Did anyone brave it today?

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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    you should all come to live in cornwall... cloudy day, a little cold and windy but otherwise dry on the roads and just getting ready to go out. was the same yesterday!
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    heh heh. Funny, I did see that Plymouth has a forecast of 6 deg today and was briefly tempted to drive there!

    I remember late January last year I got so stir crazy one week that I worked out that Aberyswith was the only place close that had a balmy temp of 3 deg so I got in the car and drove there with the bike in the back. Managed a great 4 or 5 hours of cycling once there and loved it. Not sure about the long drive there and back though :)
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    Nothing brave about risking broken bones and the season for one day, as countless other "did you brave it" threads have made clear.
    Just daft to be honest.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    Also not only do you risk injury, or worse, bike damage, but you also make vehicles move off the tyre tracks and cross the slush/ice to get past you. This can then cause 'interesting' moments for the vehicles and cause accidents.

    When it is snowy and icy just stay in. It is not wimping out, it is being sensible and safe.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Today I was out again. Beautiful sunshine, clear blue skies, and 1000mph side winds!!!! Lost count of the amount of times I really thought the wind was going to take my front wheel from under me. Not the best weather for deep section rims TBH. Think I need to stick my old 24mm Mavic Aksiums back on as I don't think Bianchi's make good kites.
  • peat
    peat Posts: 1,242
    I drove to Box Hill to escape the Oxfordshire snow for the slightly (only slightly) less abundant Surrey snow.

    Did a 40 mile loop taking in Leith Hill, Pitch Hill and a particularly vicious one called 'Whitedown' (which was very, very white. Lovely.

    My first time riding down that way, glad i manned up and got out.
  • prhymeate
    prhymeate Posts: 795
    Anyone been to Richmond Park today? I'm about 5 miles away and the road looks like it's almost starting to dry...
  • cyberknight
    cyberknight Posts: 1,238
    Bozman wrote:
    I'll take my hat off to anybody who tried to go for a ride in Derbyshire today.
    Not a chance for me, spent an hour and a half clearing the drive to the road which is a bus route and that was downto a single lane.Rang my mother to check on her and she said a snow plough had been down the lane.
    FCN 3/5/9
  • gubber12345
    gubber12345 Posts: 493
    Toe knee wrote:
    Hey grill, do you get up extra early to practice been a top knob, or does it come natural ?
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: feck that made me laugh toe knee
    Lapierre Aircode 300
    Merida
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    gubber12345 wrote:
    Toe knee wrote:
    Hey grill, do you get up extra early to practice been a top knob, or does it come natural ?
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: feck that made me laugh toe knee

    217km, man thats childs play, im doing a 10,500km A380 tonight !! :mrgreen:
    In fact, im so damn good im gonna do it in my sleep !!!!!!
    Living MY dream.
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    VTech wrote:
    gubber12345 wrote:
    Toe knee wrote:
    Hey grill, do you get up extra early to practice been a top knob, or does it come natural ?
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: feck that made me laugh toe knee

    217km, man thats childs play, im doing a 10,500km A380 tonight !! :mrgreen:
    In fact, im so damn good im gonna do it in my sleep !!!!!!

    I pray to God that you are NOT a pilot!!!!!
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Maybe a trolley Dolly!!
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    You really wouldnt want me to be your eye candy on a trans atlantic !
    You do know however that 30 minutes after take off the pilots are most likely asleep though !
    Living MY dream.
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    I've flown with the RAF, Half of them are asleep when they land!
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    33 miles this morning in gale force winds and hail/snow. We were doing 30 mph+ on the outleg with the wind behind us, but on the back leg we hit an all time low of 9 mph. At one point I must have been cycling at a 20 deg angle :shock:
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    33 miles this morning in gale force winds and hail/snow. We were doing 30 mph+ on the outleg with the wind behind us, but on the back leg we hit an all time low of 9 mph. At one point I must have been cycling at a 20 deg angle :shock:

    Again, on a serious note, fair play to those who braved the sub zero temps, it shows commitment and my joke earlier at Grill was in jest as he can clearly do the distances which is something special, I doubt ill ever cover such ground on a bike myself.
    Living MY dream.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    30+ here. Out into the wind and mainly uphill and back wind behind and down ... Lovely!

