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The snow only hit east Cornwall yesterday which got me home early and off completely today as my job involves getting big heavy loads in and out by road. But it's been -5 for most of the week which didn't stop me riding to work despite losing my gloves last week.
Went out to the woods with the dog today;
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He's got no respect for braking distances and is generally a liability to ride with so I'm hoping to go out with just the bike tomorrow and shred it to da knar etc..
Got out for another spin just before dark. Still windy but not as bad as yesterday. Icey as **** everywhere exposed and every bit of shelter has a massive drift behind it. All the Devon lanes (high hedges) have a 6ft drifts in them.
Hey Jim let me know if you fancy coming over Lanson way to have a go on our local downhillish trails sometime. They're more fun when the weather's better to fair..
It's been brilliant this week.
Double (extended) commutes in light snow Tuesday:
*Working from home lunch ride Wednesday.
*Working from home lunch trail run Thursday.
Day off 'drift' riding today
It's all gradually starting to melt now though ...
@lazlowoodbine Is that landlake? I’ve not been there in a while but my mate rob and his lad ride there a fair bit.
Yep, my brother, me and some mates built the first top-to-bottom tracks there years ago and it's evolved from there.
It was lovely last weekend what with the few dry days beforehand but as you probably know a little bit of damp turns it into a skid pan. Frozen it's pretty good.
I’m properly jealous of all the snow riding pics. It’s the first time we’ve had a good layer of snow in Surrey for quite a few years and I’m in Singapore with a cold and jet lag (it’s 5am and I can’t get to sleep).😡
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Steady 14 miler in this! Slow going!!
Finally stopped snowing long enough for me to want to get out on the not-quite-fat-bike this afternoon. Amazing to have the woods entirely to myself (apart from the kites and muntjacs).
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The riding conditions were pretty good, but some of the drifts that were axle deep on the way out were knee deep coming back.
Posting photos is a black art....
Popped to the local brewery for some hot sausage action and a beer...
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Took the new Capra for its first taste of singletrack in Stanmer park yesterday
A couple of awesome rides turning easy local loops into a great adventure 🙂
High winds, drifting snow and not a lot of visibility made riding along Harlaw road a little difficult:-
Things were much nicer lower down:-
Still tough going in the trees:-
Has Thursday off so deposited the kids at primary school & headed up into the hills behind Forres with the Fatbike. We've missed the worst of it in Morayshire but still found 4-5" of fresh powder above Loch Romach. First up the hill totally untouched, clear blue skies, no wind, just amazing weather to be out in, 15 miles of awesomeness.
Heaps of pics on my FB page UK Fatbike club page, ill have to actually use my instragram a/c to post on here.
MTB is out of service so no fun to be had en piste. My favourite 3spd Netherlander soldiers on regardless. Biggest challenge was finding the cycle path:
Wine run 🙂
Rickmeister that last pic of yrs is a cracker
No, mother nature can **** right off.
A short but hard work loop round our local hills.
This snow bank was just firm enough to ride
This one wasn't!
It was the usual case of some good riding with bits that were very frustrating
We'd ridden this path on Wednesday morning after our February Bivy-a-Month. Then it was 30cm deep but in the intervening three days the wind has stripped it away
Good fun but hard work. It took four hours for just 20km! It's a bit much when you are wearing your full winter mountaineering kit to go biking.
Went out for a bible with the family. Ended up doing mostly tracks/road as all the paths were 50cm+ snowdrifts. Came across a fair few ditched cars and sections of road that were completely covered by 100cm+ of snow for 200m+ (for reference the top pic is a main road and the only clear bit was a verge that's normally about 30-40cm high)
Sneaked a quick 10 mile local loop in this morning - weird conditions, the wind has cleared the trails completely in places, lots of compacted snow and ice that the Ice Spikers clung to gloriously, then foot deep powdery stuff that I just couldn't get get proper traction in
Absolutely nae idea if this will work but link to some of my pics from Thursday.
@dahedd Are they Specialized Fat Ground Control tyres?
How have you found them on various surfaces, with and without snow/ice?
Set off yesterday on nice snowy lanes with only one set of car tyre tracks, wondering why I didn't have big snow drifts. Then about a mile from home ran into this
Just about enough room for me to get through between the snow and the hedge, but not really my bike - had to throw it over the drifts and drag it above my head as I sank into my knees. The going got a bit easier after that but the drifts got bigger:
I reckon that's a ten foot drift. Ground is level with the road on that side of the hedge.
Only did about a 5 mile 'road' ride but it was pretty epic. Never seen snow like that outside the mountains.
Yeah mate. Ground Control 4.6 running them about 9psi normally, down to about 7 on Thursday. Probably could have gone lower.
Really like them, far better than the Floaters I was using.
Nice snowdrifts molgrips.
^^ Bit melty round these parts now.
