Stuck in the house due to the large amount of snow outside. Decided to cycle down to the post office regardless and then round the local football pitch a few times.
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
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For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
It's great fun, isn't it? Last year we had just a couple of inches, but on 1/5 hills that's interesting, particularly on Schwalbe Marathons. I was slowly overtaken on an uphill by an earnest-looking chap in a Skoda who was decently keeping well clear of me, to the extent he was completely on the other side of the road for about fifty yards either side of me, bless. Downhill, I was proceeding at about the same as the uphill speed when someone came screaming past me on a mountain bike with a deranged grin on his face. 8-)
Stuck in the house due to the large amount of snow outside. Decided to cycle down to the post office regardless and then round the local football pitch a few times.
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
I desperately want to have a go at this but although snow has been forcasted, it looks like we are going to miss out (North Lincolnshire).
Stuck in the house due to the large amount of snow outside. Decided to cycle down to the post office regardless and then round the local football pitch a few times.
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
Hmm... in my limited experience, it's great to ride on when it's freshly fallen, soft, fluffy and pretty.
It's a mare to ride on when it's become slush and then frozen into ridges, lumps and dips - then polished to a high sheen by the traffic.
Stuck in the house due to the large amount of snow outside. Decided to cycle down to the post office regardless and then round the local football pitch a few times.
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
Stuck in the house due to the large amount of snow outside. Decided to cycle down to the post office regardless and then round the local football pitch a few times.
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
I used to live in Liskeard in Cornwall, and one winter there was massive snowfall - maybe 20 years ago. It was great fun cycling on Bodmin Moor in god knows how much snow, and knocking down the drifts hanging over the lanes like half an arch. Bl**dy hard work though!
Was that from the Hay side? Where did the ride go after that? We spent a weekend in Hay last November and rode out over the Gospel Pass, had lunch at Llanthony Priory and rode back via the Golden Valley.
Lovely. Nice pix too. Must have been a challenging ride on the narrow tyres of the bike in 037.
Ride? it appeared to me that everyone was using the bikes as an aid to pedestrianisation. Mind you I can't talk, I would have probably done the same given those conditions.
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Stuck in the house due to the large amount of snow outside. Decided to cycle down to the post office regardless and then round the local football pitch a few times.
For those of you who've never tried to cycle in 3-6" of snow it's a howl (or I'm a bit mentally deranged, either is possible). Just what chunky tyres and granny gears were invented for, but incredibly tiring after just a mile or two. Got a few odd looks :-)
That looks wonderfully mad. 032 is a superb photo.
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