Looking frosty out there tonight. Gritters out. Down to zero at 7am. Could be another day on the MTB with spikey tyres tomorrow.
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Posted 11 years ago #
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It's chilly, but no frost or ice at any point in my commute in from the West
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Indeed, it was fine this morning so I took my standard commuter. Coming back it was starting to look a bit icy though, and it's down to freezing again tonight so who knows what tomorrow will bring...
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Warning displays along the bypass this afternoon said snow incoming for tomorrow, but forecasts say a little rain and just down to freezing? Anything could happen it seems.
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Very short shower of sleety-feeling rain in the west end at 1700. Much colder-feeling once east of Five Ways. My window-thermometer thinks its between 3 and 4 just now.
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Quite unpleasant snow/hail as I came through the meadows. Not a lot, but hard-driven.
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Pretty frosty out this morning. No sign of gritting. Be careful out.
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yep - pretty slippy in the south - managed the difficult bits by the bypass ok and then almost came a cropper on the tactile paving on the meadows.... not had a wobble on those before
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Frost on the underCrags path. Oddly, more people going downhill on the frosty path than on the unfrosted road.
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"Oddly, more people going downhill on the frosty path than on the unfrosted road. "
Probably been shouted at by motorists.
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Yes, slippery. Wish I'd noticed how slippery before coming a cropper on a Spylaw Road mini-roundabout. These often seem to be a bit skiddy - not sure whether it's the nature of the surface or the peculiar line you have to take, particularly when turning right. The desire line runs right over the top of the painted lump in the middle and modifying the approach by coming in from the left rather than primary is just an invite to impatient overtakes.
Fortunately no real damage and I shall have a pretty-coloured bruise to admire over the next few days.
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ouch - hope you recover ok. Good advice to avoid painted lumps though - they can be awful even when it's not this frosty...
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Weird, the NEPN was frost free but the beach sand and path along Seafield and Portobello prom had a thick white frost.
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@david.nutter Bad luck. Hope your bike is okay
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@algo
Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear - the line I take is around the roundabout, as distinct from the desire line which would take one over the painted lump. Not a good idea as you say!
Going round the roundabout results in a sharper-than-ideal right turn which normally is fine but not when the road is a bit slippy.
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Very frosty in Fife and Dundee this morning. So thick it crunched under foot. Milder in Edinburgh though no doubt some patches of slippery surfaces further inland. Coastal frost could be due to freezing fog which enveloped the train going over the Forth bridge.
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@david.nutter - I misunderstood - either sounds treacherous given the conditions! Hope you and the bike are ok.
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I was watching Wild China last night and a couple of guys in Manchuria were cycling on frozen lakes. They were cycling cautiously but it was amazing to see. Their tyres didn't look like anything special. The ice must have been very dry.
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BBC/Met Office forecasting heaving snow showers at 5pm tomorrow. WIll take mountain bike tomorrow for a change. Slushy roads in city centre can easily turn to snowy roads on journey home to Swanston and don't fancy that on skinny tyres with little grip. That can make the journey interesting from experience. And, on the plus point, shouldn't feel the terrible road surfaces as badly!
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If you think its chilly in Edinburgh, it's currently -14°C in St Louis, expected to drop to -16°C tonight. I have yet to see a single cyclist, depressingly.
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I needed to 'bed in' the new Schwalbe Winter tyres I put on my hybrid so I brought that in this morning in anticipation of the snow forecast for later.
That's the first time I've ridden with studded tyres. The rolling resistance felt significantly greater than my usual tyres, and the sound accompaniment was like spending 20 miles listening to the continual snap, crackle and pop of freshly poured rice crispies.
I'm actually looking forward to trying them out on ice and snow (within reason). Bring it on!
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It looks all 'blue skies, rain and daffodils' out there just now, but I didn't trust the weather later on to not snow, so wheeled out the spiky even-more-monstrousbike today.
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Beastiferous?
If I get the revitalised properbike up and running again this evening then the spare can be taken off commuting and finally get its several-month-old spikes fitted.
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Took the ridiculous motorised bicycle (Blackbird) in this morning. Brompton home tonight. Can't see the forecast snow coming to much but a bit of me would be delighted to be proven wrong :-)
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Small amount of rain, hail, sleet and snow on return to Balerno tonight
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Same here, between Haymarket and Leith along the NEPN, including some very pointy stuff being driven into my face.
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I found wind was into my face this morning and then again on way home, which ain't too cool
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I'll second Gembo's observation with the added attraction for me that the wind appeared to have backed so it was in my face cycling between the 2 work sites I was at today - Mutter, Mutter!
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