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I enjoyed the very minus snowpocalypse last year. Bring it on.
Mentally bad?
Oh Dave!
You, sir, are either a lunatic or a majority shareholder in British Gas.
Well, anything other than the mentally underwhelming summer we've had. Basically a break in the rain and wind would be nice...
(there's been plenty of nice weather about I'm sure, just not whenever I went to the hills... 🙁 )
Yes please! Got a chest freezer as well now so even more prepared... Still need a decent sledge though...
Apart from the heating bill and frozen pipes aspect, yeah!!!! Bring it on!!!
Less ice mind you, but aye kinda agree, it was good fun i thought, commuted though the worst of it! 🙂
Yup. Renewed my local ski club membership and got the snow tyres ready to go on.
Can't wait 😀
Absolutely - bring it on! I want proper cold, blue skies, thick frost and deep snow.
Then a nice warm spring and a proper summer please!
Want to go skiing so yes
Want to shift a land rover so yes
Dont want to replace it till summer so no
Want to get the fat bike out in the snow so yes
Hvnt got room to hwve it at the house atm ( between houses in a pokey cottage) so no 🙁
Want to get the log burner on so yes 🙂
cold and sunny, possibly with snow, yes
wet and grey, no
I'd be up for that. Already have a winter's worth of well seasoned logs ready and I must say I really enjoyed the crazy walks to work in the snow, roads bereft of cars, music playing on my iPod. 🙂
just remind me to get a pond heater in time & I'd be up for that - working from home instead of slogging to Barnsley & back every day, I could live with.
I lost 8 golden & blue orfes to a frozen pond last year. 3 shubunkins survived, they're like small koi now.
I like my frozen fish to come from the freezer & say "Birdseye*" on the packet
*other brands of frozen fish are available
Yes please. Moved recently to the top of a hill so plenty of reasons to get snowed in and sledge right down to the beach 🙂
No! 🙁
Sierra Nevada in the morning and the beach in the afternoon would be quite nice though.
Yeah, I kind of want to build a snowbike sledge thing.
Hated last winter and the winter before.
I don't mind an average winter, but the last two were mad.
No,no,no!
I think if the country was geared up to dealing with snow it would be a much nicer experience.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Ice tyres biting on neve then starting to slip on the gradients when the temperature drops under -10?C or so. The clean bite in the air. The quietness. The warm hush just before it starts to snow. Skating over Cut Gate on Ice Spikers with the sun setting. Just brilliant 🙂
I really don't agree with Dave on much but I'm with him on this one. Let's ave it...
XC skis waxed and ready. Bring it on.
I'll take some snow so everything looks nice and white. I'll even accept traffic grinding to a halt so I can feel smug riding my bike and walking to the supermarket. But I'd rather not have it over a foot deep so it brings all my guttering down and causes a damp problem while it defrosts again.
I'd be quite happy with some driving and riding in the snow but I'm just worried about other road user than aren't that savvy in the conditions
Bring it on...I've got my Larry ordered 😀
Yes, why not ... 🙂
Nope. Hoping for a nice mild one.
Yes. Preferably extremely cold, awesome snow that's about 2ft deep, with massive drifts for riding into and falling off. From end of October to end of February.
I LOVE SNOOOOOOW.
Though, last year was a wee bit too much snow, wasteful- not to mention making it hard to get anywhere to ride, and making so many trails impassable.
The colder and snowier the better as far as I'm concerned. Every time it happens my mountain bike mileage goes up, 'cause I love it!
yes please....
the farmer has cleared his crop of sweetcorn and there is now a 5kmx6km uninterrupted stretch of pancake flat field, devoid of hedges, pylons and road that is waiting to be cut up by me, the snow board and my kite.
sod work. sod the buses, the trains and the schools (however, i'm in bavaria so they'll all work). i get to go skimming across virgin snow unused by anyone other than the morons with their cross-country skis.
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UK Powder Days, kicker sessions and having a 4wd this year = 🙂
Getting stuck offshore, ferrying the GF to work and sheet ice cycle paths = 🙁
Alpin - how long does it take to pick up kite boarding on snow? Is it essential to have lessons like the aquatic kind? (for someone who can already snowboard)
No, 'cos some old people will get hurt and some will die. Also there'll be more potholes that'll spoil the Surrey roads even more.
