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.
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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.
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.
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. :)
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!
Snowing in EH9, lying on the ground
Snowing in EH9, lying on the ground
I recommend you get indoors then, you'll catch cold ;-)
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.
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!)
"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!
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.
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