[Closed] Who's been out riding in the snow then? 😀

Too much snow here and the windchill is unbelievable.  If something went wrong it could turn nasty very easily!

Still no snow here. But I was out at 6:30am riding on hard, frosty ground with the dog. Only for 1/2 hour but my thumbs were completely numb by the time I got home.

Went out for a bivy last night (got down to -8C) so a bit of night riding in the snow - great fun until you catch the edge of a rut that's completely hidden! Headed home at 0630 this morning in more snow with an incoming snow shower, great fun until I caught the edge of a completely hidden rut!

Note to self: Van Helgas make an absolute racket on the road, even a snowy road 🙂

As posted on other thread, oh yes.

@funkydunc - it's first commute I've done with winter hill gear bag in my pack.

Been out in the inch or two that's in the Surrey hills

had a wonderful ride, beautiful views, really grippy snow and not a drop of mud

caught the handlebars on a fence on the way home and knee'd the fork crown hard, stings a bit!

Icy cold last night (-5) but I managed two hours on the road. Trike to work today, but no snow to speak of.

Planning a 35 miler tomorrow. This

If something went wrong it could turn nasty very easily!

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great fun until you catch the edge of a rut that’s completely hidden!

are tempering my enthusiasm slightly!  It's not going to be the quickest ride ever, but it shouldn't be the slowest.  I'm mainly going because it's usually a muddy slog in winter, so I want to get a ride in while it's frozen hard.  I'd be taking the fatbike for the frozen chunder whether there was snow or not.

Went out yesterday on wife’s fat bike but needed more snow...boy did we get it today. I let the tyres down and had a blast round. First time it’s been used for one of the purposes it was designed for. Good fun and it’s good when you fall off cos it’s nice and soft. You are right about the wind chill though. Evil.

This was the cycle into work, south of Sheffield.

Oh, bloody hell, I didn't realise that I'd bumped into the living leg end* that is La Poddy...!

(I was the guy riding Cooking On Gas the wrong way** for reference)

Carried on along Houdkirk, then back down Blacka. For a flat fireroad/landy track, Houndkirk was epic. Ridiculous windchill and very flat light so I had no idea what I was riding over until after I'd hit it. Not helped by my 2-ride old Pikes going VERY stiff. I hadn't realised that was still a thing (not that I spend much time riding in -lots°C)

*Better than being a living bell end

**yes, shoot me, seemed like a good idea at the time.

Hi Jon! Nice to meet you, it was flipping freezing up there wasn't it? 🙂 I'd have loved to hang around for a natter but my face was freezing up and I didn't like it!

@jonEdwards - I thought something along those lines myself this morning. Riding a bike in fresh snow is very much like skiing powder or in a white out: you've no idea what the hell is happening down there you've just got to go with the flow. I probably had way too much pressure* in the tyres (8.5psi) for the temperature and bounced around a bit.

*Rookie error - I checked the pressures while in the house not outside in the temperature I was going to be riding in.

If something went wrong it could turn nasty very easily!

Hence why I stayed on bridleways mostly and wasn't really ever more then 1/2 mile from civilisation 🙂

I nipped out at 9-10pm last night on the South Downs after family duties finished.

Amazing ride, clear sky, loads of snow, could see for miles.

Garmin said it was -8

Extended my commute and took the mountain bike this morning - headwind was a killer on the way back though!

I haven't had a chance yet but this was a few weeks ago 😀

Just a quick loop from the house and onto a local hill. I stuck to the back roads, some of which are already impassable to traffic. Hiking through snow drifts while the wind tries to rip the bike off your shoulders and the skin off your face was a little different 🙂

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Hoping to nip out this afternoon on hard frosty trails, our snow's not due til tonight.  Hoping that my wife has a day off work too as the kids are already off and I want to ride!

Managed a mighty 17km, crossed no contours but the bit into the wind was completely exposed. 32:16 killed me.

JAG where is that? pub looks familiar used to live round there many moons ago well Alcester

Hi,

I managed a stunning 2 hr fatbike ride up from my door in the dales this pm. The fells were rock solid with some huge drifts in places that had me walking at times. So much fun apart from a savage wind. JUST warm enough with overtrousers and ski gloves...

I didnt feel like doing much more re windchill.... I told people were I was going as I wouldnt want to wait for days for help to arrive re a fall... was way colder than yesterdays outing !

Happy trails,

Paul

Yesterday and today out on the local loop (roads are all closed / impassable).  Loving the North Pennines...

