Just a quickie for anybody driving to/riding around the Dark Peak area. There is loads of black ice around. The whole of the road outside my house is 1 big sheet and is lethal. Go steady folks.

Tim.

Where abouts in the peak are you?

There was a bit of a thaw the last couple of days and then a very cold spell overnight. All roads in Sheffield covered in ice.

Yep it's bad around Glossop today although the gritters were out last night

jamesgarbett – so you are in Glossop as well then??

Yes mate Simmondley – I see you have a Blue Pig too

I cant get out of my house like 9mm ice over everything…im in bakewell

james – not just yet, just getting all the pieces together then the frame on Satudrday! Can't freaking wait…i'm up near Whitfield, about 5 mins walk from High Peak Cycles…

Is that near the Beehive?

There's a few ungritted or partially gritted roads around mine (New Mills) which are absolutely lethal now but all my riding this week has been indoors at a nice warm velodrome so it hasn't affected me that much!

Loads of black ice over the tops of Matlock this morning. I parked up in the golf club car park for over an hour and a half until the gritter came past (for those who know the area, there's now way I was going to attempt to drive down Slack Hill!). Finally got to work at 10.15.

james – yeah pretty much!

Ah right I go in there occasionally – my mate used to work with the landlord

never even set foot in there actually…only ever been in the wrens nest whilst living in glossop, used to reside in charlesworth. Do you ride locally with a bunch of folk? Don't know anyone locally, not anyone that rides mtb's anyway.

Good Chinese food in the Beehive bizarrely!

Sometimes ride with a few others, sometimes alone, mainly around Hayfield and Rowarth.

Drop me a line if you fancy a Blue Pig ride one day, but I warn you I'm slow 🙂

haha, yeah so am i so don';t worry about it, only been back in the saddle again for around 12 months…may have already seen you knocking about, I ride a Kona Blast Deluxe at the moment…

bonkers in north/central shuff (on the way to wharnecliffe) van locks frozen shut, windows under 1cm of solid clear ice.

LETHAL. way scarier than snow.

Sometimes I'm riding an orange Orange 5

Sorry for the delay TJR666, I'm in Thongsbridge,just outside Holmfirth. Its lethal out. News/weather reckons it will be bad tomorrow too.

Muffin Man – I was there about 7.30. I sat there for 20 minutes as the cars ahead just span out, and those coming down were all over the place. Thee were no gritters around this morning it seemed. Before that I'd stopped to help pull a VW Polo out of a ditch which doesn't fill you with confidence.

Steep Turnpike was bad enough late on friday night – there was no way I was chancing Slack Hill.