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Walked off the estate, mostly because it's steep (for snowy conditions). Sheet ice on all but the most main of roads but not too shiny. Mostly the slush from last night has frozen to a rough crust. Temperature around -6 with windchill to -10. Traffic was 1/4 usual and mostly slow moving.
Wearing, cotton T, LS baselayer, LS fleece, Waterproof, cycling shorts, fleecey leggings, thick socks and shoe covers, helmet liner. Top was OK but legs and feet a little cold. I have cleats though, which are a bit of cold bridge.
As hippy says, don't lean over too much. Alas, I have to concede that I was on my gf's geared MTB with wide knobblies. Mostly because I switched to the cross tires this morning and just before I absolutely had to leave the valve at the back quit on me. Valves need to HTFU. Gears a bit slow to wake up and I reckon I would have been OK on the roads except for about 100m out of 7 miles.
That's the report from Swindon where I took the right decision not to head through the park today as the view from the road later revealed several 4ft high snowballs along the bike path.
In good news, temperatures don't look to be getting above sub-zero today. This means that ice is less likely to melt and refreeze meaning you shouldn't have to deal with too much shiny crust this evening.