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@TheCatMan
Ahhh, the make-believe world of perfectly level, straight and unobstructed roads. Unfortunately most of the ones I use are beset with junctions, cambers, potholes, roundabouts, bends (I know, IMAGINE THAT!!), other roads users, other road users using said road badly, blah blah blah.
If you haven't come off on ice this year it is because:
a) you were riding on 2 1/2 inch knobblies
b) it wasn't real ice (frosty bits don't count I'm afraid)
c) it wasn't a big patch of ice and you got traction back as soon as you lost it
d) you got lucky
e) you realised that minus 7 degrees overnight might lead to ice and avoided untreated surfaces or just got the bus
f) you ride a trike with a basket on the front
Most people get in under (d) and (e) I reckon.