winter rocks, scarves hats, ruby noses, wolly hats, coming in from the cold. Getting the countryside to yourself, feeling like you’ve really earned your cake.

lush 8)

Descent surf 😉

Comfort food and those fresh rides where the ground’s frozen solid but isn’t slushy or slippy. The tea/cake after a ride.

Nothing.

No mate.. West Pennine moors… Gods own country!

Doh!

It did look like a trail i used to ride in the Pentlands. From the top of the hill like…..

My birthday – 20th of December.

Christmas – particularly I now have young children.

I hate everything else.

I like when I set off for work at 5.30am and I’m the first person breaking the surface of a fresh fall , and smacking into rocks you can’t see cos they’re covered 😀

Nice ales, roaring fires, the possibility of snow, frozen ground: it’s all good.

Indeed, this whole thread is making me miss Canada, to be honest.

It’s cold, it’s wet, it goes dark at lunchtime, snow goes a funny brown colour, Christmas lasts for 2 months. What’s not to like?

fires and pubs
hot choclit
time to ride
winter rides
winter bivvying

Winters rubbish.

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The inner laughter I have driving past people in RWD cars in my 4×4.

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – Member

The inner laughter I have driving past people in RWD cars in my 4×4.

I hate to sound smug, but a good driver would be able to handle winter in either vehicle.

Not that I’m dissing 4x4s, or your driving skills. 😉

Nothing good about winter. If I was rich enough I’d live somewhere warmer for 6 months of the year.

going sideways more

Not having to fill your fridge with lager – you can use your conservatory/shed/garage to keep it super chilled 🙂

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superfli – Member

Not having to fill your fridge with lager – you can use your conservatory/shed/garage to keep it super chilled

You drink lager in winter? I can’t even imagine. Wouldn’t that be like watching daytime tv or something?

I hate to sound smug, but a good driver would be able to handle winter in either vehicle.

Not that I’m dissing 4x4s, or your driving skills.

Ignoring the fact that I was being facetious 😉 no, they wouldn’t, not in the Peak District at least.

I will enjoy winter this year as I am not going to be driving a lorry around in it for the first time in quite a few years.

That and stew.

Long, steady, cold miles.

Looking forward to this winter. A lot.

Riding in snow- crashing your brains out and not even getting a bruise
Not being too hot all the time on climbs
Sledging
When the ground freezes and all of a sudden you’re 10% faster than normal
The sound of snow
Riding through the sunset
Night riding without having to stay up past bedtime
Standing under streetlights and watching snowflakes
Getting in from a cold one and having a hot Frijj. MMMMMMM

And that amazing childlike joy of waking up after it snows and seeing the whole world made new.

Snow.

Agree with most of the above. Can’t see why anyone wouldn’t like winter.

bikebouy – Member
Cold Clear Rides Man.

Can’t beat them for crispyness and hot air breathing heavy in the mornings. Open forests devoid of fauna, unspoilt views through the trees. Up on the hills it’s like God has dusted the land with sugar and we’re laying tracks through the virgin frost exposing the fact to the world….

We’re the only ones out playing.

Pure poetry right there 🙂

As previously discussed, if you’re too hard up to pay fuel bills then you probably wouldn’t enjoy it much.

Some great pics on this thread guys, great pics!

Skiing

Christmas in the Alps

Cranking up the logburner until it’s a dull red colour

Getting some space back on the train as the summer cyclists give up until April

Squeaky snow

I like:

The fact that we have distinct seasons, all with their own characteristics (good and bad)
Crisp, cold morning rides
No flying things
No nettles/ferns etc
Amazing views not available in summer when trees are full of leaves.
Trails are quieter
The feeling you’re “earning” your dry/dusty summer rides
Frozen trails rock

Errr, and some other stuff.

Not needing a fence to stop your bike from falling over…

..for everything else, theres Mastercard.

The inner laughter I have driving past people in RWD cars in my 4×4.

Some 20+ years ago during a particularly white winter, my Mk11 Escort was the only car to get out of the valley we lived in, on the list of failed attempts were Saabs and 4X4s, was yours one of them?

Ha ….living in sydney and it being summer!!!! 8)

I can barely afford the pointless debt-fest that is Christmas without my Energy bill doubling.

Leaving for work in the dark, spending all day away from a window and coming home in the dark is depressing

The dogs get covered in crap all the time

That said, I love sliding my bike around in mud so its all good

edit. Riding across some-beacon-or-other at midnight when it is clear and -5 deg is awesome

Nothing. All your snowy pics have of course reminded me that the white stuff is pretty cool but you’re all forgetting that it tends (for most of us) to be 2 or 3 days at most, preceded and followed by months of grim awful weather. The variety of weather in this country is amazing just a pity it’s not clearly defined and goes with the appropriate seasons.

Looking forward to dry cold days on the road and very cold frozen hardpacked trails

anticipating 6months of wind, rain and darkness.

And that amazing childlike joy of waking up after it snows and seeing the whole world made new.

Hit the nail on the head there.

Leaving for work in the dark, spending all day away from a window and coming home in the dark is depressing

True- i worked in the bikehut at my local Halfords (in the roof), no windows and i missed basically a few months of daylight. Except days off, but then you just tend to stay in bed because youre absolutely Cream Crackered.

Some lovely pics here- keep em coming!

I’ve got a couple that add a warm glow to winter:

Of course winters crap when it’s hosing it down with rain, but think of glorious mud:

After moving north I’m quite dissapointed that the summer evening rides don’t become night rides in the Winter.

WTF is wrong with you people!

Thankfully the area’s busy enough that you can turn up and bump into someone/a group to tag allong with for a blast accross the moor.

A winters calling..

O winter O winter white
The song of snowfall free
A chilling coldness will not abide
deep in frosty liberty

These ridin’ wander days ahead
On trial or road dependant on tread,
When autumn succumbs to winters bled
A yellow brownish hue falls dead.

Cold frames tingle upon your knees,
And saddle creaks between your cheeks,
Squealing discs caked in frozen mud,
Fall fiercely upon ground with thud.

Winters night rides, a starry affair
Takes the rider into it’s dark damp lair
In timeless tunnels of wooded light
Where branches snap out of sight.

Breathing deeply exhaling sudden breath,
Clouds trial behind the riders path,
With ears a cold as burning snow,
And streaming eyes too cold to know.

For what lays ahead on crunchy trail,
Is winters secret yet defiled,
Sudden stops with fingers tight,
Ends within a winters night.

What more have I to say?
For your snow is not yet falling
Though distance winds and forming frosts
Keep winter riders glowing.

A winters calling..

Nice- I can imagine that going along with a Guiness advert and some muddy mountain bike suffering in black and white!

Dont forget everybody- clocks go back tomorrow……