Who is hibernating now?

[gavroche]

All year round for me. If it's really stormy or thick ice, I might go for a swim. Lots of layers is the secret.

The cold doesn't worry me but the road surface does. Slick tyres don't like winter.

 

[400bhp]

The cold doesn't worry me but the road surface does. Slick tyres don't like winter.

Slick tyres are fine.

 

[e-rider]

I have a plan to holiday in a sunny country from Dec-Feb one day (in my dreams) - I hate cycling in winter but do it enough to keep some fitness. I usually try the rollers at the beginning of each winter but the boredom kills me! I'm already looking forward to March/April

 

[screenman]

The cold doesn't worry me but the road surface does. Slick tyres don't like winter.

I will ride slicks on most rides, luckily for me I do have a good selection of bikes and I can ride off road from my garden, so on really bad icy days it will be one of the MTBs

 

[S-Express]

Wet roads, dead leaves, salty tarmac is not for me .

All the more room on the roads for the rest of us then.

 

[gavroche]

I have a plan to holiday in a sunny country from Dec-Feb one day (in my dreams) - I hate cycling in winter but do it enough to keep some fitness. I usually try the rollers at the beginning of each winter but the boredom kills me! I'm already looking forward to March/April

I know the feeling about being bored whilst on rollers. I take my laptop with me and put a film on, it helps.

 

[gavroche]

All the more room on the roads for the rest of us then.

Are you coming up to North Wales then?

 

[tallliman]

I think my miles will taper off compared to the summer but hoping to ride through the winter. I dont want to lose the fitness I've gained this year. so, to answer the op, nope not stopping!

 

[S-Express]

Are you coming up to North Wales then?

You mean the bit of Wales that is in line with Manchester and Sheffield and south of Leeds, York and other areas where thousands of riders routinely ride throughout winter?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Over the past few years I have ridden considerably more miles in winter than I have in Summer - I tend to put my bikes away during the Summer when all the nobbers who have spent most of the winter racing against others on a computer in their homes/garages come out

 

[gavroche]

Over the past few years I have ridden considerably more miles in winter than I have in Summer - I tend to put my bikes away during the Summer when all the nobbers who have spent most of the winter racing against others on a computer in their homes/garages come out

You are quite a rude person aren't you?

 

[Oldbloke]

I'm stuck using a turbo trainer for the next few weeks, due to shoulder surgery, otherwise I'd be out every other day as usual.

Never realised how unpleasant it would be on the TT with one arm in a sling...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

You are quite a rude person aren't you?

You are quite touchy and seem to take any comment made personally - you need to get over yourself.

 

[I like Skol]

There are very few days that aren't suitable for riding

I haven't found any yet in the six+ years I have been commuting. Can't honestly think of any valid reason to stop riding in winter!

 

[Drago]

Cycling skills are for life. A few weeks off the bike won't degrade them. I have always found myself comfortable on a bike, no matter how long a break.

Rubbish. You'll likely never actually forget how to ride a bike, but your skills and roadcraft will degrade for sure. This is why people practice things, to enhance and maintain their ability to conduct a particular task. You've only to look at the typical roadie wobbling about the place come Spring after four or five months on nothing but rollers.