Don't you mean a 'mentally [i]good[/i]' winter?
@ oliver.....
no need for lessons, but best to learn how to fly a kite whilst not attached to a board. and even when you do get onto a board best not to be on one that you can't bail from.
no need for lessons when kite surfing either. i managed it, but i had a lot of experience with a landboard on grassy fields and sand.
start with a smallish kite. ~3m squared and learn how it behaves in the wind. progress from there. don't forget to use safety gear - most importantly kite-killers; they'll stop the kite from flying off if you let go (you will let go when you get caught out).
I frigging love the cold, and I love snow. If it happens again I am definitely buying some XC skiis - sorry alpin 🙂
I have some brand spankers crampons, gimme the good sh*t!
Here's something to get you in the mood:
Yeah why not. If we're to have four seasons at least make them different from each other.
This is a photo from this morning at the Roundhouse Lodge I think, top of Whistler mountain. Kind of sad that bike season is coming to an end but if I manage to get a job and stay for winter, I think learning to snowboard will be awesome!
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me.
my studded bike tyres have cost around £20/ mile so far.
i get to go skimming across virgin snow unused by anyone other than the morons with their cross-country skis
and I get to XC ski across... no actually you're right - they are morons, as XC skiing on pancake flat fields is rubbish and clearly there are hilly alternatives nearby (I also own a snowboard and a biggish kite, but haven't managed to put the two together).
Really enjoyed all the snow last winter (even though i crashed my car) so yeah, bring it on!
(snow tyres on standby this year)
better get lots this year, need to play with the plough and gritter that has just been purchased for the farm quad, and the £££'s of pounds spent installing heat tracing cable in the gutters needs a good testing!
Thinking that we'll visit the USA family at Christmas this year instead of Thanksgiving - this should mean a good chance of proper snow and cold. Although one year in November, 2008 I think, it was -15 with 2ft of snow 🙂
Got 2 fatbikes, what's not to like about winter? 🙂
I love snow so bring it on. I rode my bike to work all last s=winter as usual - just fitted the studded tyres and thoroughly enjoyed overtaking all the cars on the ice and snow
Well Summers over, so as far as I'm concerned we can have a week or so of orange leaves (for the laydeez) then get on with snow till march.
Snowboard getting done up this week, awaiting new bc skis and boots, and I think im going to get some snowshoes as well. Bring it on, I love snow.
i like snow.i don't like freezing temperatures (bastid british gas rubbing their hands 😡 hmm eat or heat (did you see what i did there 😉 😡 another one for effect/damn you british gas DAMN YOU!
Maybe I'm getting old but last winter was too much of a good thing. The novelty wore off & I just wanted it to get warm again. A week or so is ok but after that it became a pain in the backside.
I remember last year, once it got to about -17 i could feel ice forming inside my nose.
No,
lived in Reading the last 3 years and the snow's been mental.
1st year wasn't so bad, lived close to work, just worked shorter days and took some holiday to compensate.
2nd winter was silly, much as I like riding round in the snow, having to ride 4 miles to work and back on solid frozen ice in the dark and -10 was just silly and resulted in a lot of crashing. The novelty of snow upto my ballsack in the fields on the way into town wore off after about a hundred meters and I realised I couldnt see where the lakes were on Whiteknights campus. Bit like russian roulette, but with frozen water and a commute to work in place of the bullet and gun.
3rd winter, digging the car out of the driveway was fun/novel the first day, after that it got reppetative.
I'd quite like a warm/dry one thankyouverymuch.
I love a proper winter. Bit of hardship, bit of fun. wish I lived closer to some proper hills though. I'd love to get out in the Lakes/Howgills on the splitboard. good snow cover, reasonable driving conditions and weekends never seem to co-incide!
I'm a yes man. Just bought winter tyres for the car too 😀
Last year was a pain in the bum cos we had to move house (self move) during the worst of it..
Shovelling four feet of snow from your new front door so that you can get the fridge freezer in is interesting.. nowhere near either our new place or our old place was high priority for snow clearing either so three weeks of driving on good hard compacted snow and ice was fun..
However.. I only got to ride a couple of times.. and my little boy was too young to appreciate it so I'd be happy for another hard winter..
brings out the 'war spirit' too which is nice..
