[Closed] Travel choas this Friday

jota180 - Member

hmmm - from north london to east london with the family to see the bike show - Train or 4 x 4.......?

London? in the snow?
I thought the accepted way was to get into you BMW [or other rear wheel drive chariot] and just put your foot down until it wheel spins to a standstill

Not with he kids in the car. Seriously though the youngest is three months so I don't want us to be standing on station platorms in the cold, when, if I have to have a slow journey home at least it'll be in a warm Kuga-box. My route is main road north circ / a10 so it'll be fine just perhaps a little busy.

This. Why travel if it can be avoided?

I like snow and I have a mountain bike.

I'm a bit disappointed that Glasgow will probably avoid any significant snow

It was a laugh in winter 2010 riding to work on my MTB

The first few days when the snow was still fresh I was easily the fastest thing on the road

Many years ago when I had the Landy I had my one and only vindication of the need for a 4x4... turned off the M65 at Hapton to go north up the A56, it climbs a long long gentle hill about 500 feet over Hambledon Hill before dropping down to Rossendale. The left hand lane was choked solid with cars going nowhere and the RH lane was virgin snow about 4" deep. What else could I do? I drove for about 3 miles up the hill and over to Rising Bridge past hundreds of stopped cars, a big bow wave of wet snow shooting up and spraying them all... good it was!

No Landy now but tomorrow I'll leave home at 6.30 and take Mrs Gti's car with the Avon Ice Touring tyres on it... will probably get to work just as they send out the text telling employees not to bother coming in....

Already pre-emptively working from home. No point battling with the car driving proles, and while I could cycle in just fine, we keep our bikes indoors and there may be a problem with that 🙂

I'll be driving back from Bristol to Derbyshire tomorrow. I should be ok in the pick-up. Will be interesting to see how many chuck a snow day back home when they have to go 2 miles and I manage to make the 160 mile journey.

You think you've got it bad...

We were meant to be riding Llandegla Saturday morning. Looking at the weather forecast, I can't see that happening!

Looking at the forecast it'll be thermals + MTB for me. Looks like getting in will be OK, but getting home will be a nightmare, and there is no way I'm spending friday afternoon stuck in work when I could be out having fun on my bike (and feeling smug and being the fastest thing on the road :-))

Meant to be collecting car from garage tomorrow morning, then driving down to Heathrow to head off to Germany. At this rate I doubt I'll get it out of their car park!

Continuous snow forecast all day tomorrow in Bucks.

The Pinkster - Member
WFH today and looks like I might be tomorrow as well because it's already snowing in South Cheshire

Not heavy, more like the snow version of drizzle, but it's a start.

Never mind, hopefully it'll be back and better tomorrow. Thinking of heading to Hanchurch Woods on Saturday, which is always fun in the snow. 😀

I won't be able to sleep tonight. So excited about the possibility of snow. Ice Spikers on. All set. Please please please.
Ps my commute is 3 miles off road.

We were meant to be riding Llandegla Saturday morning. Looking at the weather forecast, I can't see that happening!

You should ride Gisburn instead then - they grit the trails there 😉

I'm up with the sparras tomorrow to fly London to Glasgow for a pitch.
Hoping the trip will provide some travel-delay anecdotes so I can contribute to the office banter..... not.

Travel Chaos?

What, like normal chaos, only smaller, and magnetic?

Hmmm, due to fly back from Amsterdam to Heathrow tomorrow. I bet Schiphol will be working just fine and Heathrow will grind to a halt with 2cm of snow...

my commute is 3 miles off road.

3 miles or under I'd probably just walk to be honest.

Undoubtedly I will be at the tender mercies of TfL and their general uselessness tomorrow. I look forward to waiting for a train with 3 million others for half an hour to get trapped underground for no obvious reason, eventually to get into work and then have a laughably pathetic chance of getting home again (it is Friday after all).

WfH is a non-starter generally here.

3 miles or under I'd probably just walk to be honest.

If I lived that close to work I would have no choice, medical issues aside 😆

Doing the sensible thing, working from home on staff appraisals 😥

Doing the sensible thing, working from home on staff appraisals

Perfect - you can enjoy a few cans of Stella before allowing your creative side to express itself.

No not a Brit part one just got it from the local rad specialist
And yes it does have the correct red coolant for a td5

Spoke to them today and they seemed happy to repair or replace it as long its not from stuff bashing into it

Woohoo! It's started again!!!

Yes it has . Traffics gone crazy

GrahamS - looks like there were some terrible accidents there - the tyre tracks and foot tracks all collide with one another 😉

I'll be ok on my Cross commuter, 80% car free route, if it really snows I could break out the MTB, but it's Cambridge, it'll be a dusting at most.

Jamie - Member

I don't know about getting home though

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I believe last time that was tried it ended badly........

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students eh!

I've recently come back from Austria where despite heavy snowfall for 3 days non stop, life went on as normal. Nearly everyone drives normal two wheel drive cars, just with winter tyres.

Austrian guy on the plane said he only ever had one day off school because of snow, and that was because 2.5 metres fell then it started raining heavily, so schoolkids were drafted in to help the army clear snow off roofs so they didn't collapse.

UK seems a joke in comparison.

Red warning from the met for some areas now!

UK seems a joke in comparison.

Maybe we do not have the cold weather infrastructure a country like Austria has. What with having, historically at any rate, a different climate to them?

I shall be out ferrying staff from the station to the office and back again afterwards in this:

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then, if there's enough snow at the weekend we will use it for uplifts and go snowboarding. 😀

Red warning from the met for some areas now!

I've always avoided yellow snow, but red!!?? Has someone got the machete out?

Got Michelin Premacy Alpins on my Passat .
Chains in the boot as well incase it is more than forcast .

Might put the skis in and ski on Butser hill on the way home if the A3 isnt blocked.
Intend on using B roads as they dont get littered with stuck cars driven by tools who think bouncing off the limiter is going to get traction.

I really hope that this comes to nothing and there's just a few flakes. We're moving house 200 miles away, currently trying to plot the best route there.

Cheers_drive, m5, m6 and a14 I reckon, but traffic check them all first. Cambridge being generally drier shouldn't get too muc of the whites stuff. Good luck with the move.

My Swansea Brecon commute is going to be interesting in the morning.

Just fitted Ice Spikers on the commuter.