so who's commuting in the snow?

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  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    Day 14 and the snow still hasn't stopped me
    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • gb155
    gb155 Posts: 2,048
    Me, Im doing it and LOVING it, tho I have ordered some studded tyres as the canal bank has gonr from compacted snow (great to ride on) to sheet ice, feels like bambi to ride on.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Took the long way home last night, the snow is still significant out near biggin hill. Might have been a bit scary in full snow fall with the hills etc. All the cycle lanes are still covered and it's significantly colder
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  • hfidgen
    hfidgen Posts: 340
    gb155 wrote:
    Me, Im doing it and LOVING it, tho I have ordered some studded tyres as the canal bank has gonr from compacted snow (great to ride on) to sheet ice, feels like bambi to ride on.

    Gaz - just had a look at your sig / blog and blown away! Awesome effort!
    FCN 4 - BMC CX02
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    hfidgen wrote:
    gb155 wrote:
    Me, Im doing it and LOVING it, tho I have ordered some studded tyres as the canal bank has gonr from compacted snow (great to ride on) to sheet ice, feels like bambi to ride on.

    Gaz - just had a look at your sig / blog and blown away! Awesome effort!

    +1
    You've lost over twice what I weigh :shock:
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  • nich
    nich Posts: 888
    Ah, the sun the sun!

    It's summertime in the city of London, well it looks like it, it doesn't feel like it 8) 8)
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    @Gaz - Always inspiring. Looking good. 8)
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  • gb155
    gb155 Posts: 2,048
    Cheers guys

    Your comments are always I appreciated

    I am LOV'in the new life.....:D
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    December 2007 - 39 Stone 05 Lbs

    July 2011 - 13 Stone 12 Lbs - Cycled 17851 Miles

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    Now the hard work starts.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Oh for Gods' sake, stop encouraging the guy.

    He gave birth to triplets and had a big dump. I don't know what all the fuss is about. :roll:
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  • gb155
    gb155 Posts: 2,048
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Oh for Gods' sake, stop encouraging the guy.

    He gave birth to triplets and had a big dump. I don't know what all the fuss is about. :roll:

    Big Dump ????????

    How dare you !!!!!!

    It was HUGE !!!!!! :)
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    December 2007 - 39 Stone 05 Lbs

    July 2011 - 13 Stone 12 Lbs - Cycled 17851 Miles

    http://39stonecyclist.com
    Now the hard work starts.
  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    Spent a couple of hours digging out the unmelted snow from the road, it felt like a revenge attack after it knocked me off yesterday.
    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Right.

    Latest news on the weather front...

    xggvp5.jpg

    Please note how confident the temperatures are for the 17th....

    aaaand a nice picture to scare the Scots:

    w6zckw.jpg
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    aaaand a nice picture to scare the Scots:

    And the English in Scotland.

    The snow still hasn't gone from my commute yet - but then I guess I have one of the highest and most northerly commutes.

    I'm soooo glad I bought winter tyres for the cars this year
    ROAD < Scott Foil HMX Di2, Volagi Liscio Di2, Jamis Renegade Elite Di2, Cube Reaction Race > ROUGH
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Right.

    Latest news on the weather front...

    xggvp5.jpg

    Please note how confident the temperatures are for the 17th....

    aaaand a nice picture to scare the Scots:

    w6zckw.jpg

    Cool* pic Kieren, where did you get it ?

    Somewhere on the Met office I guess?




    *Boom boom
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    It's a guy on Scoobynet who is supplying them. I figure with our greater reliance on the weather for safe commutes it would be of use over here.

    Latest chart:

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I was more than a little surprised this morning to see snow still in some of the fields.
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Here it is I think:
    http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=ensviewer;sess=

    And wiki about it:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Forecast_System
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Not going anywhere yet, not until this fog clears there's no way i'm being taken out by a SMIDSY.
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • fnegroni
    fnegroni Posts: 794
    meanredspider wrote:

    I'm soooo glad I bought winter tyres for the cars this year

    Same here. They were on offer at Kwikfit: £400 for a set of 4 x Conti WinterContact TS830 (205/55R16) which normally retail at just under £600.

