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dig out your snow tyres and your wooly vests
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Midlothian Council workers being allowed to leave work early due to the weather""First time in living memory that all Edinburgh schools have been closed." Jenny Dawe
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Radio Scotland News.That'll be the because it's the first time the council has decided to close all schools!
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Now where do you think all that snow is going to go when he stops...?
"Argh! Mildred! I've gone blind, I can't see!"
"Geoffrey, it's the snow from the top of the car."
"Oh."
Well cleared car other than that - could equally fall off backwards onto, or just in front of, a following car, or sideways onto pedestrians or cyclists...
Out in the car yesterday I could swear I was the only person on the road who had thought about clearing the snow off his headlights and indicators.
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You don't need to clear the snow off your indicators if you never use them...
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SNOW brought chaos to the roads and shut schools today and the Capital is bracing itself for more, with snow forecast to continue until Wednesday and overnight temperatures expected to plummet as low as minus ten.
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(I thought this had been posted earlier)
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"Supermarket Waitrose in Morningside has announced it was to close early, at 1700 GMT"
If you get there in time you might notice that Waitrose Weekend (newspaper) is advertising its new iPhone (and android) app with a QR code (black and white squares like in left column...)
"This app ... useful information ... such as Christmas opening hours"
Unless it snows...
OT again.
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Another alternative to Kahtoola Microspikes, possibly a bit cheaper:
Do the Microspikes ball up at all? Looks like quite a lot of metal down there.
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No but this is the first and only time I have used them and I was walking completely on snow. I daresay if you walked on concrete alot they would get damaged but they are so easy to pull on and off there would be no need on mixed terrain.
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7 pages in 6 days... we must be talking about the weather :)
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apparently you can get pulled over by the police and charged with driving a car in a dangerous condition not fit for the roads
just love to see them hoover up cash doing this on a few major routesPosted 13 years ago # -
@cb - good find! thanks
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Andrew from Bike Works on cycle just after I took picture of stray trip hazard (Max)
Narrow tyres were cutting into snow and he ended up walking bike.
More snow than it looks on MMW. Icy underneath.
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People at work keep mentioning how they think I'm mentally deficient because I cycled in. I've been thinking about that attitude a lot today.
Yes, it took a lot of physical and mental effort and concentration on my part. There were bits when it was scary and hy hands were sore and my arms ached from tension and gripping the bars and brakes so tightly. Yes it took me twice as long as normal, but I left an hour and a half before I normally would.
I knew that I was 100% going to get in. I knew that if it got really bad I could get off and push all by myself, at any point, even along "blocked" roads. I knew that if not even that worked then I had a lock and could leave the bike somewhere safe and proceed on foot, to retrieve it at a later date. I knew that I was wrapped from head to toe in thermals (h****t dispensed with in favour of my hillwalking insulated hat) and I had spares in my pannier. I knew that if I got stuck, there wasn't a hill or drift that I couldn't push the bike up, through or over all by myself. I knew that if I found that I couldn't stop using just the brakes then I could always just put my feet on the ground and, worst case scenario, just fall over. I knew that I wasn't going to break down and block other traffic.
So I can't quite understand why I'm the "mad" one
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Yes exactly. Although to be fair I walked most of the way, I just had my bike with me. But I was making progress at all times and getting stuck anywhere was just not going to happen. I saw many many stuck vehicles though and I daresay I will see a lot more on the way home.
Plus I am still here whereas I think all the drivers have left (if they came in at all-there are plenty of people from outside Edinburgh though which is different).
Posted 13 years ago # -
Well said.
Although tomorrow my better half is getting the bus and walking rather than driving, so I'm going to chum her on the bus and do the same.
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Walking along with a pram yesterday I felt even more stable than the very stable I usually feel just on my feet. With about 17kg of bicycle and lock alongside me on the bits I had to walk today there was a similar feeling of extra support (or extra/balancing weight, as required).
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Hmmm, which all leaves me wondering, should I take the MTB tomorrow, or the car, or hike in?
My route is Haymarket out to Colinton so I'm thinking canal towpath and old railway, anyone know what they're like?Posted 13 years ago # -
Humm Im supposed to go into town for dinner around 7.. anyone doing the innocent to portobello route tonight? think ll get away with 32c cross tyres? or is it better to head on road via duddingstone?
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I was planning on doing the Innocent from St Leonards as far as Duddingston Road West, then using the road to Duddingston, but just to avoid the road round the south of the park (I don't know what it's like, but I know what drivers are like around it).
This morning the Innocent was virtually unrideable (Min will back me up here). She had CX knobblies on, I was 2.1 MTB knobblies.
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Yep, pretty much impassable sadly.
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I'm still at work, just me and one colleague. Everyone else has scarpered early and left us to be the in case of emergency cover, although god knows what we're supposed to do if there is an emergency. I'm hoping to get a bus home, but if they're running as badly as they were this morning, I'll be walking the Innocent route again. Or maybe go round by the road in view of it being dark. Although I suppose the axe murderers will be cosy at home. Do axe murderers read this forum? I'll definitely not be going via the Innocent in the dark, axe murderers, and even if I did, I carry a gun. er.
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I'm actually considering George Street, Regent Road, then the main road out past Meadowbank instead - sticking to as main roads as possible as these should be the clearest...
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"then the main road out past Meadowbank"
Probably faster, less slippery and, unfortunately, more scope for 'you're in my way' moments.
I did Morningside and Comiston Roads (in daylight) - on slicks - surface fine. So much gutter snow that it was much harder for vehicles to pass.
Really didn't appreciate the LB a foot or so away from me impatiently trying to get to a bus stop.
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Exactly, that's the toss-up decision I'm facing!
Even if I have to walk the Innocent (and I was wondering if the snow might have been more suitably flattened in the intervening period between this morning's ride and now) it's not a 'long' section.
Equally, I can try the south park road, and if it's bad hop off and use the pavement to walk, which kinda proves Kaputnik's point. Hmmm, this may be the winning option.
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"was wondering if the snow might have been more suitably flattened in the intervening period between this morning's ride and now"
Very unlikely - not much 'traffic' and unlikely to have thawed much.
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Did anyone do Queen St this morning? Wondering if it'll be any better than Princes Street if my office isn't closed tomorrow. Wondering if it might be preferentially treated seeing as it's used by vulnerable wee cars rather than big heavy buses...
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This morning the Innocent was virtually unrideable
I'm thinking of trying the trike on MMW and other paths... only thing is rear mech on 20" wheels is very low to ground. So answer is to stay in high gear. As it's a company asset I don't want to trash though as nasty mix of slush and salt on roads...
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"I'm thinking of trying the trike on MMW and other paths"
Less likely to fall over, but surely much less chance of traction?
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