Winter Biking!

I fitted snow tyres to my bike yesterday as I'm bore of the vagueries of city ploughing dictating whether I can ride to work or not. I also took off the eggbeaters and put on regular pedals. It's now accumulated about an inch over the course of the afternoon so I feel vindicated by this decision.

yo ed can put some pics of these tyres?

http://bicyclewarehouse.com/merchant/328/images/large/tire_scwalbe_snow_studs.gif

I'll do a WDYBLL tomorrow when its light. The studs are probably overkill but they were on sale and plain knobby schwalbes weren't.

http://static2.biketiresdirect.com/imagesProduct/scsno1-1.jpg

~swoon~

we've been getting hammered with snow, so it's sorels and the mtb lately. it's a slow pig but I am INVINCIBLE

I have only one bike, but my hall cupboard is now full of tyres for every occasion.

Horrible sleet in the air and slush on the ground. Glad I brought a change of clothes and down slipper into work.

I really need to get some waterproof trousers, the jeans and wellingtons combo only works so well.

I had the least pleasant commute of my life tonight. I'd decided that +5 degrees C this morning meant I could wear my lighter winter gloves and no buff/skullcap. I also haven't had my front guard fixed so heavy rain/standing water goes all over my shoes. It started raining on the way in, but there was a decent tailwind and it was pretty mild.

This evening, the rain had picked up, the temperature had fallen, the wind was now 10mph in my face, and traffic was appalling. I had to keep slowing down because wet freezing bald head was giving me one hell of an ice cream-style headache, but I couldn't slow too much otherwise the rest of me would freeze. Not that I had much option, with filthy traffic - I saw a car hit a van and a bus hit another bus (they make a hell of a noise when they scrape up each other's side), and for some reason tonight was the night the usually considerate motorcycling community went mental. Other cyclists were there usual idiotic selves - though peds kept out of my way for a change, apart from the woman how stuck her hand straight out into the road as I was passing by (one hundreth of a second later and she'd have punched me hard in the side of the head).

Anyway, I was so relieved to get home I didn't care that everything was saturated, that I couldn't feel my hands and feet. I wasn't riding any more.

you poor little shit, how's that for fat tuesday?

that is the worst weather imo
when it's around freezing but raining.

http://video.wttw.com/video/1414545458/

is maybe over for this year

SHUT UP

yr gonna ruin it

yea it will be *my fault*
fuckin superstitionismz

oh brother, riding last night perchance on some railroad tracks and whoopsidaisy i went over and totally fucked up my back wheel. mad frustration

Hey UK riders, bargain!

http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/ZXCLPXMERLS/planet-x-and-on-one-100-percent-merino-wool-ls-top-bundle?utm_source=Planet+X+and+On+One&utm_campaign=d79d803aea-21st_December_Block_Version12_21_2010&utm_medium=email

fugly!

zim zam

biked to work in shorts and t-shirt this morning ( via london 13 degrees) this is like summer.

it ain't pitch black at 8am in the summer iirc

-11ºF wind chill

let's do this

Bugger me, it was cold coming into work this morning.