    The handling, even at just above freezing temperatures, is way better then the set of summer tyres we had.
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  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    fnegroni wrote:
    meanredspider wrote:

    I'm soooo glad I bought winter tyres for the cars this year

    Same here. They were on offer at Kwikfit: £400 for a set of 4 x Conti WinterContact TS830 (205/55R16) which normally retail at just under £600.
    .

    As with Ice Spikers on the bike, winter bike cloting etc, they've enabled me to "engineer" my way through the elements. After fitting a set of very expensive Michelin Pilot Alpins to the old E Class Merc (which had been utterly useless in last winter's snow) in order to make sure I can get my son backwards and forwards to Glasgow (180 miles each way through the Highlands) for chemo, I was so impressed, I'm fitting a set of the Contis like yours to the Alfa 156. Ironically, the tyres were stuck in Glasgow because of the snow as were the old alloys I bought to fit them to!

    I've been really impressed with my Assos Airjack Ltd too - at -1C the fronts of my arms (with nothing but the jacket protecting them) stay warm whilst I can feel the cooling effect at the rear. My body, with my summer ShuttVR SS jersey underlayer, is actually too warm at this temperature.

    I love to be able to "ignore" the weather and just be able to get on with what I need to do.
    ROAD < Scott Foil HMX Di2, Volagi Liscio Di2, Jamis Renegade Elite Di2, Cube Reaction Race > ROUGH
  • fnegroni
    fnegroni Posts: 794
    meanredspider wrote:
    I love to be able to "ignore" the weather and just be able to get on with what I need to do.

    +1
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  • Philcho
    Philcho Posts: 57
    Was about to go out for a quick lunchtime blast when it appears to have started snowing...again. The paths and sideroads had only just become reasonably safe to ride on too... :(
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  • fnegroni
    fnegroni Posts: 794
    I predict the sales of Marathon Winter/Ice Spiker/Snow Stud to go up next year...
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  • hatbeard
    hatbeard Posts: 1,087
    fnegroni wrote:
    I predict the sales of Marathon Winter/Ice Spiker/Snow Stud to go up next year...

    They'd have gone up this year if they'd bother to make enough of them :lol:
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  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    It was daft because you couldn't get enough this spring. The Strathpuffer folk were scouring Europe for sets.
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  • fnegroni
    fnegroni Posts: 794
    Wiggle has Ice Spikers in stock and 20% off for 24hrs

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/schwalbe-ice-sp ... -mtb-tyre/
    http://wokinghamcyclist.blogspot.com
  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    fnegroni wrote:
    Wiggle has Ice Spikers in stock and 20% off for 24hrs

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/schwalbe-ice-sp ... -mtb-tyre/

    Yup - though for whatever reason, Wiggle stuff is taking forever to get to me at the moment (Ice Spiker Pros were dispatched 10 days ago & I haven't seen them yet), Colleague in Ediburgh was saying the same.
    ROAD < Scott Foil HMX Di2, Volagi Liscio Di2, Jamis Renegade Elite Di2, Cube Reaction Race > ROUGH
  • Philcho
    Philcho Posts: 57
    fnegroni wrote:
    Wiggle has Ice Spikers in stock and 20% off for 24hrs

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/schwalbe-ice-sp ... -mtb-tyre/

    Yup unsurprisingly out of stock till mid january now :)
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  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    Well they let me down on my Ice Spiker Pros. Ordered early Nov. Were meant to have stock mid-Dec - checked early Dec and was told that's when they were still due. Just been told early Jan! Ordered them from Action Sports in Germany - saved 7 quid and they'll be here next week.
    ROAD < Scott Foil HMX Di2, Volagi Liscio Di2, Jamis Renegade Elite Di2, Cube Reaction Race > ROUGH
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    I'm not going to say I told you so, but I did.

    Not that I'm saying that of course.

    but I did.

    On Monday.

    Check if you like.

    about that thing I'm not telling I told you so about
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