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Roads, hate it. Offroad, it depends on the ice really and also on my mood. I've had some great rides with a whole lot of scary ice, just being careful and picking lines and basically getting joy out of making it work and getting away with it. But other times it's just frustrating. I guess a big thing is the climbing, I'm way happier taking a risk on a descent than on a fireroad up!
Did used to have ice spikers but the number of times I actually had the right tyres on the right bike, or guessed the conditions right, was so slim.
Club has cancelled all road rides again this weekend.
I've fitted the Snow Studs to the gravel bike and hoping for a little play in the forecast snow.
Crack on I say. Everywhere round here has been grippier this week than the usual winter slop. Got some PR’s on the downs. (Pic at lunchtime today) 
Came off on road riding in a straight line not touching brakes or even accelerating, just a slight camber did it, busted up knee and rear derailleur (£200 di2). Today in BPW was the fastest and grippiest I’ve ever seen it, just perfect. Unfortunately my rear shock shat itself chucking me off so I’m lying here with a busted knee and ankle wondering how I’ll get to work. Self employed of course. Tits.
Its just not worth it especially when you are the wrong side of 60
@jkomo - heal quickly fella. Also being self-employed is a factor in my own personal risk-aversion. Anyway… snow forecast today! Riding in fresh snow is bloody great fun!
@vlad_the_invader - it does seem pretty unanimous 😂
So, we’re all calling @binners a big girlchild?
I reckon we can call him names without bringing gender into it.
It’s ok. It’s a phrase I used to describe myself in my original post.
It’s ok. It’s a phrase I used to describe myself in my original post.
Wasn't my point but never mind.
Annual Santa CX race today, very Christmasy conditions. I'll be fine with gravel tyres, right? 😬
Its just not worth it especially when you are the wrong side of 60
Well, I'm 76 & still love a good snow ride, only a dusting really (also icy) in West Yorkshire. Pic from yesterday.
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Wrong side of 60 but been out a couple of times in the past couple of snow days. Having a break today - orders from the boss. Even the logging roads in Cloich are fun, especially if you get there before the dog walkers. Just enough snow to be fun without getting in the way. The Rosetta Road however was scary and the path to Eddleston a hoot crunching the tractor tracks in the ice. Whoever rode a possible gravel bike much of the way up Hamilton Hill - chapeau! I walked.
Pentlands Thursday - not so good a day due to a thaw, but great at the time I took this.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7661667
I broke my back 3.5 yrs ago and simply can’t risk a hard hit ever again- so it’s a long ride on the turbo today for me - just having a brew and I’ll be making a start! 😬
Fresh snow can be fantastic. In the flatlands of Cambs, we get about an inch a year. This was day 1 of the week of snowmagedan last year:
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I do love a ride in the snow and it’s really coming down now. Yay! Here’s some picks I’ve dug out of a Snowmageddon ride a few years back
This morning. Small tarmac transition on the rmtb ride. This is a 90deg bend on a 1:4 climb. Just put it into the grassy verge and pedal like Billy-o. Didn’t fancy the chances of the roadies coming the other way from the top though!
Thanks Binners. In A&E now.
Last year one of the blokes in our riding group broke his hip on black ice. I'll be riding with him later this afternoon on Zwift.
When young and I lived near Bracknell Forest i used to love riding around Swindley in the winter as it was emptied out of those from That London.
My only riding window this weekend was this morning, it was -3 but no snow here in boring Berkshire, out on the gravel bike for a mixed on/offroad couple of hours, some hanging fog made things feel colder and I had ice forming on a few surfaces of me/the bike, my bottle was turning into a slushy but the ground was pretty much fine.
Certainly The right conditions for it, just nothing forming aside from some iced puddles, really odd...
Riding off-road in fresh snow is great, after it's had a thaw and refroze not so much. Just stick to take trails and take it easy is the winning formula.
Road riding? Nope.
I still go out but any hint of ice and I'll happily dismount. I rode the Bash and Maiden Moor on Thursday, plenty of sheet ice, I was just very mindful it was a solo ride and took it steady.