Took the MTB for the commute this morning, was ace.  Just about to head home the same way 🙂

Racing Ralphs on a 45mm rim make for a surprisingly good snow tyre!

Went out yesterday and crashed when front wheel touched the edge of a rut in a landrover track. Fell onto my back on the edge of the paraĺlel rut. Smashed ribs. On my own. No mobile signal. Long painful walk to nearest house. Trip to A&E. Can't move. Lesson learnt.

Bit Nippy last night!

Great fun

Bikepark Wales in the snow - that was a great day!

Went out last night. It was -6! Did my local bridleway/footpath loop which is usualy a nightmare this time of year due to mud and horse hooves, but the frozen mud plus fat bike tyres was an incredibly grippy combination just stuttering over the top of it!

Debating another trip out tonight but it's been sunny today so I'm not sure it'll be as pleasant.

I was out last night, tonight I'm debating skis or bike.

Glorious 0530 ride on the Sarf Downs near Eastbourne.  About 1/2 inch of snow and granite hard ground and -9.2°C.  Very still, however took the dogs for a walk at 1630 and the wind chill was painful !

Yeah cracking snow to ride in, but scary cold wind.

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It was gorgeous out on hard ground.  Local loop faster than even in the summer.  Snowed a little whilst I was out, whitened everything up.  Epic 🙂

Loads of snow to fall here tonight (Northern Ireland) so plan a maiden ride on my new Salsa Vaya, should be a hoot😃

Sent home early when the building closed, which meant daytime fat biking. OK then, only if you insist...

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Baildon Moor West Yorkshire this morning. Strong winds & heavy snow made this moorland road almost impassable. Apart from abandoned cars I saw nothing moving.

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Cobblers, I picked wrong. Went for skis but was too lazy to drive up to Glenmore so went round the woods. Would have been a good bike ride but a bit shit on the skis.

So I'm back home already and its getting a bit late to think again. Waste of a good evening.

I'm stuck trying to understand how to add pictures from Flikr.... tried the forum help... couldn't crack it...

Quick head-clearing slide around the local woods. The only thing more ridiculous than this was that I have a perfectly good fat bike that I left at the bike shop last night...

Wee Cotic did me proud though.

I’m stuck trying to understand how to add pictures from Flikr…. tried the forum help… couldn’t crack it…

Easy!

That's some photo bigjim especially the weather front rolling in. At least round Edinburgh you can enjoy cracking views some interesting single track and its never far from a pub or cafe to warm up!

Quick local blast on the Dune. The wind was colder than a snowman's back pocket.

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"I’m stuck trying to understand how to add pictures from Flikr…. tried the forum help… couldn’t crack it…"

Me too 🙁

I can't do it from the mobile app, but from a PC I just select the bbcode option on Flickr. Paste that into the reply and then delete the stuff at the beginning and end, so you just leave the bit between the img tags (including the tags themselves). It's not as hard as it sounds 🙂

I was tempted.. then i went outside to the garage.... 10s later i picked up my riding kit, my bike and brought the turbo into the house for some Zwift time later.. .i'm sooooo  not riding out there.

This is what counts as a heavy snowfall in Cornwall (obviously all the schools and shops are shut today) but it was also probably the driest these woods have been in years!

-7 round Stonesfield (Oxfordshire) last night.  Brilliant fun, bone dry and grippy.  Looked amazing.  Second hill into the ride my hands warmed up.

Started out about 5pm with an unusually fiery sunset happening.

Returned to van approx 30 secs later for a bigger pair of gloves.

Returned to van again another 30 secs later to wear two pairs of gloves.

Felt more like Lapland than Lancashire pedaling up the hill.

Road halfway up the hill was something of an ice rink, but there was a surprising amount of grip on the fresh snow in the woods...

Started snowing heavier later on and I called it a night following a crash that left me on my back in a streambed, after my pal had gone home,

Van said minus six, was probably colder up the hill but only really uncomfortable when in the wind.

Me me.

Feldberg Summit, Black Forest. Tuesday.

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The tower is the Schwarzwald Bacon Museum

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i can see it rickmeister. Was just gonna ask where but it’s just appeared.

Me but I didn't want to stop on my commute in this morning to take photographs. Did enjoy it thought, for once I got the clothing just right. First time wearing my 3yr old Madison Addict jacket wasn't too hot. Army gortex trouser were just right for a 4.5 mile commute too. Off road for most of the route, good grip for most.

