... (part 1)

[simoncc]

Bempton to Scarborough and back. About 35 miles. When you stay in East Yorkshire for a few days Scarborough does seem like a huge city when you cycle into it. So does Bridlington for that matter.

 

[gavintc]

Went on the club run this morning. It hurt. Especially the west wind heading back into Edinburgh. So, 50 miles done, 30 miles yesterday - not too bad. Tomorrow is a turbo day.

 

[marinyork]

Another sub zero ride . Apart from a moton in a car doing a dukes of hazard type RLJ and nearly giving new year gift of a hospital trip to a family in another car and a brisk headwind, a pleasant ride.

 

[djb1971]

Did 2 hours last night on 'The Tank' , lots of sheet ice on the roads which made for some amusing acrobatics, Managed to keep upright but the wind chill has given me a sore nose. The wife says it's because it sticks out too far ( my nose that is )

Just about to go out this morning and it's got a bl00dy p******e * !!! Can't be bothered to fix it yet so I'll go a bit later It's -5 here this morning and the wind is FREEZING

* that's a schwalbe marathon plus with an added puncture lining in the tyre!! looking forward to seeing what went through, the hawthorns had recently been cut!!

 

[bonk man]

Club ride today, it was below -5 when I left. 8 riders including a new lad who had only done about 30 miles before..

We did about 60 round the lanes of Worcestershire [ amazingly almost ice free, but then it doesn't rain any more ] .

I decided to ride the rubbish dump Holdsworth instead of the council skip Moulton as there was more of a chance staying upright on the former

Tea stop was at the wonderful Revills at Defford, it was a toasty 3 degrees in the cafe.

We had to cross the A38 a few times which was very busy due to a tanker going over on the M5 [ no injuries, though we saw it and it looked unpleasant ] but the lanes were ok, a few 4x4s about.. they'll probably get stuck when the snow comes next week

Reliability ride next Sunday, hope it warms up a bit.

 

[www.sub7bikes.co.uk]

A very cold 62 miles today,should have worn a hat,I almost had icicles on my ears.

 

[Kirstie]

Too cold for my lungs as it was -2, so I er...bought a car. A second hand one.
Aaanyway on my way to buy said car I passed my local pub, The Pig in Muck, in Claybrooke Magna, and parked outside was an assortment of penny farthings in different colours and safety bicycles. I'm guessing hilldodger had something to do with it...

 

[Noodley]

110km route to Dunkeld, not too cold but cold enough to stop for a coffee to warm ourselves at about 60km. Temperature rose a fair bit on the way home, helped by an increase in speed.

 

[HLaB]

I went for a very short, slow but very enjoyable ride with SPOKES, especially the lunch/ pub stop . We had pretty good weather, chilly but bright. On the way home it started to rain, its bucketing now. PS I don't want to go back to work tomorrow

 

[marinyork]

Grrrr brrrrr. Had planned to do a 20 miler just now but as soon as I went out the door the icey knee pain kicked in so only did 5 miles. Ice already on many corners and it's not even 7pm.

 

[gbb]

22 miles...bright but cold (2 degrees)...turning dark and colder
On the plus side, winter bibs, thermal top etc kept me realy qute warm, i only had cold hands...and now me chillblains are killing me..although my feet didnt get that cold

 

[gbb]

Oooh its nearly time to get the hybrid out ( bigger tyres, more contact)...it's slippery out there. No chance of using the cyclepaths, its road and bus route all the way for me. The cyclepaths are completely iced up. I came across some sections where its sheet ice...be careful out there
But, its still, no wind, and properly dressed, a 3/4 hour ride home was still nice.

 

[HLaB]

Just a short 6.2 mile (round) commute; I was expecting the worse ice wise but the wide hybrid tyres coped well and I stayed on the main roads too.

 

[gbb]

24 miles today, evening ride plus commute...jeeeeeeesus its cold, well my fingers were. Everywhere ese was ok, i seem to have found the right combination of clothing. I may consider some heat packs forinside the gloves

 

[Sittingduck]

Chickened out this morning due to -3 degrees @ 5:30am in Central London and saw snow... got the bus instead