London - icey?

Sewinman
Sewinman Posts: 2,131
edited December 2008 in Commuting chat
Just wondering if other Londoners are cycling in these cold conditions? Is it icey out there?

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  • Totalnewbie
    Totalnewbie Posts: 932
    I live under five miles from Oxford Circus, just the other side of the river, and have been ok so far, no ice. I don't cycle in the very early hours like some though.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    The only icy bit of London I've encountered is teh actual road I live on which for some reason isn't gritted. The rest of it's fine.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    I haven't cycled properly since the SCR xmas bash what with the wife's birthday + trip to Ireland and a nasty cold (not man flu, avatar now changed) - yesterday I popped to the shops on the SS only to turn the corner a find everything completely icy white, still my Michelin tyres held very well.
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  • prj45
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    I set out at 6.30ish, there's frost in the morning on the side roads, and ice in the parks, but generally it's gritted/already busy enough to have melted it all on the main roads.

    I did nearly come a cropper on a puddle of ice the other day.
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    The only icy bit of London I've encountered is teh actual road I live on which for some reason isn't gritted. The rest of it's fine.

    Likewise - 0630 this morning and my road was like an ice rink. Fine by the time I reached the main road, but took it sloooow and easy until then!
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    I've not seen any ice in London at all. Was in Sussex over the weekend and some of the lanes were still icy at 2 in the afternoon.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    There's been no ice in SE london or north Kent, even in the country lanes where I expected it to be a bit dicy.

    It was V icy over the weekend though, was out on the MTB and some parts of the trails didn't thaw out all day.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
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    As per my post on the SCR thread I managed to find a couple of spots with "less traction" this morning.......can be very difficult to spot on wet roads - especially when it's not that glimmering white stuff!

    Having said that I was heading away from town, towards Thames Ditton and it was on residential roads which see less traffic, all the main roads where fine!
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