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My wife had Cross Climate’s fitted last month. Got to use them properly on Saturday – miles better than standard tyres in the snow – you just stopped, and started like there was none !
I was waiting for that comment. You will have still slid it was an ice sheet underneath the snow.
Only the little red car got it right. No brakes or little braking and keep going. Only danger is that it can go all very very wrong.
I often wish they wouldnt grit roads before snow. All that happens is that the salt melts the falling snow, the melting snow washes away the grit, the water then freezes and snow falls on top.
Normal tyres will work just fine on snow if people learn how to drive on snow
I’ve got a good an inch in the back
😯
Normal tyres will work just fine on snow if people learn how to drive on snow
I was waiting for that comment ;->
No brakes or little braking and keep going.
And if there's a T junction at the bottom of the hill......?
Have you driven on snow on winter tyres...it really is night and day difference.
Have you driven on snow on winter tyres…it really is night and day difference.
i agree but this wasnt snow it was an ice sheet covered by snow. You would only get grip with spikes.
Please, pray for London… 🤭
I have just cleared our cul-de-sac with the neighbours in Dunblane: 18cm on the bins, using the ruler of truth.
Seems 'our' A9 junction is the poster child / images of the chaos from BBC today.
Surprisingly little snow when I was over at Corrour Station yesterday ( at least compared with Speyside).
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Dropped my skis off at the workshop for some repair work, so best you all prepare for the greatest snowmaggedon we've ever seen. Until about lunchtime on Weds when I pick them up.
bit of snow last night north of glasgow. then it sleeted, then rain. snow is still here but it's wet mushy slush.
made getting back up my drive from the burger king lunch run a bit difficult.
hard times..
I was waiting for that comment. You will have still slid it was an ice sheet underneath the snow.
IF you've driven with winter or all season tyres you'd know that they work pretty well on ice. The sipes cut into the blocks grip the ice as the tyre deforms with thousands of sharp little edges. It's not as good as spikes, but a thousand miles away from summer tyres.
That's the closest I've been to getting stuck in the snow for a long time.
We left friends in Bridge of Allan in rain.
By the time we got to the station it was white, by Kier roundabout it was pretty spicy visibility and depth, by our A9 turn the car was struggling to move at all...
(This is a 3 mile journey)
Not quite the Millennium Falcon...Mair speed required!
Loch Morlich was a giant infinity pool for our NYD dip.
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Snowing in the Derbyshire Dales lowlands. Only a light covering so far though
We were not on the yellow area for snow and ice today - woke up to 3cm of fluffy, cold snow over hard frozen ice...
Tomorrow, with more yellow warnings of snow and ice not over us, could be 'interesting'....
Commute to work in Wester Ross was definitely fat bike territory today.
We got a dusting last night, lovely, went out for a walk at 4am just in case it had melted by morning. It hadn't, but it's all turned into hilariously deadly ice, the sort that you can't even really see.
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I had to smash a channel through the ice to reach the only wet patch at Loch Morlich this afternoon.
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Had to sweep the snow off the car this morning (North Tyneside of all places 😱). Then again, it's only snowed because I've travelled to Glasgow today for work. When I have to travel you can guarantee 'weather issues'. I should be banned from travelling (🙏🙏) 😂😂
@Drac where is that? looks fabulous
@scotroutes stop bloody showing off - people will call you an Alpha 😜
Northumberland. The snow just makes it look good, it’s shit really
An Alpha? Far from it. I only went in at the insistence of Mrs S, who hasn't been dipping in a week!
You can’t be Alpha if you were willing to not avoid the wet patch.
I only went in at the insistence of Mrs S, who hasn’t been dipping in a week!
Have you checked your life insurance recently......?
it’s shit really
Can confirm. Nothing to see here...
Beast from the East V2?
https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2023/02/07/are-we-expecting-a-sudden-stratospheric-warming/
Sorry ,that's my fault,I have been telling everyone it's warming up 😆 🤣
Covered at lot of ground in that long range forecast, you can’t really go wrong if you include most possibilities. Proper hedged their bets with:
The current extended range forecast for mid-February suggests that the most likely scenario is for broadly changeable weather with westerly conditions and influxes of wind and rain at times, particularly in the northwest. Temperatures are likely to be around average through mid-February
They should have said “yes, we expect weather for February”
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Looks like some cold weather incoming this week - apparently Scotland due a couple of days of snow next weekend.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64848688
We had a couple of flurries yesterday down by Loch Ericht. Watching this week with interest though. That -10C looks to be hitting us midweek.
Got snowed on very briefly on Dartmoor this afternoon.
We had a couple of flurries yesterday down by Loch Ericht. Watching this week with interest though. That -10C looks to be hitting us midweek.
So, this happened...
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Dusting over the tops on Rum, Skye and over about 800m on Ben More - we’ll see what the morning brings
Not worried about getting to aviemore on Wed for a couple of days. A bit concerned about the drive back on Sat throught the lakes and Midlands though.
It's my fault. I took the ice tyres off my commute bike last week, and this weekend built some wheels up from a pair of mint Deore XT M737 hubs, which the summer tyres are now on. Ice tyres on old wheels.
Well it’s snowing in Dukestown this morning
Postie round in Wester Ross just going to be tricky today. 2-3 inches came down overnight, snow showers forecast for the whole day. Perhaps I should swap the van fir a fat bike?
Perhaps I should swap the van fir a fat bike?
Coolest postie ever....
Predicted high winds and snowfall today/tonight here in Uppsala. This would be either first or second false spring. Only three more to go before real spring.
My postie van is currently sporting 2 bald front tyres (and another week before they replace them) and too far/big load for my fatbike. Snow forecast for later when I’m attempting to drive over the hill road with lots of hairpins.
@dovebiker managed to get all season tyres fitted to my van, after a 5 year battle.
I have a trailer for the fat bike, but doing the full round (70 miles) could be a struggle.