The official start of winter is today.

Bhima
Bhima Posts: 2,145
edited December 2009 in The bottom bracket
At 17:47 exactly, for your information.

So, if you happen to be riding your "summer" bike at this time, simply radio the team car and have your mechanic bring you the spare winter bike.

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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Bhima wrote:
    At 17:47 exactly, for your information.

    So, if you happen to be riding your "summer" bike at this time, simply radio the team car and have your mechanic bring you the spare winter bike.

    The sub-zero temperatures and foot of snow we've had in the last 2 weeks beg to differ. :o
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  • snakehips
    snakehips Posts: 2,272
    Does that mean the weather is going to turn nasty ?


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  • Barrie_G
    Barrie_G Posts: 479
    On the bright side it's also the day with the least amount of day light hours, so from now until the 21st of June you get an extra 2 minutes of daylight each day :D
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Barrie_G wrote:
    On the bright side it's also the day with the least amount of day light hours, so from now until the 21st of June you get an extra 2 minutes of daylight each day :D

    That's an average of 2 minutes a day, you'll barely notice it for the first few days. It's also asymmetric, in that sunrise will continue to get later for another week, but sunset has been getting later for a few days already.

    The day is actually nearly 11 hours longer on midsummer's day round here, you can read outside at midnight on a clear night, and we're nowhere near the real far north - the sun is only down for half an hour on midsummer's night at the northern tip of Shetland. The flipside is that in winter, it can be very, very dark - barely light at 9am here this morning with a few clouds over, and it's pitch dark before 4pm. Again, much worse in the far north; look at a globe or atlas and you'll see how close the Shetlands get to the Arctic circle.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    My team car is stuck on the drive with a foot of snow on it............. :cry:
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    You may call it winter but I think, after all the recent offs, cyclists really should call it the fall
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