Snow!

upright or not this is not rideable, definitely odds-on for falling over and breaking yourself or the bike or both..

Bollocks.. once you get moving just don't lean..

might make for good roller training

Or ride this and feel free to corner like Valentino Rossi...

Bollocks.. once you get moving just don't lean..

you test it, i watch (film), then i laugh when i see you stack it. then i post the video.

I ride it. Then you cry witnessing success. Then you try it. Then I laugh when you stack it. Video posting optional.

Just remember, don't lean..

"Cyclists: stay upright, don't lean!"

Believe me i'm not riding it. And i don't believe anyone else should either for their own safety.. oh what ! just heard the gritter go past! success! I win :)

If you're riding purely on snow and ice with no added salt or grit, is your bike going to be fine afterwards? It's basically just like riding in rain then, apart from it's a bit cleaner as there's less dirt getting picked up with the snow (in my area anyway).

answered your own question mate haha!

ladies and gents, do not forget to wash your bikes and overshoes, w/p trousers and etc. with warm water before going to bed as it will diminish the impact of the salt on steel, alloy, paintwork, anodising, gore tex, neoprene and etc.....!!!! :{)

No no no! COLD water. Warm water will dissolve the salt and make it harder to get out of the harder to reach places. (Thanks Owen)

But is riding in the rain fine? It must be? I guess I have answered it, but no harm in a second opinion :p

[QUOTE] Originally Posted by BBC
*The number 302 double-decker bus skidded off the road in icy conditions and crashed into the Chamberlayne Road Surgery in Kensal Rise at 1640 GMT.

*

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Oof, for a moment I thought it said 'Chamberlayne Cycles' and I thought of how Owen might have been victimised by the snowin'.

You have to give it to the bus driver, though, he did manage to keep it vertical.

ladies and gents, do not forget to wash your bikes and overshoes, w/p trousers and etc. with warm water before going to bed as it will diminish the impact of the salt on steel, alloy, paintwork, anodising, gore tex, neoprene and etc.....!!!! :{)

This thread is a magnet for good advice.

Get with the program.

Or, indeed, with the programme. ;)

So I lean hard into every turn and I won't fall over, got it!
Cheers for the advice guys

No, no, no. You just have to keep the bike as far off the vertical as you can manage, and then you won't crash into any doctors' surgeries.

My fingers work on their own. It is an excuse which has got me out of many lapses in judgement. My wife also spilt cola over my laptop and keys have gone weird.

You mean your wife works in the same building in Canary Wharf as you?

People who flounce, Henry, should either piss or get off the pot. No one wanted you to go in the first place so it's not like we wouldn't be glad to see you back here. Why bother with the alias? If you dislike the forum, or yourself on the forum, enough to leave then fine, leave. But you can't have it both ways. And you are not the only one to whom this applies. Stop being silly and ditch sopaRiva which is, anyway, not much of a name.

Will here ably demonstrates the imperviousness of the seasoned forumenger to flouncing, with all the necessary cruelty that this implies, e.g. of giving the flouncers' real name away. Flouncing has had its day; let's face it, it's a bit like the forum equivalent of failing to keep perfectly vertical when out on the bike.

No no no! COLD water. Warm water will dissolve the salt and make it harder to get out of the harder to reach places. (Thanks Owen)

mate, you haven't got sufficient knowledge about grit salt on the road as you are british :{)
i'm from a cold country where gritted roads are everyday's (late autumn, winter and early spring) cruel reality... i'm not suggesting that you should jetwash it with boiling water - pour gently so the salt disolves before it reaches crucial ares:) repeat it twice or three times

and don't try and tell me you have an A from chemistry :{)

PS: anyway, how are you doing mate? going to w drinks tonight?:{)

This thread is a magnet for good advice.

should reinvent my self with new alias 9ranny :{) ...

in years to come....

YouTube- Jim Carrey Ice Ice Baby

carefulllll ladies and gents in the morning rush to work

Saw quite a few cyclists out there @ 6:15, all on mountain bikes - I'd forgotten being in an air conditioned car with seat warmer on is quite pleasant in -4.0..... note to self htfu

My road is shiny solid ice, there's still cars driving on it... but the view from my window suggests that 5mph is too fast as I watch them slide gracefully into the same kerb every few minutes.

The bus lanes were already treacherous on the main roads at 7pm last night, they can only be ice now.

I wonder at what point HTFU becomes blind stupidity and dangerous advice. Today it might be possible to ride if you can get to a main road and stay on it and don't foresee any problem with vehicles giving you enough space (bear in mind that whilst you might be able to control your bike they might not be able to control their car/van).

I'm 50/50 on whether to cycle... the cold isn't an issue, but from where I'm looking and what I see outside cycling would appear to be a dangerous choice today. Walking and then train might also be hella dangerous, but there's less walking involved so it should be OK. Who knows... I'll assess it in 10 minutes.

^thanks Vel; I am trying to decide if I should go to work or not. Five layers of clothes, one cup of tea, forum snow check.

Precisely... come on people... what's the conditions where you are. Collective knowledge of the state of affairs is precisely what the forum should be good at.