Some awesome pics. Stunning scenery Rickmeister! 🙂

going to head out in 15 minutes 🙂

Not biking cos the bike is in bits at the moment, but went out for a run early doors.  I now know what Edinburgh will look like in the zombie apocalypse.  No traffic and small groups of people shuffling slowly up the road on foot.  Spindrift plume blowing off the top of the crags like the films of Everest in winter.  But brilliant fun.

We were out last night as usual.

Fantastic - the wind threatened early on (just after 7pm), but then didn't really get nasty.

The snow was grippy, the ground underneath was 99% solid (only a couple of long-term boggy puddles weren't), and the only real danger was deep mud ruts that had frozen solid and were being masked by the snow. Two and a bit hours, feet were toasty in decent boots, fingers reasonably comfortable. A lovely pint afterwards and feeling smug when other pub punters came outside for a fag seemed to think we were some kind of elite unit for getting out and about.

Car thermometer bottomed at -7.5 Celsius on the way home - but the whole thing felt much warmer than a few weeks ago when I got soaked on a wet and windy Saturday morning with the temp around +5 Celsius.

More Beast, please!

Some lovely photos here!

I took the fatbike today, as I'm aiming to ride part way home on it.  28c GP4S were fine yesterday (4 Seasons, mind - all 4!) but 4 inches of Jumbo Jim were a little more confidence inspiring in the 2.5 miles of slush and ice and compacted snow.

17miles cross wind, then 17miles tail wind.  the right way round I think. Should be "fun"!

short but fun, not much snow really but some localized driftage 🙂

with hamfisted winter glovage

Snowy swinley on single speed basher

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Got out yesterday afternoon after being sent home; live just north of the red warning zone

Not much snow really, bit draggy on the tracks

I was out for an hour locally yesterday. Not too much snow here, the ground is frozen and dry but **** me was it cold! The wind cut straight thorough me and I couldn't stop my nose from running.

Hoping to get out again tomorrow if I can get away from work early.

Chain broke on the mtb in the driveway?!

Quick fettle and had my CX with Nobby Nicks sliding around!

Bit overrated about stopping the country getting to work etc bloody good excuse for a day off though lol

Just back from a short ride out on new Vaya here in Northern Ireland

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I managed to get out last night.  It was a blast, a cold, tiring, short blast.

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Had another quickie with the doggo just now, a mere minus-two but gusty out there today.

He was lovin' it...

Not done masses, but commuted in on the big bike and then had time for a play when we shut up shop at lunch.

Hopefully heading out to somewhere in Shropshire tomorrow....

Night ride last night -9.6 on Farleton Knott  one and a half hours later stuck down Reverb Monarch rear shock and brakes froze .

Rigid hardtail tonight

Short trip to the shops earlier, kept expecting the Wazoo to slip over, despite the studded Gravdal tyres at ~35/60PSI. Earlier in the day, I was contemplating a recreational ride, but that ride of necessity scared me witless!

Fresh snow was fine, it was the compacted stuff hidden underneath, from lines cars had taken.

Am I right in thinking that I will get more rear wheel traction from the 252 studded 38mm Gravdal. rather than a 4" Jumbo Jim or Vee Mission Command in snow/icy conditions?

Rode to work yesterday and today. Took the off-road route on the trans pennine trail which covers 95% of my commute.

i have not found it that cold to be honest.

North of Cardiff today. It'll be much, much deeper tomorrow.

From left: molgrips, saxonrider, and knightrider3

You can't really see but that trail was almost pristine, only had one runner on it before us.  Cracking ride.  And SaxonRider has underpants on his face.

Went out for an hour this morning. The snow was surprisingly grippy but the wind has created some drifts that are impossible to ride through.

Garmin says it was -4degC but the wind felt a lot colder.

Went out yesterday and it was the most laugh out loud fun I've had on a bike round the Derbyshire Dales. It certainly makes the trails come alive. There were waist high drifts on the singletrack that you could just smash through. The Stache was built for it - 3" tyres are a great snow plough!

There were 4x4s stuck in ditches and I only managed 8 miles, which took me 2 hours, as the drifts were too deep on a lot of the trails and I didn't want to stray more than a couple of miles from home. Some of the lanes were full to the brim of snow between the walls, there was no way I was getting down them. You can see in the last picture just how mad the wind was - it really blasted my face, more than half an hour on the tops would have been grim.

Here in the SW, I enjoyed yesterday's ride so much I went camping in the local hills last night. Walking out before dawn this morning, I followed the tracks of at least one evening MTB rider down a local downhill. Storm in a teacup.