Yay, it's 2 degrees centigrade and it's raining!
prj45
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Pending a disaster tonight (i.e. it getting very cold and icing up) I'll be riding in tommorrow!
HT @cathwiggins:
http://twitter.com/cathwiggins/status/7602904793
HT @cathwiggins:
http://twitter.com/cathwiggins/status/7602904793
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I'm feeling a bit disappointed, cycled to work every day last week and loved it - felt like a bit of an adventure at times. even getting my first P*ncture in 2 years on my Marathon plus with what looked like Council grit.0
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rally200 wrote:even getting my first P*ncture in 2 years on my Marathon plus with what looked like Council grit.
Yeah I did one return journey last week, one day in, next day home. Got punctures on both rides, but luckily just as I was pulling up at my destination.
If I get another one tommorrow I'll give it a miss for a while again I think, I do 24 miles a day so if the council is using sharp glass to bulk up the grit (it claims the glass is rounded according to spec but a fair few pieces must get through) then I'm bound to atrract a few pieces.0 -
'centigrade'? It's not the seventies any more, you know..0
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singlespeedexplosif wrote:'centigrade'? It's not the seventies any more, you know..
Eep, you know what, I didn't know it wasn't called centigrade any more... I've been using that for years and nobody's every brought me up on it.The Celsius scale is the centigrade scale with one change. Defined in 1954 at the 10th General Conference of Weights and Measures, temperature on the Celsius scale is the temperature on the Kelvin scale minus 273.15. This definition makes values on the Celsius and centigrade scale agree within less than 0.1 degree. For everyday purposes, the scales are identical. One reason for doing away with the word “centigrade,” was that it might be confused with one-hundredth of a grade, a unit of plane angle.
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prj45 wrote:rally200 wrote:even getting my first P*ncture in 2 years on my Marathon plus with what looked like Council grit.
Yeah I did one return journey last week, one day in, next day home. Got punctures on both rides, but luckily just as I was pulling up at my destination.
If I get another one tommorrow I'll give it a miss for a while again I think, I do 24 miles a day so if the council is using sharp glass to bulk up the grit (it claims the glass is rounded according to spec but a fair few pieces must get through) then I'm bound to atrract a few pieces.
Mine looked like a stone age flint arrow head - only muddy brown, nothing like our local flints0 -
Rain and sleet ere in Norf Wales.
Hope it doesn't freeze o/night.
Other night, both car doors/lock frozen up. Had to open hatchback crawl thro to open the doors. Was about minus 6 or less.0 -
Yeah, it must have been warm last night because it's all slushed up now on South Tyneside. I was going to go for a ride this afternoon but the slush looked worse then the thick, sticky snow!
Yeah, I'm softCAAD9
Kona Jake the Snake
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Was snowing this morning at mine - but a few hundred feet lower it was very cold, very wet rain.Faster than a tent.......0
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Snow and rain in South Manchester and a slow thaw.
I've not been on a bike in 3 weeks (well, I rode to work on boxing day because only a few buses were running), this week I'm on late shift so I'm back on the hard-tail again.
Not really looking forward to it, the bus at 5:20am was warm and comfy, I did see a handful of cyclists on the road at that time when it was MINUS 17 :shock:
Still, the time has come to get back into shape I spose .
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singlespeedexplosif wrote:'centigrade'? It's not the seventies any more, you know..
And be honest - it all makes sense to us whatever scale they use.
Anyway - we had a bit of a thaw yesterday indicating that this snow madness will in fact end soon, then this morning there was another couple of inches on the car roof & windscreen when I went out to it, so we're back to where we were on Friday. Oh when will it end? Won't someone think of the poor children?0 -
The thaw has set in, but some of my route is still dicey. Especially this morning; the ice was very wet and slippery. So I still have my wider tyres on. That means I have no mudguards; the back of my jacket is a MESS. I might put my slicker tyres & guards back on this evening.0
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I was on the bike last week - just took the bus today after a busy weekend - knackered...
Back on bike tomorrow - side roads are a slippy mush.0 -
The Celsius scale is the centigrade scale with one change. blah, blah, blah...... One reason for doing away with the word “centigrade,” was that it might be confused with one-hundredth of a grade, a unit of plane angle.
It also avoids it being confused with a centipedeFCN = 40 -
Yup was a cold dark wet grit filled ride in this morining. Was SOOOO nice to be back on the bike!0
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Had grand plans to do the full 40 miles but wussed out both ways, did 21 but at least I don't hate the bike like I did after last Thursdays ride.
Grim tonight though, getting cold and dark, freezing fog and, for some reason, lots of dodgy drivers overtaking where there wasn't really space.0 -
Mountainboy2465 wrote:Had grand plans to do the full 40 miles but wussed out both ways, did 21 but at least I don't hate the bike like I did after last Thursdays ride.
Grim tonight though, getting cold and dark, freezing fog and, for some reason, lots of dodgy drivers overtaking where there wasn't really space.
That happened to me too today.
The commute made me knackered, hope it is just the conditions, and not unfitness.0