Oh My word

[downfader]

I managed to get home OK. Walked for 20mins until I saw one of the roads was partly cleared thanks to the cars that had already driven up there. Managed to cycle until I was 5 mins from home then I had to walk again. By god it takes some concentration riding in the wheel tracks of mostly slushy snow but there were some patches of rock hard blobs of ice which I wobbled on a couple of times too.

Chickened out tonight and got a taxi to work but looking at the roads I could've cycled most of the way but by the way it's freezing over I think it was the safe choice.

If you dont have the kit or the confidence then I think thats the right decision to make. So its not really chickening out imo.

 

[Piemaster]

Cycling back was fun - but I was only wearing a helmet on my head and so was utterly frozen by the time I had got back.

I'm not surprised! Surely some clothes as well would be a good idea.

 

[johnr]

Well, it looksl ike I might be stuck in work in the morning.

Snow is about a foot deep so far and it's still dropping out of the sky.

Just wondering if I'll manage to cycle home. How deep is too deep when it comes to cycling in the snow ???

Is this you bigging it up in today's Guardian?