Riding out tonight in potentially minus 8+ deg….trails will be hard & fast!… anyone else out??!

yes for sure cant miss the imitation dryness

if riding home counts, then yeah 😀

Getting foggy here,hope not foggy up in the lincs wolds later or a waste of time?

Me 🙂

I MUST remember to find my winter gloves this time too as it’s going to be a chilly one – I keep on forgetting until i’m actually mid-ride and my hands are freezing!

I am looking forward to a non-muddy ride though!

….hot yorkshire tea in bladder me thinks….

Wish I could, but knackered back means i can’t 🙁

Yup! Same as last night, Monday night and Sunday! Ride planned tomorrow night as well. My legs are getting a bit wobbly…

Riding home, but adding in a couple of extra loops, dont mind cold and dry weather, its the wet weather I hate.

Nah, Beavers tonight.
Have a couple of miles commute on the cargobike though, carrying two children soon warms you up.

Folk cant believe that even in this cold my lads prefer the bike to the car…!!!

Did this last night… 🙂

IMAG0002 by pten2106, on Flickr

Was out last night it was fricken cold on the Chase despite the weather forecast claiming it was a mere -2

Good luck if you’re out tonight

Yep, I reckon I’d be a fool to miss this opportunity to not get muddy. Shame I didn’t bother washing my bike from last time out 😆

Leg still unrideable from a spot of crash-action on Sunday… Hopefully will ride tomorrow 🙂

EDIT – peak district trails were riding really really well at the weekend nice and firm before the sun melted the top surface. Looking forward to a few hard trails 🙂

rocketman, where on the Chase ?
Passed a few brave souls over Sherbrook Valley way.

Ha tortoise!…. i always wash bike after claggy rides bt didnt last wk as tht a waste of time…..wish had done now too!……the snow should clean it a bit tho?

Yup, my bikes still covered in mud too from the weekend….

Never mind, hopefully it’ll freeze quickly and then fall off 🙂

Gotta get home somehow.

rocketman, where on the Chase ? Passed a few brave souls over Sherbrook Valley way.

*waves*
yup stayed over the North side last night. It was cold coming back down Sherbrook eh?

I am but I’ll have a horse to keep me warm.

Isn’t “minus 8+ degrees” a bit of an oxymoron?

Wots a moron?

I am out tonight, it’s just the road bits that will be a bit testy, to say the least. Good luck all.

Hoping too. Went out Sunday night and had Snow all over the forks and my helmet by the time we got back my mates.

Gears weren’t working too well either.

At least we could turn the lights off on the trails due to the snow 😀

looks like a temperate -1 for the GMBC club run, so summer kit 😛

At what temperature does the fluid in hydraulic brakes freeze?

At what temperature does the fluid in hydraulic brakes freeze?

Somewhere around -50C

edit – for DOT 4. DOT 5.1 is lower. Not sure about mineral oil…

At what temperature does the fluid in hydraulic brakes freeze?

Was fine for me at -15 in December 2010

but air pressure in shocks will be way down

At what temperature does the fluid in hydraulic brakes freeze?

Somewhere around -50Cyou should be more worried about what temp do calliper seals fail. only happened to me once but I’m still angry about it

oh and back on topic: maybe

Rode last night so night off tonight back on it tomorrow evening!
20 miles on lots of cheeky snow bound paths in -8 rocked up at the pub for a beer but lost track of time they had called last orders!!
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/262554630

408513_10151436430556474_1851202000_n by Richard Munro, on Flickr

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What about tubeless milkies?…. will it be frozen solid at -8deg?
Great pics!…. will post mine tomo!… pub….ye snds good!:)

I dunno wether to play it safe and just have a blast up the entire length of the canal tonight rather than some road downhills where I might come a cropper. It’s ok on the straight but as soon as there’s any turn…wooooshhhhhh. Came off on on ice once at the end of my road doing about 2 mph, can only think at 30 odd down a large hill I like to traverse might be considerably worse.

Yep, out in the Peak District starting off at The Grouse Inn near Froggatt.

Just sorted out some old ski-glove liners to try inside the bike gloves, might help stave off the finger pain 🙂

Will be setting off in 1/2 an hour for the ride home. Rear gear cable froze coming in this morning, fed some WD40 into it now so hopefully no freezy on the way home. Looking forward to a nice warm shower later 8)

Longridge Fell tonight. Very few days when it’s anything more than a boggy mess. 🙂

Still haven’t recovered the feeling in one of my fingertips from the last ride 😳

I’m tempted to MTFU and ride through the pain…!

I’m out either tonight or tomorrow night around Haldon. Weather has been quite good here in south devon, Hope it lasts.

Just done a couple of short local loops as the sun went down. About 5 cm snow on the ground so actually great grip and riding. Some of the lanes are treacherous though – black ice. Temp rose to 0 at about 1.30pm, now plummeting again, approx -6 or -7 now. Went down to about -12 last night.

Had to buy a lighter to thaw my lock at the station this morning. Heading out for the first non-muddy ride in living memory tonight (I hope). Yee-haw!

Enjoyed a crisp 8mile commute home via the canal