Who’s been out riding in the snow then? :D

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Stopped by 2m drifts a whole 6km done.

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Beautiful out there…

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Just when I thought I could post pictures it all goes Base over apex.

Just paste the link straight into the post window. The rest automagically happens.

torrential rain in west Devon now. 🙁

22 miles in the Warwickshire Alps yesterday with a group. Awesome fun.

I was on my fatbike and crashed I’d say 6 times trying to push in Singletrack and the front wheel sledging off away from me. Otb into a big drift too. 🙂

Rlscc snowy March 2018 ride by kayak23[/url], on Flickr

Rlscc snowy March 2018 ride by kayak23[/url], on Flickr

Today looks crap though. Trails will be far too soggy, roads still a slushy mess with nowhere to ride it be passed.. and raining.

Managed two commutes in and out of Edinburgh, one pre-‘Red’ warning and one during the middle of it. Conditions were brilliant, probably the only time a 17km mostly flat tarmac commute will feel epic. Spindrift blowing across the road and forming plumes over the top of field walls, headwinds to stop you dead in your tracks, and of course the tailwinds to match on the way home.

Managed a good 50km on the bike again yesterday just following my nose along roads that looked open. The compacted snow that had been driven over a few times made for brilliant riding with 40psi in my 32mm slicks, but as it warmed up slightly things started getting a little treacherous and soft in places, one silly wee fall near the end when I panic braked for a car that was crawling towards me in the distance, but otherwise all good.

Legs feel heavier now than after any number of longer faster rides!

Can’t be arsed trying to figure out posting imgur pics, imagine a pink bike on various snowy backgrounds…

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Snowy singletrack…

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Wet, cold and hard work this morning. The dog loved every minute, as did the #shandcycles #bahookie. The fantastic bue really popps in this light. Thanks @shandcycles & @frazchops7 for making my dream bike.

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Went today. Wet feet now.

Above Macc Forest this morning…

Made it upto the Quantocks today, there’s a road underneath this lot. The trails weren’t as bad but I’d had enough of pedalling and not going anywhere yesterday!

Not been out for 4.5 weeks due to sodding man flu and various commitments.  Had hoped to escape when the snow first arrived but this shifty cough/cold made a return and has wiped me out a second time within a month.  Properly *%+^ed off.

Immense fun and the Stache did really well even in the puffy stuff.

in the last photo, the snow is over a foot deep and the Stache is sinking only about 3 inches into it with tyres at 8psi.

Got out this morning for a second snowy ride. Was great at first (apart from the traction issues where people had been walking – can’t remember another ride where I spent as much time sideways) but as the morning wore on it just got dirtier, softer and slushier. Was horrible by the end of the ride. Hopefully this rain we now have will have got rid of it all by morning…

Headed West to Conwy as Macc forest has loads of trees down, Charity and the likes are just level with snow and not been Conwy for a while.

was a tough one with a few bits of pushing through the snow, but 99% rideable so well worth the trip. Found a little snow cave someone had built just after the YH @ Rowen too

Carlos

@colournoise – it was a nightmare even on the fat-bike. The thawing slush was unbelievably awful.

Had great fun 🙂 The Snow had an ice crust on it by the time I got out. In places it stopped you dead, and going downhill I was actually worried it might slash the sidewalls!

Where some keen/idiotic 4x4ers had been out to lay tracks I got quite good traction.

At one point on a downhill the ice was thick enough to ride on top of the snow. That was interesting at 20mph+

Slushy splooshie murky mess

Managed to get a quick local 16 miler in on Saturday morning before it melted. First ever proper snow ride for me, loved it, was tough riding in fresh stuff and waist high drifts at times meant a bit of hike n bike, but great fun, no where near as sketchy as I thought it would be, such a shame this happens so rarely in the UK.

A bit late to the show but still plenty of snow about in Kielder Forest..unfortunately it is melting which made the going a bit of a slog ..

20180307_125820[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

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Took a flask & managed to get my ginger nuts out ..

20180307_133345[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE