You know it is winter when..............

Feltup

The clicking sound isn't coming from your bike but from your bare knees.

itboffin

You suddenly have lots of reasons why you CAN'T ride your bike today.

mcmullej

you make two bowls of porridge when you get to work.

one for breakfast and another to defrost your toes in.

attica

You run out of long sleeve base layers and use that as a pathetic excuse not to ride work

Feltup

You get your weekly salt in take from breathing hard on the ride in.

il_principe

The road is refreshingly free of POBS.

linsen

Your bike is utterly filthy every time you arrive home (and in my mundguardless state, my trousers, saddle pack, backpack...)

biondino

90% of the posts on the forum are about bloody lights

SpaceBadger

Your first drink of the day is a nice shot of 'road water' kindly sprayed in your direction by a passing motorist.

singlespeedexplosif

you have beard icicles after a ride

ChrisLS

...your bike is turning into something organic made of road sludge, mud and grit...

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

Your face quite literally falls off after a fast descent of a long hill.

@Attica: Bang on about long sleeve base layers!

The Chingford Skinhead

...you'd rather spend 20 minutes dropping and struggling with your bike lock keys rather than take your gloves off

ChrisLS

...the bike stays in the garage because of ice on the lanes... :?

itboffin

Even though I really don't want to i'm going for a ride now, in the rain and cold.

Rich158

You have to use a kettle to defrost the shed lock

Bassjunkieuk

The bike racks at work are surprisingly empty....

You bag steams when you take it off to get your lock out....(had it happen a couple of times, along with my arms before I started wearing the Gil jacket - very impressive!)

Your average speed takes a sudden nose dive!

greg66_tri_v2.0

I start thinking about using my lobster gloves over my liners.

I wear two pairs of socks, and put the toe warmers on inside my shoes.

il_principe

Greg66 wrote:

I start thinking about using my lobster gloves over my liners.

I wear two pairs of socks, and put the toe warmers on inside my shoes.

bet you have those dinky little Assos toe covers don't you?

Bassjunkieuk

jashburnham wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

I start thinking about using my lobster gloves over my liners.

I wear two pairs of socks, and put the toe warmers on inside my shoes.

bet you have those dinky little Assos toe covers don't you?

They make toe covers?

FFS I hate to think what else they could develop a cover for.........unless they already have one :shock:

james w

...Everyone at work who previously thought you were mental for cycling 17 miles each way to work and back, now thinks you are clinically insane and some kind of weird martyr.

james w

...You start to wonder exactly why it is that you have a top of the range Land Rover Discovery parked on the drive as you cycle through sleet and hail.

dirk_van_gently

Feltup wrote:

The clicking sound isn't coming from your bike but from your bare knees.

Bare knees, you are kidding, right?

You arrive at work with a cleaner than usual bike, because all the mud and muck you usually ride through is frozen solid, a bit like your fingers.

simple_salmon

You have nipples like bullets all ride :oops:

il_principe

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

I start thinking about using my lobster gloves over my liners.

I wear two pairs of socks, and put the toe warmers on inside my shoes.

bet you have those dinky little Assos toe covers don't you?

They make toe covers?

FFS I hate to think what else they could develop a cover for.........unless they already have one :shock:

biondino

Is that fishnet?

greg66_tri_v2.0

jashburnham wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

I start thinking about using my lobster gloves over my liners.

I wear two pairs of socks, and put the toe warmers on inside my shoes.

bet you have those dinky little Assos toe covers don't you?

They make toe covers?

FFS I hate to think what else they could develop a cover for.........unless they already have one :shock:

Them's the chaps.

Today I had them (inside the shoes), the Assos air-block leggings, an Assos 851 jacket, and 2/3 of the Assos winter glove system on.

And you know what? IT WORKS!

[in fact, I wear the toe covers inside my shoes because they snag on the cleats/pedals, and missing a clip in is a sure fire way to fcuk the ol' back-a-roo]

Feltup

Dirk Van Gently wrote:

Feltup wrote:

The clicking sound isn't coming from your bike but from your bare knees.

Bare knees, you are kidding, right?
You arrive at work with a cleaner than usual bike, because all the mud and muck you usually ride through is frozen solid, a bit like your fingers.

Errr no, it didn't feel too bad when I got up in the morning and actually on the way in was fine, the ride home however!


You see people cycling along with tinsel on their bikes and grit in their teeth.

iain_j

I know it's winter when on arriving in work i can't do anything except wait for the pain to subside and silently scream as my fingers slowly thaw out (my gloves don't work).

Also i can't remember the colour of my bike under the grit and road-filth.

Feltup

When your work colleagues phone for an ambulance not realising you just have hotaches and the pain and screaming will end in a few minutes.


I would like to point out that I don't scream from hotaches and the tears in my eyes are not from crying but just from the cold wind making them water OK?

lost_in_thought

When I forget to put on my base layer and it actually matters.