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  1. Original post
    Mikael Seierup
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    First snow fell yesterday and heres what happened...

    - "I haven't heard of any snow" (The Department head of Roadservice Copenhagen.)
    - "You haven't seen that white stuff on the ground?"
    - "Ah thats slush. We've had some slush and slippery roads but nothing I'd call snow."

    In this most of the cyclists in Copenhagen plus the Meteorological Institue disagrees. When I went
    out at 11 AM there were lots of places where you had to ride slowly cause the bikepath hadn't been
    cleared and was dangerously icy. Luckily my TE-clone was up to it with its wide, knobby
    lowpressure tires.

    Its a friggin farce though. They fired two leaders and 30-40 employees after last years fiasko.
    Should have shot a few instead. ;o)

    Mikael

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  2. Markku Poysti
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    When I went out at 11 AM there were lots of places where you had to ride slowly cause the bikepath
    hadn't been cleared and was dangerously icy.

    Here in Finland some slush is not a problem, but sometimes in weekends they do not plow the snow
    from bikepaths, although there is so much that you just cannot keep the bike moving. It usually
    starts snowing on friday afternoon 🙁

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  3. GeoB
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    Rain is up-front, in-your-face bad, doing its worst in front of God and everybody. Snow too.. no
    apologies, whump! Here it is. Deal with it.

    But ice... ice is sneaky and tricky, disguised, doing its worst, quietly forming in the dark then
    hiding in shadows and low spots, under leaves, ambushing the unwary in the middle of a sunshiny day!
    Ice is bad.

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  4. Cletus Lee
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    In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:

    Rain is up-front, in-your-face bad, doing its worst in front of God and everybody. Snow too.. no
    apologies, whump! Here it is. Deal with it.

    But ice... ice is sneaky and tricky, disguised, doing its worst, quietly forming in the dark then
    hiding in shadows and low spots, under leaves, ambushing the unwary in the middle of a sunshiny
    day! Ice is bad.


    I still like it in my tea this time of year.
    --

    Cletus D. Lee Bacchetta Giro Lightning Voyager clee.orgclee.org
    - Bellaire, TX USA -

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  5. Mikael Seierup
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    "GeoB" skrev...

    Quoted message said:

    Rain is up-front, in-your-face bad, doing its worst in front of God and everybody. Snow too.. no
    apologies, whump! Here it is. Deal with it.

    Trouble with snow is that if its left to its own devices and subjected to enough bikes it turns to
    ice... bad ice. ;-) This is what happened here because the people in charge of dealing with it are
    incompetent.

    Mikael

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  6. JEGARH
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    [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mikael Seierup
    [B]First snow fell yesterday and..............

    Who is snow?

    😄

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  7. Howard
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    JEGARH <[email hidden]> wrote in news:3fdf8574_3
    @news.chariot.net.au:

    Quoted message said:


    Who is snow?

    😄

    It's like this: "Hey Daddy, it rained grits!"

    bitshift etc

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  8. <Chas>
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    "GeoB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Rain is up-front, in-your-face bad, doing its worst in front of God and everybody. Snow too.. no
    apologies, whump! Here it is. Deal with it.

    But ice... ice is sneaky and tricky, disguised, doing its worst, quietly forming in the dark then
    hiding in shadows and low spots, under leaves, ambushing the unwary in the middle of a sunshiny
    day! Ice is bad.

    Ice. Ice. What is ice? Isn't that something that comes in cubes in the freezer? We don't got no
    stinkin' ice here in Silicon Valley, 'cept in our tea.

    However it was 30F this morning at 6 when I would have left to ride to work, had I not had a Dr's
    appointment. Brrrrr. Can you say "popsicle toes?"

    <Chas> In warm, wet, Silicon Valley CA recovering from his back injury

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  9. Hillel
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    "GeoB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Rain is up-front, in-your-face bad, doing its worst in front of God and everybody. Snow too.. no
    apologies, whump! Here it is. Deal with it.

    But ice... ice is sneaky and tricky, disguised, doing its worst, quietly forming in the dark then
    hiding in shadows and low spots, under leaves, ambushing the unwary in the middle of a sunshiny
    day! Ice is bad.

    Here in NE Ohio it's easy to see the ice. Just look where there isn't snow. :-)

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  10. Dean Arthur
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    Hillel said:


    ...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    But ice... ice is sneaky and tricky, disguised, doing its worst, quietly forming in the dark
    then hiding in shadows and low spots, under leaves, ambushing the unwary in the middle of a
    sunshiny day! Ice is bad.

    Here in NE Ohio it's easy to see the ice. ...

    Especially clinking in one's glass - there, ice is GOOD!

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  11. Dean Arthur
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    Hillel said:


    "GeoB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message


    ...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    But ice... ice is sneaky and tricky, disguised, doing its worst, quietly forming in the dark
    then hiding in shadows and low spots, under leaves, ambushing the unwary in the middle of a
    sunshiny day! Ice is bad.

    Here in NE Ohio it's easy to see the ice. Just look where there isn't snow. :-)

    Here in Wyoming one only has to watch for tire tracks leading off highway into snow banks to
    recognize ice.

    Have lanyards to gates in conical plastic buckets front and rear of BikeE to dribble sand under
    tires through small tubes.

    Works GREAT so long as I don't fail to top off buckets at end of each day's ride.

    Fell once from a upwrong and that HURT!

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  12. Edward Ing
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    "Mikael Seierup" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    Trouble with snow is that if its left to its own devices and subjected to enough bikes it turns to
    ice... bad ice. ;-) This is what happened here because the people in charge of dealing with it are
    incompetent.

    Mikael

    Mikael, Get use to it Mikael. I was listening to a programme and they said because of global
    warming, the ocean currents are disrupted and the Gulf stream feeding heat to Northern Europe during
    the winter will diminish in strength. You'll have weather like we have in Canada.

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  13. Mikael Seierup
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    "Edward Ing" skrev...

    Quoted message said:

    Get use to it Mikael. I was listening to a programme and they said because of global warming, the
    ocean currents are disrupted and the Gulf stream feeding heat to Northern Europe during the winter
    will diminish in strength. You'll have weather like we have in Canada.

    Actually so far winters have been warmer. Green winters we call them. I dont mind ice and snow as
    such. I do mind that the people we pay taxes to clear roads, bikepaths and sidewalks don't do
    their job.

    Mikael

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  14. Zippy The Pinhe
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    On 21 Dec 2003 19:23:58 -0800, [email hidden] (Edward Ing)

    Quoted message said:

    Get use to it Mikael. I was listening to a programme and they said because of global warming, the
    ocean currents are disrupted and the Gulf stream feeding heat to Northern Europe during the winter
    will diminish in strength.

    Oh dear. We'll all be killed.

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  15. Mark Leuck
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    "Zippy the Pinhead" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    (Edward Ing) said:

    Get use to it Mikael. I was listening to a programme and they said because of global warming, the
    ocean currents are disrupted and the Gulf stream feeding heat to Northern Europe during the
    winter will diminish in strength.

    Oh dear. We'll all be killed.

    You could move to Africa? 🙂

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