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2012 Snowday - Number 1

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  • Started 11 years ago by kaputnik
  • Latest reply from wee folding bike

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  1. Smudge
    Member

    Turned to ice cold rain as I got onto the bike (sigh), numb face by the time I got to Haymarket :-o

    Half expecting to be above the snowline by the time I get home.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  2. Greenroofer
    Member

    Despite having studded tyres on today, I walked across the Slateford aqueduct. Smooth cobbles with ice on made for a treacherous surface, and with my tyres at 6 bar (i.e. not maximum spikieness) and no margin for error it felt the right thing to do.

    Callum (?) who I pass there every day said he'd felt his back wheel go as soon as he got on to the aqueduct and hopped off his bike straight away and walked across for the first time in ages. There were two of us walking across west bound when a third person came whizzing round the corner onto the the aqueduct and promptly fell off (without falling into the water).

    Take care on there tomorrow, if it's still frosty.

    P.S. When Morningsider said yesterday that he lost his bottle on Bruntsfield Links, I read that to mean that he had to stop because his actual bottle came off. It's taken a day for me to realise what happened.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  3. Dave
    Member

    Narrowly avoided quite a tumble on the way home, at the frozen pool on the kink leading up the ramp to the crossing for NEPN on Lindsay Rd.

    I just wasn't thinking about the surface at all, having negotiated the crazy mess of collapsed wire fence, and tried to take the 90 degree turn over the pool of ice at speed. Front wheel skid into railings arrested by studs at eleventh hour.

    Studded tyres paid for this year already. :)

    Posted 11 years ago #
  4. Baldcyclist
    Member

    Well, I can honestly say that is the most miserable hour and twenty minutes I've spent on a bike since, well, since last night!

    Posted 11 years ago #
  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Snowing in EH9, lying on the ground

    Posted 11 years ago #
  6. Snowy
    Member

    Snowing in EH9, lying on the ground

    I recommend you get indoors then, you'll catch cold ;-)

    Posted 11 years ago #
  7. Nelly
    Member

    And building on kappers point - its still lying in EH9 which means it will definitely be slippy slidey toward Edinburgh Park - be careful out there.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  8. deckard112
    Member

    Have to admit was pretty slippy this morning, commute to work was very tenative on the side roads. An icy off at the weekend has put a dent in my confidence and I appear to approach all corners like a 90 year old on roller skates at the minute.

    (No offence to elder skaters intended!)

    Posted 11 years ago #
  9. cb
    Member

    "I appear to approach all corners like a 90 year old on roller skates at the minute"

    I've done that ever since an icy off 25 years ago when doing my paper round!

    Posted 11 years ago #
  10. wee folding bike
    Member

    Icy in the Wild West too. I think the rain yesterday afternoon might have washed the salt away so this morning we had a sheet of ice. On other roads there was ice in the schuch.

    Left the trike in Coatbridge Tesco foyer while I got some photo paper and Parker mechanical pencil leads. To get to Tesco I use a few hundred metres of route 75 as a short cut. It was more icy than the road.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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