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dig out your snow tyres and your wooly vests
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Posted 13 years ago #
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At first glace past the already open tab in firefox I thought that was a concrete explosion.
I think you meant glacé
Posted 13 years ago # -
Possibly not the season to update this particular thread (although there was a metre wide patch of snow [probably hail, but it looked like snow] outside Cluny Church last Friday - anyone else see that? Very weird)
Anyhows - grippy footwear was discussed back on page 6. Anyone who wants to be prepared for the next snow deluge might want to know that JJB Sport at Hermiston Gait are selling Yaktrax at half price (£10 rather than £20). They are closing down and everything is half price.
They only had/have large size, but they seem to be a reasonable fit for my size 8 hiking boots.Posted 12 years ago # -
Thanks for the reminder, I was looking at these when we received the big dump of snow and the next day they'd sold out. Since then Nevisport have had lots, which I suspect they bought but arrived too late...
Speaking of large clumps of white stuff on the roads, our local train st, had large piles of white hails sized salt left over from winter behind a fenced off area. looking at it did strike me as very snow looking, strange especially considering the heat we've had recently.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Good one, cb. I'll have a look after work today! The website reckons on size Large being good for up to EU47, just, so might be touch and go on the fit.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Now is definately the time to buy them. I was very much Smuggy McSmug when the snow hit last year having bought my spikes the previous spring.
Posted 12 years ago # -
got in the lift* this morning with another guy who had parked his bike, and commented on the weather, and then looked at his clothes - long trousers, cagoule and...a fleece jersey underneath????????????????
*Heavy panniers are my only excuse.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Should have said, the YakTrax are next to the checkouts.
Posted 12 years ago # -
If I'd read cb's last comment, I would've found them quicker! Good spot, though. There are a couple of dozen pairs remaining, all size Large. They stretch nicely over my Shimano bike shoes so will probably do my hiking boots as well.
Lots of pairs of trainers, trackie bums and tops, t-shirts, vests, sports bras, shoelaces, fluorescent yellow slapwraps, and even some anonymous and slightly lonely looking bicycle tyres.
Posted 12 years ago #
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