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

[John the Monkey]

Treacherous around my way - very "snatchy" in the slush (wheels occasionally just stop), and frozen ruts under it make the handling interesting.

Elsewhere there's a mix of bare tarmac and bumpy ice with a coating of water on top of it. Predictably, pavements and cyclepaths are lethal in comparison to most of the roads.

 

[upsidedown]

Lanes around Solihull very dodgy again. The slushy stuff and ice i can deal with, but there are big patches of compacted dry snow that break away under the front wheel.
Ended up taking a detour through Tanworth to avoid the main roads and ride through the fresh powdery stuff.
13 miles in 2 hours, but who's counting ?

 

[ianrauk]

South East Londinium seems to be ok. The side roads are a little but slushy after another small snowfall last night. But the main roads are fine.

 

[magnatom]

The melt has certainly started, however, that just makes the icy side roads that little bit more challenging, with wet ice instead of dry ice.

Main routes are much better though.

 

[summerdays]

Mr Summerdays set off this morning and came back again ... it was the wrong type of snow for his tyres (which we had already worked out had no grip), and basically he was unable to move forwards - he only got to 2 roads away before he gave up. Luckily for him maybe the start of a thaw and also some new tyres are in the post.

 

[bonker]

A cycle of two halves

While the main roads are fine around here the minors ones are plain wierd. The ice and slush a breaking up too much to cycle over but not enough to cycle through. Clear one minute, iced up the next.
Felt great sailing past all of the car queues though if somewhat unpopular with the driving fraternity. A nice motorist, travelling in the other direction (lucky for him) just outside Epsom kindly wound down his window to call me a prick. ' It is 'cos I is moving??
Plus ca change.

 

[levad]

Another commute in for me. More snow last night. It took me 1h30m to do 17 miles (I forgot something and had to go home to get it). It took some folk here more than 2h to do 8 miles in their tin boxes!

 

[BentMikey]

Not me - got a chest lurgy. I couldn't have worked anyway yesterday due to all the snow. Gutted.

 

[Wheeledweenie]

I got back on the bike this morning. Walked to the main road to be safe as my road was still very slick. Was ok but drivers were jumpy and some other cyclists were being incredibly silly and one nearly took me off.

 

[palinurus]

Now it's warmed up a bit the surfaces on the side roads are a bit more challenging I reckon. Main routes were fine for me today though.

 

[Amanda P]

I was off the bike last week for reasons of heavy colds and heavy snow.

Both have cleared somewhat this week.

 

[classic33]

More cars on the roads this morning after the long break last week meant that more of them got stuck again. One or two chancing their luck.

Council also decided that road narrowing would still take place to allow for no roadworks to be carried out. Due to snow. Made a bad situation worse.

 

[redjedi]

Didn't risk it today, as we had a bit more snow overnight, roads were clear but didn't want to risk hitting a patch of black ice.

So as long as there's no rain or snow overnight, I'll be riding tomorrow.

 

[Downward]

Horrible today - Wet Wet Wet and still damn slippy at the sides of the road.
More concerned tomorrow about walking to be honest !

 

[AlanW]

3" snow last night made my ride to work interesting at 6 o'clock this morning.