Icy roads...

Tomorrow morning will be very dicey. The weather centre predict a rapid over-night freeze, followed be precipitation (rain, sleet, or slight snow) in the early hours. The roads will have black-ice in patches..

I much perfer to call them racist ice.

donno about ya'll londoners, but we got little snow here in cambridge already

skids in the morning :) SHAAAWWEEEEEEEET!
for those of you who ride brakeless, brake with your feet, rear wheel wont stop ya bike feck all

We have a thin layer, it will just be slush soon.

Skidtastic stuff though, even for lil' 'ol me who isn't good at skidding.

snow on the ground + 23 tyres = Bus to work. :(

effortless skid FTW!

forms why do you need to take the bus when there's only snow on the ground? in New Year I seen someone riding a brakeless Bianchi Pista Concept with skinny tyres in heavy snow once!

snow on the ground + 23 tyres = Bus to work. :(

Wide tyres do not grip anymore on snow and ice than narrow ones.

The roads are clear very quickly anyhow from all the traffic. A few years ago there was some serious snow fall in London but all but the back roads were clear at 07:00.

especially when it melted and you get covered in black road dirt.

I stacked my friend's road bike last week breaking his £130 carbon handlebars. I'm not in his good books.

Apart from a stint of 'Riding Miss Daisy' round the back roads this morning it was fine once I got to the main road. However I forgot waterproof troosers today, I don't know why I didnt equate snow with wet. FAIL.

So glad that I bothered to put the race blades on this morning. The threat of rain became actual snow about 5 minutes after leaving the house.

Boy do I feel virtuous doing the first commute of the year in snow.

snow on the ground + 23 tyres = Bus to work. :(

I made sure my Conti GP4 were pumped to just over max recommended psi, and off |I went. Of course the cold ground causes the air in the tyre to shrink and reduces tyre pressure. So my ride in was fine.

Oh, they're 700x23.

my poor father just arrived to work and both of his tyres exploded!!

trust him to put it in the warm staff room of the hospital with tyres pushing 130psi.

is he alright though?

the tyres exploded, not a V2, it just shook the whole of St Thomas hospital.

@ed - you do make me chuckle

the tyres exploded, not a V2, it just shook the whole of St Thomas hospital.

lucky no one had a heart attack ;)

The Cardiac Ward is now the Morgue.

im about to go out and for some reason my rear wheel is not fully pumped up id say it was around 80-100 psi, im a light fucker but it wont pump up more, does that matter?

im about to go out and for some reason my rear wheel is not fully pumped up id say it was around 80-100 psi, im a light fucker but it wont pump up more, does that matter?

some track pump barely can push out more than that, plus the cold temperature can reduce air pressure.

That fine, you don't need over 100 psi unless your hefty. 80 is fine if you're light, there just seems to be an obsession on here for ultra high psi.

@nosferatu

If you're really light, your bike won't even notice you on it.

My bike swears when I get on. It says 'ucking 'ell!

some track pump barely can push out more than that, plus the cold temperature can reduce air pressure.

yea im not sure why it is though, i think its because i got hplus sons and the valve on inner tubes barely come through on them so i use a valve extender but for some reason after a certain amount of pressure it dont rise :S

Tommy, would you recommend I try 80psi?

Thats like riding on the rim isn't it?

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yea im not sure why it is though, i think its because i got hplus sons and the valve on inner tubes barely come through on them so i use a valve extender but for some reason after a certain amount of pressure it dont rise :S

oh I have the same thing, it take a bit of fiddling to make it go up to 120psi, you just have to keep trying.

Ha! I'll let you just fall into the hefty category.;) >100psi