Which Nutters cycled in then......?

[skudupnorth]

Work today...

 

[Armegatron]

Get a household cleaner spray bottle and add some mild detergent and use a roll of paper towel. It's quick, no mess and done in 5 minutes.

And make sure you dry it off and re-lube the chain and cables etc. quick smart!

Careful where you wash it, though, as you don't want the ice which will form to cause any issues for you or anyone else.

Bucket of warm water with washing up liquid and bubbles lots of them. Use washing up brushes to give it a thorough clean all over, everything, then get the hose on it rinsing with cold water if of course the outside tap hasn't frozen up. At the very least just do the chain and transmission and relube. The concentrated salt solution is a component and frame killer.

Cheers, just went out with it on a short one to test out my new Veho Muvi . After getting into some nice warm clothes I had a try with these tips and trickled some water down (hose pipe was partially frozen anyway), warm soapy water to give a quick rub down, back into conservatory with lots of newspaper on the floor, regreased & oiled. Amazing how shiney its looking now, to think just an hour ago I was trundling through snow and the white bike was nigh on black .

 

[Armegatron]

Get a household cleaner spray bottle and add some mild detergent and use a roll of paper towel. It's quick, no mess and done in 5 minutes.

And make sure you dry it off and re-lube the chain and cables etc. quick smart!

Careful where you wash it, though, as you don't want the ice which will form to cause any issues for you or anyone else.

Bucket of warm water with washing up liquid and bubbles lots of them. Use washing up brushes to give it a thorough clean all over, everything, then get the hose on it rinsing with cold water if of course the outside tap hasn't frozen up. At the very least just do the chain and transmission and relube. The concentrated salt solution is a component and frame killer.

Cheers, just went out with it on a short one to test out my new Veho Muvi . After getting into some nice warm clothes I had a try with these tips and trickled some water down (hose pipe was partially frozen anyway), warm soapy water to give a quick rub down, back into conservatory with lots of newspaper on the floor, regreased & oiled. Amazing how shiney its looking now, to think just an hour ago I was trundling through snow and the white bike was nigh on black .

 

[yashicamat]

Skudupnorth - is that the Handforth Porsche dealer (in the dip)?

I'll be on the MTB tomorrow - today was just too hairy by car. I'll stick to the backroads on the softer snow on the MTB. Took an hour to do 4.5 miles this morning.

 

[yashicamat]

Skudupnorth - is that the Handforth Porsche dealer (in the dip)?

I'll be on the MTB tomorrow - today was just too hairy by car. I'll stick to the backroads on the softer snow on the MTB. Took an hour to do 4.5 miles this morning.

 

[skudupnorth]

Skudupnorth - is that the Handforth Porsche dealer (in the dip)?

I'll be on the MTB tomorrow - today was just too hairy by car. I'll stick to the backroads on the softer snow on the MTB. Took an hour to do 4.5 miles this morning.

No,it's Bolton but Handforth is part of our group

 

[skudupnorth]

Skudupnorth - is that the Handforth Porsche dealer (in the dip)?

I'll be on the MTB tomorrow - today was just too hairy by car. I'll stick to the backroads on the softer snow on the MTB. Took an hour to do 4.5 miles this morning.

No,it's Bolton but Handforth is part of our group

 

[Flipside]

hard work today, did not enjoy it on the way into work but coming back was more fun

 

[Flipside]

hard work today, did not enjoy it on the way into work but coming back was more fun

 

[Two mile commute]

The cycle in was fine today but the return journey was icy on the roads. I'm tempted to leave the bike at home and use the Apollo bicycle-shaped-object tomorrow.

 

[Two mile commute]

The cycle in was fine today but the return journey was icy on the roads. I'm tempted to leave the bike at home and use the Apollo bicycle-shaped-object tomorrow.

 

[skudupnorth]

Ice is my big worry for tomorrow (if i go in ! ) So tempted to grab the sledge and take the kids out,might as well enjoy it while it lasts because i cannot remember snow ever like this and i'm 43 now !

 

[skudupnorth]

Ice is my big worry for tomorrow (if i go in ! ) So tempted to grab the sledge and take the kids out,might as well enjoy it while it lasts because i cannot remember snow ever like this and i'm 43 now !

 

[Plax]

I'll have to go in tomorrow. Mr Plax has left his car at work and we took my car home, well to his house. We aborted any attempt at going to mine as my road was impassable and other people had beaten me to it and parked their cars all along the main street which gets gritted so there wasn't even anywhere to park to walk home.

Earlier on people on shifts couldn't get home so had to come back to work. We were going to walk back to mine from work (4 miles), but when we left at 4:30pm the snow on the hill had gone slushy so we thought we's wing it in my car. Hopefully tomorrow it will have cleared more.

 

[Plax]

I'll have to go in tomorrow. Mr Plax has left his car at work and we took my car home, well to his house. We aborted any attempt at going to mine as my road was impassable and other people had beaten me to it and parked their cars all along the main street which gets gritted so there wasn't even anywhere to park to walk home.

Earlier on people on shifts couldn't get home so had to come back to work. We were going to walk back to mine from work (4 miles), but when we left at 4:30pm the snow on the hill had gone slushy so we thought we's wing it in my car. Hopefully tomorrow it will have cleared more.