if it snows tomorrow

Shadowduck

Guess which silly sod took the treaded tyres off his hybrid to put nice new semi-slicks on over christmas? :roll:

Oh well, they got me here ok. Snow's coming down now, so it should be fun on the way home...

Clever Pun

el_presidente wrote:

Snow my ars*

In London I reckon it was much colder in that spell in December.

with the wind chill maybe, but my lawn wasn't covered in ice, that's my marker for wearing a buff as it stings my face

Edit: rereads post... yes December was colder...

wastelander

What a great winter day for a ride! Snow had started to settle but the roads were clear so off I headed into the South Yorkshire countryside for my 14 mile commute through snow-sprinkled countryside...sweet! There have been a few flurries through the day but I'm really looking forward to my return journey tonight.

el_presidente

Met Office radar now shows bulk of precipitation missing London. good news for us soft southern jessies.

Gussio

el_presidente wrote:

Met Office radar now shows bulk of precipitation missing London. good news for us soft southern jessies.

Curses. A light dusting of snow was to be my excuse for leaving early today. Will now have to make up some winter vomiting ailment instead.

skinny man0903

if it is possible to cycle I will but I won't be using the back roads, though they seem too be one of the better countys to grit the main roads !

surfgurl

Skinny man, if you go on the Somerset website- somerset.gov.uk They have a map which shows all the roads in the county that are gritted.
One of the highways depots is on my route, so I know that road gets gritted!

nwallace

Gussio wrote:

el_presidente wrote:

Met Office radar now shows bulk of precipitation missing London. good news for us soft southern jessies.

Curses. A light dusting of snow was to be my excuse for leaving early today. Will now have to make up some winter vomiting ailment instead.

Apparently the Novovirus is having a particularly active year. sadly I doubt I can use fear of catching it as an excuse for not going into the hospital (work) on Monday.

Is a bigger contact patch on inline wheeled vehicles as bad as on parallel wheeled vehicles?
Dad was demonstrating the pishness of 215-35-18 tyres and a stupidly torqey diesel engine in the snow. Last time there was heavy snow and he needed to be somewhere (Cumbria) he decided to do the journey in the rally car.

Have to agree with the people not knowing how to drive in winter weather here (yes its not just you Suvreners who can't drive when friction disappears)

My first encounter with icy snowy roads was about 4 weeks after first putting L plates on a car. Still stupid enough to keep the winter tyres in the boot until it's too late :shock:

DavidTQ

nwallace wrote:

Gussio wrote:

el_presidente wrote:

Met Office radar now shows bulk of precipitation missing London. good news for us soft southern jessies.

Curses. A light dusting of snow was to be my excuse for leaving early today. Will now have to make up some winter vomiting ailment instead.

Apparently the Novovirus is having a particularly active year. sadly I doubt I can use fear of catching it as an excuse for not going into the hospital (work) on Monday.

Is a bigger contact patch on inline wheeled vehicles as bad as on parallel wheeled vehicles?
Dad was demonstrating the pishness of 215-35-18 tyres and a stupidly torqey diesel engine in the snow. Last time there was heavy snow and he needed to be somewhere (Cumbria) he decided to do the journey in the rally car.

Have to agree with the people not knowing how to drive in winter weather here (yes its not just you Suvreners who can't drive when friction disappears)

My first encounter with icy snowy roads was about 4 weeks after first putting L plates on a car. Still stupid enough to keep the winter tyres in the boot until it's too late :shock:

Driving a car beyond the realms of friction requires a greater appreciation for car physics than the vast majority of drivers are gifted with, If your dad ran a rally car chances are he built up a fair appreciation of car physics, it certain helped me. Ive made the same choice as well when the snow hit and I happened to have the rally car set up for forrest use and it was sat in the drive , It was an easy choice to make really snow on the roads cars sliding off all over the place, time to have some fun and show up the 4x4 pavement climbers

I remember one year when we had a decent snow fall all the staff dropped their cars off on the road at the bottom of the hill and I drove them up the moderately steep drive to the car park at the back as none of them were able to get the cars up the drive The snow had gone sufficiently for them to negotiate the way down safely at home time:D

Physics are very different between car and bike tyres I dont believe a bike tyre is wide enough to cause the same issues as on a car and the power weight and rotation speed are all so different. Even in the dry a wide car tyre can reduce handling on a car over a skinnier tyre if the tyre isnt wellamtched to the car! Wider tyres dont equal more grip even on a dry day in a car. Bike tyres dont have the same heat effects as far as I know. Cant say Ive spent as long yet messing around with bike tyres as I have car tyres... At least bike tyres are cheap and theres only two of them to buy

Gussio

In the end, it was a great commute last night - healthy tail wind and exceptionally low traffic levels. No snow to be seen. Wonder if people opted to leave the car at home in fear of the white stuff? Anyway, it was very pleasant.

Belv

I took the MTB just in case, but not a flake was to be seen.

Mog Uk

I was thankfull that the ride home was dry and snow-free, I got a puncture half way into the commute and had to swap the tube......

Typical UK weather, it was raining this morning.....

Shadowduck

Gussio wrote:

*snip* ... healthy tail wind ... *snip*

You LIE!

Everybody knows those things are nothing but an urban legend.

spen666

Shadowduck wrote:

Gussio wrote:

*snip* ... healthy tail wind ... *snip*

You LIE!

Everybody knows those things are nothing but an urban legend.

not after the sprout and baked beans in the lentil casserole I had last night

Gussio

Hahaha....I promise that it happened. Just ask the Sasquatch in Hi-Viz who overtook me....