http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Blustery Winter Showers en Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:21:54 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-110544 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:16:16 +0000 chdot 110544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Still looks promising -</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8738759359/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7289/8738759359_9089faac9d.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8738759359/">PoP Sunday</a> </p> <p><a href="http://m.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/long.html" rel="nofollow">http://m.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/long.html</a></p> <p>Not that I trust weather forecasts anymore... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-110543 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:10:43 +0000 sallyhinch 110543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It will not be like that on Sunday. It will not. It will NOT.</p> <p>Repeat until true... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-110528 Tue, 14 May 2013 22:00:20 +0000 SRD 110528@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone else get caught in the hail? I thought I'd avoided it, but put rain trews on because I thought bike would be wet. thank goodness i did. hail attacked as I went down MMW. waterproofs dripping, hailstones bouncing around, driven by the wind. unbelievably painful on the face. Thought someone was behind me ringing their bell to get by. turned out it was my bell pinging in the hail.</p> <p>then a lull, and another squall as I went up leamington walk. The sides of the path were actually white. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99194 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:30:00 +0000 gembo 99194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wind died down on my second return from work at 9pm </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99191 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:13:07 +0000 Smudge 99191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>TBH if I had the choice I'd take the car tonight, but it's not available so compulsory exercise it is for me! Still, using the train it's only six miles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99190 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:10:58 +0000 DaveC 99190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I finished at 10 to 7 so got the 7pm bus instead. Didn't fancy a headwind to Inverkeithing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99186 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:44:38 +0000 Smudge 99186@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>+5 Deg and getting windier :-/ and I have to go back into work later tonight :-( Not impressed!<br /> I can ony hope we get monstrous quantities of snow tomorrow to raise my mood (though I doubt it!)</p> <p>Enjoyed this morning though :-)</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48806000@N02/8448917188/" title="Top of the track by Cyclingdriver, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8448917188_67635bb0db.jpg" alt="Top of the track" /></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99182 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:31:17 +0000 Uberuce 99182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>AM: Legwarmers, shoecovers, light sweater under windproof; fall off bike on snow and ice despite what I thought was riding gingerly.</p> <p>PM: T-shirt, shorts, powered home like a bawss. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99177 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:24:41 +0000 DaveC 99177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great I'll take the bike home then!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99176 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:47:12 +0000 amir 99176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep - it's now over 5 degrees - wind has dropped and snow is going. I'll be overdressed and overtyred (and overtired). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99158 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:11:34 +0000 Smudge 99158@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wish! All pretty much melted in Colinton today :-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412&page=2#post-99157 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:08:11 +0000 chdot 99157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8446847285/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8218/8446847285_c6d9ef9a66.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/scotland-braced-for-second-day-of-wintry-weather-1-2775295" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/scotland-braced-for-second-day-of-wintry-weather-1-2775295</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99135 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:21:08 +0000 DaveC 99135@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Snow in Sunny Kingdom!! Not much only 10mm perhaps but as it was dry overnight its lying and being compacted on side streets in to Edinburgh. Main roads with busses have been gritted as was the cycle path up to the bridge BUT only as most of the grit had been thrown by large vehicles onto the path!!</p> <p>In Edinburgh the A90 and Barnton paths were semi icy (fine with studs) and snow was compacted everythwere on side roads. Funny to see the veh tracks to see which vehicles have driven up streets and done a 3 point turn to drive back down...</p> <p>I came in after 8am and didn't get into Edinburgh until nearly 09.35 so I didn't see many vehicles. GOOD! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99132 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:03:11 +0000 fimm 99132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It has been snowing quite briskly here in Livingston so you may have got it in Edinburgh now. However at the moment it seems to be a very thin precipitation of some kind. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99129 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:20:08 +0000 wingpig 99129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was sticking to the road outside the house but the main roads were mostly free. Marionville Drive was exhibiting an interesting phenomenon where tiny little snowdrifts had formed and compacted against the windward face of each little rut on the surface, forming a slippery rumbly thing. The Innocent from Bingham was fine apart from the ungritted bit over the bridge just west of Duddingston Road West. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99128 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:18:44 +0000 steveo 99128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had more trouble walking in on the not-thin covering of snow to the main road than I did once I got there.</p> <p>The top road is usually gritted for the school but they clearly hadn't got there yet. At one point I went to clip in and the rear wheel just spun round, decided to walk a little further on after that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99127 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:10:01 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 99127@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Right. Where's all this snow?</p> <p>My street had a very thin covering, the main roads were completely clear however (but the headwind made progress somewhat slow....). I demand lots of snow!</p> <p>(on the cross bike again today - hoping that even just one day sees the mountain bike as a necessity). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99126 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:03:23 +0000 kaputnik 99126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spikes 1, winter 0. Slow but constant progress into the wind. Most of the side streets were pretty cold and covered in a fine, slippy powder of snow that hadn't gone to slush but had compressed into a sort of ice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99116 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:37:57 +0000 EddieD 99116@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The canal towpath had thin covering - and a nasty cross wind at Harrison Park - I did wonder if I was going to do an impromptu triathlon this morning. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99115 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:14:51 +0000 Uberuce 99115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some ice under the snow along Broomhouse path at twiddly little bit before South Gyle Access found and exceeded the limits of the studded tyre.</p> <p>I imagine the snow from path up to that point had packed in around the studs so hard they couldn't bite the ice as usual. </p> <p>You take that bit at walking pace even on a dry day, so I'm fine, bike is fine.</p> <p>Path's untreated, anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99114 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:07:54 +0000 amir 99114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dalkeith to KB also fine - some light snow but possible to avoid. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99112 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:40:37 +0000 fimm 99112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycling to Haymarket was fine: very thin covering of snow on pavements/untreated side roads: main roads clear. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99111 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:28:31 +0000 gembo 99111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Whiteout now </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99100 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:57:27 +0000 wee folding bike 99100@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>deckard112,</p> <p>Are you sure you mean drones and not Replicants?</p> <p>Weather not an issue here. There is weather, it's just not an issue. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99096 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:40:22 +0000 gembo 99096@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Flash mob blizzard in Balerno and then points east from 6pm, I cycled through a lot of it</p> <p>Slush getting slightly former the higher I clinmbed </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99094 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:54:35 +0000 Smudge 99094@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Snowing heavily in Falkirk area tonight, and forecast to keep on coming until the morning too :-o </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99093 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:46:04 +0000 Charterhall 99093@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Complete nightmare coming home past Clubbiedean/Torduff tonight, blinding snow, couldn't see a thing - I had to navigate most of it by memory ! But kind of fun too :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99092 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:40:21 +0000 amir 99092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Challenging weather on the way home. Snow is settling in Gilmerton but do the drivers drive safer? No - pretty much the opposite in my experience today. No slowing down, lots of close passes (I was out more than usual to avoid the snow). Also two times arrogant SOABs passed me then immediately turned left (one into a drive). Selfish b****s</p> <p>Road conditions improved towards Dalkeith but starting to settle I think. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99047 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:26:26 +0000 deckard112 99047@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Must admit every time I think 'is the weather too bad to cycle' I remind myself of the trudge to the bus stop (where I'll get wet and blown about anyway) then sitting in a tin box with 50 other depressed drones and taking twice as long to get to work than usual. </p> <p>That usually does the trick and I hop on the bike.</p> <p>As a well known explorer once said "There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9412#post-99001 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:33:56 +0000 steveo 99001@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another morning where my long lie has saved me from the worst of the weather. </p>