I was talking to a homeless fella down the park yesterday, he didn't seem to keen on a mentally bad winter!
Yeah bring it on! Having new central heating installed next week and have sorted it so I can work from home if need be. Have some nice long hills near my house (which just happens to be in a blackspot for mobile reception) so I can easily get out for a quick snowboard session during the days when I'm snowed in.
my winter consists mainly of this........so i'm super excited!!!
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Just got the Polish Plumbers in reviving the central heating with a new boiler an whatnot, so yeah - bring it on! (You know what it's like when you get new kit)...
no thanks, my house is like an ice box when it's only a bit chilly outside.
No ta, last year in particular was a PITA for a whole host of reasons.
Yes please.
If we are going to have winter lets do it properly, 3ft of snow and blue skies is so much more fun than drizzle.
Rigid SS with 1.5 Conti Xcs is the way forward, even overtook the snowplough on the way to work last year (it's only as good as the car it's stuck behind :-))
Yes would like it to be off the scale this year. You meet a better class of rider on the winter trails and what doesn't kill you etc etc
Bring it on.
Yes. So long as it's loadsa powder in the alps, but the autobahn and airports remain unaffected, so I can get there to make use of it 🙂
Yeah, all you snow botherers enjoy yourself - don't worry about the homeless, less than able bodied, old people, poor people etc - just go out and have a frikkin good time eh.
And don't forget to crank your central heating up a notch or two and put on another organic herd assured merino base layer while your at it.........
..........bunch of King Canutes the lot of you 🙄
[i]Anyone else want a mentally bad winter[/i]
No, not really.
I'm now facing 10 weeks recovery from a crash.
Bits of me are broken.
NO BIKE FOR THIS YEAR, ARRRGGHHH !.
Suppose I can put up with it being cold, so long as its dry.
I was bloody freezing last year, but now I've got my damarts, bring it on. My Gran's not looking forward to it much though
And don't forget the farmers struggling to keep their beasts fed and alive.
Then there's the wildlife, little baby robins dying in the hedgerows.
And for those of us in Scotland they are blaming the harsh winters on an increase in midgie numbers
Yes, it looks pretty. Yes, it's fun for those of us who want to playu out in it.
But it's pretty sh*t for old people, those who can't afford to heat their houses, farmers, emergency services, wildlife, homeless.
So, on the whole, no. Well,, OK, maybe for a little bit....
One of the fat little ****ers followed me for miles through an Arctic wilderness aka mid-Wales last year. Every time I stopped, it fluttered down and stopped a few feet away. I gave it a bit of bread from my sandwiches, it just looked at the bread and then me like I was mad.little baby robins dying in the hedgerows
Eventually after about 10 miles I gave it a dried apricot and I never saw it again.
don't worry about the homeless, less than able bodied, old people, poor people etc
We're not exactly going to change anything by liking snow, are we? Well aware of those who are less fortunate, but that goes for all times of the year does it not?
Well aware of those who are less fortunate, but that goes for all times of the year does it not?
Would you rather be homeless in +15 degrees or -15 degrees?
Yes, so I have a proper excuse to buy some skis
no. a winter average of 13 - 16 degrees please and summer starting in early april.
tia
Hypocrites!
All that hand-wringing will keep you grumpy buggers warm while homeless people suffer!
We're not exactly going to change anything by liking snow, are we?
Exactly. Besides iDave was only asking about a mentally bad winter. The homeless only really suffer if it is a [i]physically [/i]bad winter.
I find 2 inches of snow is about the perfect mtbing thickness - it gives enough grip so you don't skid on the ice underneath, but is still thin enough to allow a reasonable turn of speed. So, I want a winter that gives a constant 2 inches of snow.
Where can you get cheapish snow tyres from?
I manage commuting most of the last winter apart from a few days when it was too icy
Yes please we only went out for 6 days in a 14 day period before xmas! was tough mind on the delivering days.Have a van now and in a bit of a hillier! location.
Ps but your xmas presents a month before please and ease the workload on the poor posties.
Down jacket, studded tyres, new winter cycling jacket. Bring. It.
A 940 millibar depression with 180+kmh wind speeds should take enough roofs off to remind people that greenhousing the planet and a higher energy atmosphere is not a good thing. Just so long as it follows the usual path across the UK and doesn't stray too far south.