    Having said that, we really have had the best of it down here
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,359
    i went out this morning, decided it might be icy further out so just did some hard laps around regent's park to blow away the cobwebs

    it was snowing but not settling, quite wet roads, no ice, the rear shifting kept going awry, but going down/up cleared it so i didn't bother stopping

    when i got home i found the bare cables under the downtube sheathed in ice about 6-7mm diameter, lots of ice on the seat tube

    at the rear of the bike, seatstays, brakes, spokes, were all sleeved in ice, and the rd itself was almost encased in ice

    at least cleaning was easy, hosed it down until the ice came off, took all the road gunk with it, shiny once more :-)
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • Raffles
    Raffles Posts: 1,137
    Toe knee wrote:
    Hey grill, do you get up extra early to practice been a top knob, or does it come natural ?


    dude, where snooker came naturally to ronnie o sullivan and driving f1 cars comes to seb vettel ...........being a total and utter unlikeable cnut comes just as naturally to grill and shut up legs as its possible to imagine and ill wager that those 950 miles for Grill were all done all by himself with nobody to validate them or nobody who could bear cycling with him :roll:
    2012 Cannondale CAAD 8 105
  • sgtzara
    sgtzara Posts: 4
    Did 90mins on the Cross Trainer in the garage then went out to the Leisure Centre and baked in the sauna for 20mins or so.

    Wife was working all weekend so would have been nice to get out for a blip and put a few more miles on my Merida Ride 93. Surely this means we're gonna have a belter of a summer .... or not.
  • clickrumble
    clickrumble Posts: 304
    32 miles, no snow or ice here thankfully, but pretty damned cold.

    http://www.strava.com/activities/45636521
  • roypsb
    roypsb Posts: 309
    30 miles this morning in very cold and windy conditions, very light snow at times.

    Found it bloody hard. Just not getting enough miles in at the moment so struggling to get fitness back to where it was in October/November.

    Hope weather is gonna change soon. Got the week after Easter off and will be looking to get out every other day (in between jobs around the house!).
  • littleprawn
    littleprawn Posts: 135
    Just over 10 miles this afternoon ....freezing cold but slowly getting back my fitness after a month off due to flu and bronchitis.

    Very windy out there but roads are in good condition and no snow
    Cannondale CAADX 5 105
    Trek T10
  • Raffles
    Raffles Posts: 1,137
    Ive received my dhb m1.0 spd shoes after selling the r1.0 spd-sl shoes which were mightily not for me at all, today I asked my wife to drop a plumbob so as I could check the kops with me sitting on the bike. It was so windy the weight on the string was blowing around like it was a feather................I didnt brave it today !!!! :lol:
    2012 Cannondale CAAD 8 105
  • xchudy_1325
    xchudy_1325 Posts: 85
    i went out today only 8.5miles, roads where surprisingly dry, i even hit a PB on a strava segment currently tied 4th, only 4 seconds off the top spot lol,
    Strava - http://app.strava.com/athletes/1844323
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    Prhymeate wrote:
    Anyone been to Richmond Park today? I'm about 5 miles away and the road looks like it's almost starting to dry...
    Yes I went out briefly at about 3. Roads were mostly dry with no ice between Twickenham and Richmond, and the park was fairly quiet.

    However, despite meditating on rule 5, I felt very wimpy and weak, and then discovered that it wasn't snot dripping out of my nose, it was blood (never had a nosebleed start during exercise before, I put it down to the freezing air). So I had to stop to get it stopped, by which time there was blood all over my glove, my top tube, my bottle cages, and my face. No one stopped or asked if I was Ok :lol:

    Then by the time I got up Broomfield Hill, I felt unusually knackered, so I bottled and came home. Bit of a strange one, really, I hope I'm not coming down with my OH's cold...
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • marcusjb
    marcusjb Posts: 2,412
    I went out to Richmond park this morning. Weather looked pretty ok down in Chiswick, and when I started my first lap it was pretty okay (wind was quite strong, but no snow). But half way around the first lap, the snow started. Horrible sideways snow that felt like putting my head into a bucket of needles. Rule 5 was also invoked. Until half way around lap 2, by which time my mental resolve was broken! Just short of 30km by the time I was home.

    That cup of tea when I got home was about as good as it gets!
    Stuff about riding a bike a long way
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    xchudy_1325 wrote:
    I went out today only 8.5miles... I even hit a PB on a strava segment, currently tied 4th

    Strava bagging at its finest :)
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    xchudy_1325 wrote:
    I went out today only 8.5miles... I even hit a PB on a strava segment, currently tied 4th

    Strava bagging at its finest :)

    Hardly. Anyone can ride fast when the distance is so short. And a PB is set every time you do a segment for the first time :wink:

    Although I would not recommend doing so, given that at such a low distance you are barely warmed up.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    smidsy wrote:
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    xchudy_1325 wrote:
    I went out today only 8.5miles... I even hit a PB on a strava segment, currently tied 4th

    Strava bagging at its finest :)

    Hardly. Anyone can ride fast when the distance is so short.

    That was my point, I forgot to add the ironic tone though :)

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