I was planning on riding upto the Quantocks from home today but anything more than a slight hill was unrideable so had to make do with 10 miles down the local canal/river then around town to see what was open.
Managed to get myself filmed at the local hospital riding past in the middle of a tv news report and overtake a few struggling roadies spinning away on slick tyres.
My legs feel like I've done 20 miles!
25 km ride to Swinley, followed by a bimble around Blue and a 50 km ride home. This was on the cross bike. Whilst the tyres were OK on the road, they left a lot to be desired in the snow.
What cross tyres for snow?
ok, i give up. how do i embed instagam?
I just did it tonight for the first time ever. Uploaded some pics to instagram then copied & pasted the address. I think it worked, at least one did.
I took the fatbike to coast to escape the worst of the snow. I know fatbikes are supposed to be made for snow and they are great in a few inches of the stuff (like I had today), but much more than that (and we've got loads) then they are still just a slog. Plus with it being the coast, if I got fed up of the snow I could always bail out to the beach 🙂
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It looks like you are copying the address of the web page holding the image not that of the image itself. The "Insert Image" dialog only works with recognised file extensions, usually ".jpg" or ".jpeg". Right click on the actual image, choose "Copy address" or "Copy Image Address" and then paste that into the dialog. You might have to figure out which is the correct one for your browser. Then click in the next entry field "Image description" this triggers a bit of code to work out the dimensions of the image otherwise it will be inserted as 0 x 0 pixels in size.
Just when I thought I could post pictures it all goes Base over apex.
Just paste the link straight into the post window. The rest automagically happens.
torrential rain in west Devon now. 🙁
22 miles in the Warwickshire Alps yesterday with a group. Awesome fun.
I was on my fatbike and crashed I'd say 6 times trying to push in Singletrack and the front wheel sledging off away from me. Otb into a big drift too. 🙂
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Today looks crap though. Trails will be far too soggy, roads still a slushy mess with nowhere to ride it be passed.. and raining.
Managed two commutes in and out of Edinburgh, one pre-'Red' warning and one during the middle of it. Conditions were brilliant, probably the only time a 17km mostly flat tarmac commute will feel epic. Spindrift blowing across the road and forming plumes over the top of field walls, headwinds to stop you dead in your tracks, and of course the tailwinds to match on the way home.
Managed a good 50km on the bike again yesterday just following my nose along roads that looked open. The compacted snow that had been driven over a few times made for brilliant riding with 40psi in my 32mm slicks, but as it warmed up slightly things started getting a little treacherous and soft in places, one silly wee fall near the end when I panic braked for a car that was crawling towards me in the distance, but otherwise all good.
Legs feel heavier now than after any number of longer faster rides!
Can't be arsed trying to figure out posting imgur pics, imagine a pink bike on various snowy backgrounds...
Edit: Ahh - I see. just doesn't work in post preview!
Went today. Wet feet now.
Above Macc Forest this morning...
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Made it upto the Quantocks today, there's a road underneath this lot. The trails weren't as bad but I'd had enough of pedalling and not going anywhere yesterday!
Not been out for 4.5 weeks due to sodding man flu and various commitments. Had hoped to escape when the snow first arrived but this shifty cough/cold made a return and has wiped me out a second time within a month. Properly *%+^ed off.
Immense fun and the Stache did really well even in the puffy stuff.
in the last photo, the snow is over a foot deep and the Stache is sinking only about 3 inches into it with tyres at 8psi.
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Got out this morning for a second snowy ride. Was great at first (apart from the traction issues where people had been walking - can't remember another ride where I spent as much time sideways) but as the morning wore on it just got dirtier, softer and slushier. Was horrible by the end of the ride. Hopefully this rain we now have will have got rid of it all by morning...
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Headed West to Conwy as Macc forest has loads of trees down, Charity and the likes are just level with snow and not been Conwy for a while.
was a tough one with a few bits of pushing through the snow, but 99% rideable so well worth the trip. Found a little snow cave someone had built just after the YH @ Rowen too
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@colournoise - it was a nightmare even on the fat-bike. The thawing slush was unbelievably awful.
Had great fun 🙂 The Snow had an ice crust on it by the time I got out. In places it stopped you dead, and going downhill I was actually worried it might slash the sidewalls!
Where some keen/idiotic 4x4ers had been out to lay tracks I got quite good traction.
At one point on a downhill the ice was thick enough to ride on top of the snow. That was interesting at 20mph+
Slushy splooshie murky mess
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Managed to get a quick local 16 miler in on Saturday morning before it melted. First ever proper snow ride for me, loved it, was tough riding in fresh stuff and waist high drifts at times meant a bit of hike n bike, but great fun, no where near as sketchy as I thought it would be, such a shame this happens so rarely in the UK.
A bit late to the show but still plenty of snow about in Kielder Forest..unfortunately it is melting which made the going a bit of a slog ..
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Took a flask & managed to get my ginger nuts out ..
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