Fair weather cyclist?

[BoldonLad]

Snow

• BoldonLad
• 30 Nov 2017

The snow has arrived.

As much as I enjoy a ride out, think I will give it a miss today!

 

[Drago]

Get out and practice those control skills!

 

[BoldonLad]

Get out and practice those control skills!

What an excellent idea, but, first I think I will:

- make a mug of hot chocolate
- read up on technique
- ask moderator to change my UserId to BoldonWimp

oh dear... it is too late to go out, what a shame

 

[Sixmile]

I don't enjoy cycling in really cold or wet weather. I don't do Strava or the like, but I do record how many miles I do each month. The averages always drop off between December and February, then pick up again. I'm still cycling though, and it really doesn't make any difference to anything.

South coast?! It's generally always a little toastier down there, no?

My leisure rides cease around the end of September and pick up around March. It's only for the fact that I try and commute all year round that I have any mileage worth talking about over the winter.

 

[BoldonLad]

[QUOTE 5061463, member: 9609"]I was going to come down into Northumberland for todays ride, but think I will head west insted, 90% blue sky here but very cold (-1c) the rainfall radar thing is showing a lot of rain or snow right on the coast.[/QUOTE]

Yes, unusually, it appears to concentrated along the coast. We are about 2 miles, as the crow flies, inland, and, usually, we get no snow. It is coming down harder than ever now.

 

[BoldonLad]

Like a lot of things, it's all relative. I used to work with a woman from Newcastle who would arrive in short sleeves in what I regarded as sub-zero temperatures, and pour scorn on anyone who thought it was at all cold - because Newcastle was much colder.

Hmm... on my Friday night visits to the pub, there is a guy I chat to, on the bus, en-route. In four years, I have never seen him dressed in anything more than short sleeved shirt and trousers, regardless of the temperature.

I am a coat and muffler type, myself.

 

[mjr]

Ice bike prepped and ready.

No snow here yet!

 

[Vantage]

Snow tyres!
I love riding in the snow. The scenery over the barren moors can be breath taking. Especially with a low sun.
Some of the looks I get from drivers and pedestrians on my way there are brilliant. 'How the **** is he keeping upright on that thing?' Hehehe.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I cannot wait to get out in the snow Absolutely love it!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Here's my winter bike >>>

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[Profpointy]

Hmm... on my Friday night visits to the pub, there is a guy I chat to, on the bus, en-route. In four years, I have never seen him dressed in anything more than short sleeved shirt and trousers, regardless of the temperature.

I am a coat and muffler type, myself.

A pal of mine was queing outside a music venue in about -10C seemingly quite happy in shorts, t shirt and sandals. All the other punters were in heavy coats and wooly hats. Even the doormen came up to look at him in amazement. He'd just returned from 2 years in Antarctica, so London at -10C was a toasty warm summer's day for him

 

[mjr]

Here's my winter bike >>>

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No dynamo hub? So once the hot water cools, that's your lot?

 

[Slick]

I hate doing anything in the snow or ice, don't mind the cold but you just look like a right numpty when your thrown on your ass wondering what exactly went wrong.

Cue the clamour to insist I get an ice bike or fit spiked tyres.

 

[mjr]

I hate doing anything in the snow or ice, don't mind the cold but you just look like a right numpty when your thrown on your ass wondering what exactly went wrong.

Cue the clamour to insist I get an ice bike or fit spiked tyres.

Nah, it's OK. We like you looking like a numpty. Or something.

 

[Slick]