fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Snow Studs go on my retro MTB from December - mainly for ICY rides. The Ice Spiker Pro's are awaiting some seriously cold weather to put on the full sus and get out there having a ball.
How long have we got before the Euro blizzards hit?
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Snow Studs go on my retro MTB from December - mainly for ICY rides. The Ice Spiker Pro's are awaiting some seriously cold weather to put on the full sus and get out there having a ball.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Would have helped if I'd not had a typo in my post: "no" should be "Now"
If I don't fit them, then at 0630 in the morning at some point in the near future I'll have the choice of trying to fit them rapidly in the freezing cold, or trying to get to the tram stop on snow and ice with semi slick tyres. I've done this before but don't ever want to do it again...
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
You just don't know how to have fun! I commute on the same tyres all year round and adjust my riding style accordingly.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Coats?
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
I remember the snow last year when the chap on the telly said if your travelling remember to take blankets, a shovel , a torch and a thermos flask...... I looked a right p!llock getting on the bus carrying that lot
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
When will the blizzards hit us...the day after tomorrow.. see what I did ther...... yeah I’ve got my coat
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Falling sideways into a snowbank counts as a riding style now?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
We had a yellow warning for sun today. Just as well, without my sun glasses the retinas would have burnt out.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Nathan Rao's weather forecasts are hysterical (I mean literally) and funny. He's driving 'proper' meteorologists mad!
https://www.express.co.uk/search?s=Nathan Rao&b=1
What a joke that rag is.
https://www.express.co.uk/search?s=Nathan Rao&b=1
What a joke that rag is.
He’s been well taught by that other idiot Piers Corbyn!
Nope! We have had a vast amount of rain over the weekend but only a small amount of sleet, which doesn't count. Might just be lucky tomorrow in my Neckar the woods (as it were). The real deluge has been to the south in the at this time of year not very aptly named Black Forest.
Did enjoy my last Christmas market in Speyer on Saturday night. They keep it going for some reason until the 6th of Jan. You can get Stollen, if you are that way inclined, dirt cheap on the last day, but on Saturday I was too scared of the fearsome-looking lady running the stall to try to negotiate a reduction in price a day early. (I nicked some instead, only to be promptly arrested by the police for carrying Stollen goods .... )
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Glad to hear you are okay: most Swabians (inhabitants of the Stuttgart region) are convinced that Heilbronn is under a permanent Ice sheet and inhabited by trolls.
Obviously this is nonsense and they are confusing it with Hamburg.
Oh, dear, oh dear...
A slight improvement on 'Neckar the woods'. If you will try to have your cake and eat it...
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
I suspect the weather conditions here may be a little different to Ashton-under-Lyme. I also have it on good authoritty that I'm "Unbalanced" so I suspect I need all the help I can get...
I've managed more embarrasing things than that without the assistance of weather.
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Much appreciated. I did wonder if the forum might be doing without you for a considerable time having heard they have nabbed the person responsible for stealing data on German politicians and other worthies ...
