First commute of 2009

[marooncat]

Fingers crossed tomorrow will be my first day back. I have had a cold since the New Year which would not really have put me off but this morning was also the first morning I have not had to de-frost my car and I do not do riding in the ice (route is either cycle path that is not gritted or a busy main road that I do not want to risk coming off on)

 

[hackbike 666]

Aye and it's cold up narth lad.

 

[Keith Oates]

Did my first commute for the year today, although it was dark for the first 15Kms so not so pleasurable as I had hoped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fossyant]

Yes....3c, damp, no ice...my first commute of the year (not first ride), although some tool did turn left on me, forcing me to brake hard, despite me shouting that I was going straifght on......here the fun starts eh....

 

[BSA]

Did my first commute today. The weather was much warmer than previous days. A nice gentle 4.5 mile trip to the office.

Really enjoyed the ride, I am getting more confident with holding my ground and filtering correctly. Good old cyclecraft for christmas!

 

[goo_mason]

First commmute of the year today - it was a sweltering 5 degrees this morning, so no chance of any unexpected ice to have me off !

 

[marooncat]

First commmute of the year today - it was a sweltering 5 degrees this morning, so no chance of any unexpected ice to have me off !

I almost got caught out the other way, thought it was to warm for ice till I went "through" my first puddle this morning, it took my half asleep brain about half a minute to work out why I had not gone "through" the puddle but "over" it. Luckily most of the "puddles" I have to contend with are on the same stretch of path so having negotiated them I was ok ish.

Then coming home tonight I had an argument with myself most of the way home, my sensible head saying I should go the boring main road and my unsensible head saying go the cycle path which is more interesting (as much as anything can be interesting in the dark) and also longer. My unsensible head won the argument and I survived

 

[goo_mason]

Glad you survived the 'puddle' and didn't get woken up by a sudden meeting with the tarmac !!!

Fortunately for me, all of the puddles I encountered were wet - I had the spatters up my rucksack cover to prove it, and the bike's in need of a wash...

 

[marooncat]

No go again this morning...will this frost ever stop ..

 

[goo_mason]

No go again this morning...will this frost ever stop ..

I didn't realise that it was frosty until I got along to the end of the Shore and turned off along Coalhill. The frost there was like a thin coating of snow !!

However, despite the fact that the roads and paths had been soaking wet yesterday, there was no ice and just a fairly heavy frosting over everything this morning. The surfaces weren't dangerously slippery; they can't have been - I didn't fall off !!!

 

[HLaB]

I didn't realise that it was frosty until I got along to the end of the Shore and turned off along Coalhill. The frost there was like a thin coating of snow !!

However, despite the fact that the roads and paths had been soaking wet yesterday, there was no ice and just a fairly heavy frosting over everything this morning. The surfaces weren't dangerously slippery; they can't have been - I didn't fall off !!!

It was quite similar for me I didn't see the frost till the top of Granton Road on the pavement but the road surfaces were ok.

 

[goo_mason]

Ferry Road had about a metre and bit of frost coming into the road from the pavement; Telford Road was fine, Groathill Road was a a bit dodgy, the path between there and Russell Road was almost all thick frost, the road down to Roseburn Park was frosted over, as was the Park and Riversdale Crescent / Saughtonhall Avenue / Whitson whatever-it-is. Along Broomhouse / Bankhead it was fine on the roads.

 

[marooncat]

I woke up to a white world due to frost and given the way my car went sideways when trying to turn a corner up the hill out my estate I think my bike was as well in the garage for the day

 

[goo_mason]

I woke up to a white world due to frost and given the way my car went sideways when trying to turn a corner up the hill out my estate I think my bike was as well in the garage for the day

Scary !

The glittering white world was a stunning visual delight though. Did make me go "Oooooooooooooo !!" in admiration a few times this morning.