Cycling in the snow - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

02-27-2005, 12:24 PM

Glorious sunshine here in deepest rural Norfolk this morning, even though it
is cold, so Vernon & I got warmly dressed & went out on our bikes. Within
five minutes we found the only section of road in Norfolk that still has a
couple of inches of ice still covering it. That was interesting - I rode it
with a foot unclipped just in case bike & I needed to part company quickly
;-) Got past our very own little bit of ice sheet and then it started to
snow. At first it was only a few flakes coming out of a sky that was still
bright blue with nice fluffy white clouds in it, so we carried on. The next
minute, the temperature drops by several degrees, the wind gets up and the
snow comes down quite heavily. Actually it was blowing horizontally verging
between a headwind and a crosswind. I am glad I wore my buff as by pulling
it up over my nose & cheeks, I avoided snow in the lungs :-) It made for an
interesting ride - it was actually quite good fun - it gave me a workout as
I had to pedal hard in the headwind. Glad I
went out though.

Cheers, helen s

02-27-2005, 01:33 PM

> The next minute, the temperature
> drops by several degrees, the wind gets up and the snow comes down
> quite heavily. Actually it was blowing horizontally verging between a
> headwind and a crosswind.

Nice

Here is my part of winter story

. In Poland recently winter is very snowy
and even on primary roads it's hard to find pice of dry asphalt. Salt is
working and roads are wet but air temp is about -5*C/ 23F, so everything
freeze over in a minute

. You can see results of ~3h ride in this
conditions

:
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sorry for non English subtitles but they aren't important

Enjoy winter rides! :-)

--
regards
Mike
[PL][WRO][M.T.Fuji+ OCR1 ]
[GG:1303401] mikemtb malpa o2 pl
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02-27-2005, 01:33 PM

> The next minute, the temperature
> drops by several degrees, the wind gets up and the snow comes down
> quite heavily. Actually it was blowing horizontally verging between a
> headwind and a crosswind.

Nice

Here is my part of winter story

. In Poland recently winter is very snowy
and even on primary roads it's hard to find pice of dry asphalt. Salt is
working and roads are wet but air temp is about -5*C/ 23F, so everything
freeze over in a minute

. You can see results of ~3h ride in this
conditions

:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
sorry for non English subtitles but they aren't important

Enjoy winter rides! :-)

--
regards
Mike
[PL][WRO][M.T.Fuji+ OCR1 ]
[GG:1303401] mikemtb malpa o2 pl
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

02-27-2005, 01:52 PM

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:33:21 +0100, Mike wrote:

>> The next minute, the temperature
>> drops by several degrees, the wind gets up and the snow comes down
>> quite heavily.

Riding while it's snowing is usually quite pleasant, especially if it's
not too heavy and there isn't any wind.

> Here is my part of winter story

. In Poland recently winter is very
> snowy and even on primary roads it's hard to find pice of dry asphalt.
> Salt is working and roads are wet but air temp is about -5*C/ 23F, so
> everything freeze over in a minute

. You can see results of ~3h ride
> in this conditions

:

Riding on snow-and-ice-covered streets is not so much fun. I'm impressed
you could stay up on that road bike for 3 hours. It is much easier on a
mountain bike with fenders and studded tires.

--

David L. Johnson

__o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front
_`\(,_ | of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of
(_)/ (_) | them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The
internet has proven this not to be the case.

02-27-2005, 01:52 PM

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:33:21 +0100, Mike wrote:

>> The next minute, the temperature
>> drops by several degrees, the wind gets up and the snow comes down
>> quite heavily.

Riding while it's snowing is usually quite pleasant, especially if it's
not too heavy and there isn't any wind.

> Here is my part of winter story

. In Poland recently winter is very
> snowy and even on primary roads it's hard to find pice of dry asphalt.
> Salt is working and roads are wet but air temp is about -5*C/ 23F, so
> everything freeze over in a minute

. You can see results of ~3h ride
> in this conditions

:

Riding on snow-and-ice-covered streets is not so much fun. I'm impressed
you could stay up on that road bike for 3 hours. It is much easier on a
mountain bike with fenders and studded tires.

--

David L. Johnson

__o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front
_`\(,_ | of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of
(_)/ (_) | them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The
internet has proven this not to be the case.