Wet Wood.

Kieran_Burns

Is flipping slippy.

I mean SERIOUSLY slippy.

My diversion today took me over this bridge:



Really beautiful and fiendishly steep. Not one I would EVER recommend cyling over when wet. Even with the Marathon Plus tyres the back wheel was spinning when I cycled up it.

I kind of had one of those commutes today.

rjsterry

Isn't there some sort of anti-slip coating on the right hand side of that photo? Wet wood with a film of algae might as well be sheet ice. I once surveyed a house with a north facing garden, containing a couple of ponds surrounded by decking so slick with algae that I had to virtually shuffle round on my knees to avoid falling in.

desweller

Marathon Pluses are not exactly renowned for their limpet-esque roadholding, try some Marathon Winter and admire the damage you leave behind!

Kieran_Burns

DesWeller wrote:

Marathon Pluses are not exactly renowned for their limpet-esque roadholding, try some Marathon Winter and admire the damage you leave behind!

Got them! See the packaging thread

The plusses ain't half bad you know. I was a bit sideways in the worst of the wet mud but the handling was pretty predictable.

Now I just need to work out why my rear BB5 is sticking.

meanredspider

There's a very short bridge right near my work - I've learned simply to roll across it having twice come off by losing the rear wheel completely under power. I did phone the council to report my accident but they've done FA to sort it. Very very slippery.

Fireblade96

There's a little wooden bridge I cross on my commute as well, and it's slippery as feck when wet. Rear spins and you *really* don't want to brake.
No problems crossing it on the fixie though, controlling the speed with leg braking

Kieran_Burns

rjsterry wrote:

Isn't there some sort of anti-slip coating on the right hand side of that photo? Wet wood with a film of algae might as well be sheet ice. I once surveyed a house with a north facing garden, containing a couple of ponds surrounded by decking so slick with algae that I had to virtually shuffle round on my knees to avoid falling in.

I'll admit I didn't see that, but given that it was pitch black and while I did have the candle power of a small nuclear reactor strapped to the handlebars it was easy to miss when it was soaking wet.

meanredspider

Fireblade96 wrote:

controlling the speed with leg breaking

FTFY

redvee

There are a couple of small wooden bridges that I've ridden over and the only anti-slip treatment used is several layers of chicken wire on the deck.

mudcow007

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Is flipping slippy.

I mean SERIOUSLY slippy.

My diversion today took me over this bridge:



Really beautiful and fiendishly steep. Not one I would EVER recommend cyling over when wet. Even with the Marathon Plus tyres the back wheel was spinning when I cycled up it.

I kind of had one of those commutes today.

dude is that Sasquatch crossing the bridge in your photo??!

Kieran_Burns

Gawd. There WERE some very big footprints in the mud last night. I put that down to people slipping but now you mention it. :shock:

jds_1981

redvee wrote:

There are a couple of small wooden bridges that I've ridden over and the only anti-slip treatment used is several layers of chicken wire on the deck.

One of the better methods - it's how they cover the wood in northshore trails.

Initialised

Hagg Bridge at Wylam can be bad, a couple of years back me and mini INI mk1 both lost it there on a ride out to Hexham. You could give them a coat of chicken wire like some MTB north shore sections.

YIMan

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Is flipping slippy.

I mean SERIOUSLY slippy.

My diversion today took me over this bridge:



Really beautiful and fiendishly steep. Not one I would EVER recommend cyling over when wet. Even with the Marathon Plus tyres the back wheel was spinning when I cycled up it.

I kind of had one of those commutes today.

I know exactly where that is....isn't it kind of surfaced on one side?