Snow!

[BrumJim]

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North Easterly wind today. Had a great run home last night - took the main road to keep off the icy side roads and got some great speed up. However icy blast in my face all the way into work this morning.

 

[661-Pete]

About five inches round here, mid-Sussex, and still falling (eased off just as I write). Definitely a Shanks's Pony day for me today: complete white-out and few of the roads have been cleared. I'm one of only about half-a-dozen at work. It's quite pleasant walking through the deep powdery snow, but slow progress.

Of course this is the South-East, so everything goes t**s-up.

 

[Downward]

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North Easterly wind today. Had a great run home last night - took the main road to keep off the icy side roads and got some great speed up. However icy blast in my face all the way into work this morning.

Haha strange that as I commute to near Selly Oak !

Side roads round here are aweful through - Do gritters actually do any side roads bearing in mind the hospitals and university ?

I saw a fair few poor students last night slip sliding around the pavements.

It's poor form really.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

6 inches up here in rossendale

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

supposed to be going to a job in sheffield. what is it like in sheffield snow wise?

 

[fossyant]

Lucky gits...we've only had a sprinkling - just enough to make everything go white and look pretty. Saw about 2 bikes today. Main roads clear though - would have ridden had I not had to drive....actually, the wife would have put a stop to it.... (probably becasue it is 12 months to the day I got hit....)..

So who is out MTB'ing off road in this - must be a blast...

 

[Arch]

About an inch in York city, enough to make everything Dickensesque pretty. Slow ride in, but it was mainly slush in the cycle lane, so I stayed out of that - only two slippy bits - my road, which was loose snow on top of frost, and the road just before work, which I negotiated at 5mph, it being utterly flat packed snow due to motor traffic.

Was boiling when I got in, having worn trousers plus waterproof trousers, and a t-shirt, long sleeved top, hoodie and padded/fleece jacket, two buffs, helmet, two pairs of socks and two pairs of gloves. I may have overdone it, but to be honest I was thinking of the amount of padding in case I fell, rather than the cold.

 

[Origamist]

Not many cyclists on the road in south London this morning. No snow on the ground or ice, but I did see a few cars with 3/4" of snow on their roof.

 

[dellzeqq]

black ice all over Clapham Park. Saw one chap come to grief on New Park Road, but mercifully at 5mph. There was absolutely nothing he could do.

 

[trsleigh]

Same in Hyde Park. Seemed ok at north of park where I entered at 7:15, just damp like the rest of my commute. But halfway down the Eastern cycle path two things happened simultaneously. 1. The spray from my front wheel lit up by my front light stopped, and 2. a cyclist pushing his bike and walking towards me started waving. Wonder what he wants thought I, then wallop, down I went.
Looking on the bright side it was so icy that I simply slid along for a while before coming to a stop alongside the waving cyclist.
Poor fellow was most apologetic, explaing he was trying to warn me about the ice. Was he any of you lot?
Anyway no harm done and I continued on my way by foot for a while.

 

[Glow worm]

Wow that was fun. Around 5 inches of snow here. I risked the 10 mile ride to work and although fairly lethal, I made it here in one piece. The cycle paths are a nightmare (blocked in parts by 3-4 ft drifts up around Quy) so came along main roads instead. These were OK though some big lumps of ice to keep me on my toes. Luckily, lots of v. sensible and patient driving going on. The meeting I came in for is cancelled though - typical! Loads of softy Cambridge colleagues can't make it 2 miles across town apparently . The place does look stunning though in the bright sunshine. Looking forward to heading home later- on just one gear (they've frozen solid!)

 

[BigSteev]

Ouch! Down twice in 100 yds of each other thus doubling my total stacks for the whole year. First one was on a corner where, knowing that there's always a puddle there, I'd anticipated the ice and slowed right down, but the front wheel went sideways, down I went putting holes in my (brand new this morning) Altura attack waterproofs and probably the bib tights beneath them. No other damage so back on I get and continue to the end of the cyclepath. At the end I have to cross a road so I just touch the brake to slow as there's a van coming along and bang, down I go again. No damage to me this time (I was actually laughing), but the bike slide into a bollard and smashes the front light to bits.
Rest of the journey was uneventful. I think I might bypass that cyclepath on the way home though.

 

[CatherineB]

It's absolutely gorgeous here in Leeds. Luckily I was able to take today off of work. I just half rode/half walked my bike up to my LBS to get my brakes tightened up (I didn't walk because I was worried about falling, but because the snow was really coming down in huge, fat flakes right in my eyes and I couldn't see for all the blinking!). I've left my bike until tomorrow, and I'm going into town soon on foot for a bit of Christmas shopping, as I am now finally in the mood!

 

[Goldfang]

Snowed like f*$*K here this morning (Northamptonshire) 6-8 inches, looking forward to the ride to work later on today. 2 til' 10 shift, should be interesting coming home tonight. Shiny arsed motorists sliding all over the place when I walked down the paper shop this morning.
Regards, Goldfang.

 

[661-Pete]

Several motorised igloos I saw driving around today, just a small area of the front windscreen cleared, all other windows covered in snow. If I was a copper I'd have booked the lot of them, I cannot believe how lazy some people are! I felt sorely tempted to flag them down, grab the car keys, toss them into the snow somewhere, then tell the driver 'you'll be able to find your keys when the snow melts..' But alas! I'm not that sort of person...