This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Going against the thread name but is anyone taking a view on tomorrows commute, it's forecast wet all day and sub-zero through the night. What ice skates are people using tomorrow?

I have been considering the relative merits of this issue. Might be a train day :(

Freezing rain > Public transport but did get a bit wet.
Only a hard-core few out today.
Changing room at work fairly empty.
Not sure about tomorrow though. Supposed to be - 3deg at 6pm. Depends how much ice there is for me. Might have to walk my bike to the nearest gritted road. Don't mind snow or rain but hate the dreaded ice

Beeb weather warnings updated..

Ice is expected to form on some surfaces from late Monday afternoon and last overnight into >Tuesday morning. There will probably be icy stretches on untreated roads, pavements and cycle >paths with some injuries possible from slips and falls.

Tempted to get the schwalbe marathon winters on the steamroller just in case. 22 miles is a fair whack to ride on them in a day though.

Schwalbe studded tyres FTW if you must cycle on frozen over snow/ice. I've used them in The Big Snow in NI (5 years ago I think?) and while you still feel the wheels move a bit, you won't fall.

They weight a KG a piece for a 26" tyre size though. Winter training with a vengeance :)

My view is, tomorrow morning, if there is any ice in the garden, I won't cycle.

Not that I cycle through gardens on my commute but I'd rather not risk injury/death/f*cked up bike due to ice.

I've got to get a train from Kingston to Hastings tomorrow morning. Whats the betting frozen tracks fucks the whole thing up?

On my commute, Great Northern have been using the "slippery rails" excuse since the start of November, so definitely!

They've got a load of snow today in Hastings and the buses are packing up early. I'd give odds on that the trains are bollixed.

Great. The mega gamble would be to stay in bed and pretend to be having a nightmare via text alone, while never actually making the effort to begin the journey....

My missus has taken over the 'riding in shit weather is great' from me. My train alternative is too easy at this office so I'd take the train, ride the turbo and not have to clean my bike. Also get to read a book so it's pretty win... until the trains stop I guess.

Brutal head-/side-/everywhere-wind this morning, and two punctures - fingers too cold to fix the second one so I walked the remaining 1.5 miles to work. Still better than public transport.

Before you skive off work on my say so I should warn you I'm currently bunkered up in N7.

I have to leave a bike at work because I'm doing a team thing tonight. So I'm going home to get my other bike sorted to ride in tomorrow. Id rather die than catch the misery sewer.

Pulled up for a red light outside Stockwell beside 2 also-bedraggled single-speeders (on here?) this morning. We all turn to look at the queue 20 people deep trying to get into the station, share a solidarity nod, and agree that cycling was still better.

Made less good that I forgot my trousers and am currently in lost and found trousers ...

Left bike at the office on Friday so got the X68 in. Traffic was horrendous but had downloaded a couple of episodes of Peaky Blinders so wasn't all bad. Looking at the weather now, I might train home before the rush hour, finish my work this evening and since there'll be no one else in tomorrow, WFH then too.

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Where do you work that there are lost and found trousers?

Primary school.

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Office cycling changing facilities often have someones odd trowser like stuff hanging around.
I once spent the day in a pair of Ron Hill Tracksters.