Winter bike / Snow bike thread

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not much snow in Birmingham today.

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Anybody have any tips on avoiding the loose snow that grips on the rear tyre and tries to fill your shoes from behind? My mudguard carefull funnels it round - would a clip on help it get thrown off before it get to the 'down' part?
I'll try to get a photo of mine when I go out tomorrow if I remember - it is about -18 now so I will probably be in a rush to get going.

Its bound to be a repost - DIY zip tie snow wheels:

http://www.dutchbikeco.com/_blog/Dutch_Bike_Co_Weblog/post/Seattle_Snowpocalypse/

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not much snow in Birmingham today.

I love love love that rig, nelson. Good work.

I hope to build something like soon.

Picture shows my winter hack - Moulton APB running a 68" gear on Schwalbe Marathon Winter spiked tyres.

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My DMR

Picture shows my winter hack - Moulton APB running a 68" gear on Schwalbe Marathon Winter spiked tyres.

Winter Hack? Furking Hell...

Picture shows my winter hack - Moulton APB running a 68" gear on Schwalbe Marathon Winter spiked tyres.

Are the small wheels not skittish in the snow? I realise you have spiked tyres, but still...

Nice bike though.

wish that was my winter hack! (and yes - hipflash/thermosflask combo)

This morning - damn phone won't expose properly for snow.
Nice ride to work, about -10c but really nice compacted snow on all but 100 metres of the trip.

Are the small wheels not skittish in the snow? I realise you have spiked tyres, but still...

Smaller wheels are always more skittish - even in the summer you need to take care not to pull quick manoeuvres while your front wheel is on drain covers etc. But I imagine that riding on snow would be a bigger factor in how skittish it feels compared to other bikes than the wheel size would be. I'm so used to it now that I'm even finding that it feels a bit like a sit-up-and-beg compared to the AM2 I've been riding around all summer, which has 17" wheels.

Made a couple of changes in regards to winter/snow riding. First off I invested in some continental 4 seasons and then some gloves and a scarf, that is all! It seemed to work alright this morning on the way to work in 2" of snow. I wasnt going at my usual pace and took it easy on the bends, took twice as long as normal but I was getting around find albeit at a slower pace.

My bike

My drive

Good times :)

Good work....where is that?

A little village called West Chiltington about 35/40 miles south of London, not far from Horsham and Dorking. It was really liberating, had loads of people telling me I'm stupid trying to ride about but I was one of the few to actually get about this morning which is liberating!

Unless they've moved it a long way from Pulborough, it's a bloody long way from Dorking!

My great aunt lives there.

It does nearly neighbour Pulborough, but Dorking and horsham are the closest towns or chichester. All are about 15/20 mins away, I assumed most people were from inside London, no one knows where West Chilt is usually :).

I'd have gone for Crawley/Gatwick - nearer than Dorking? But you forget that, for reasons unknown to any mortal, North Horsham gets its own mention on Googlemaps now....

dorking is nearer than Crawley/Gatwick, the routes I use anyway.

dorking is nearer than Crawley/Gatwick, the routes I use anyway.

You're putting the miles in. Dorking is almost twice as far as Crawley!

I think I spoke too soon, just came over the crest of a hill in the dark and the whole road was black ice! Safe to say I went down, pretty hard! Luckily no one was around to see haha. Take care on the roads people!

Snow I can do, but the ice today was just bit much.
Surprisingly the icy cycling lane finished when I crossed the Lea Valley towards Clapton.

ps. skidding in the fresh snow which is covering icy road is lush!

Yay for Clapton!

(It looks as if it'll ice over here, too, overnight. Riding in the falling snow just now was fun, though.)

i will last maybe a mile tomorrow. let's see.

Absolutely love that bike dude.