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5 inches of snow landed overnight, but I'm doing overtime at work today so wont be able to make anything of it be fore it melts and floods us all out!
Has anyone tried cycling in 2-3” of new snow?
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Me standing on a drift up near Stamford
My van is below, that was supposed to be my route back home
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Narrow tyres, even road racing tyres, cut through and can grip quite well on *fresh* snow but you get tramlining, which is very unpleasant. Wide tyres don't tramline as much (they're more likely to float on top of the snow) but can be very hard work since you're pushing tons of snow out of the way.
A day or so later, on ice or compacted snow (e.g. on a psyclepath where it's been walked on) you really need studded tyres. The ones I made myself back in 2010 from a pair of Schwalbe CX tyres and a lot of 3/8" woodscrews through the knobbles were incredible, even on sheet black ice and flights of steps, but the screw heads will pinch and puncture the inner tube unless you use tyre liner/tuffy tape. I have Nokian Hakkapeliittas on a spare bike these days. They are noisy on bare tarmac - sometimes I take that bike just as insurance - but the carbide studs don't wear badly.
Narrow tyres, even road racing tyres, cut through and can grip quite well on *fresh* snow but you get tramlining, which is very unpleasant. Wide tyres don't tramline as much (they're more likely to float on top of the snow) but can be very hard work since you're pushing tons of snow out of the way.
A day or so later, on ice or compacted snow (e.g. on a psyclepath where it's been walked on) you really need studded tyres. The ones I made myself back in 2010 from a pair of Schwalbe CX tyres and a lot of 3/8" woodscrews through the knobbles were incredible, even on sheet black ice and flights of steps, but the screw heads will pinch and puncture the inner tube unless you use tyre liner/tuffy tape. I have Nokian Hakkapeliittas on a spare bike these days. They are noisy on bare tarmac - sometimes I take that bike just as insurance - but the carbide studs don't wear badly.
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2010 and then 2012 (at the RB nationals condition) was the last time I had proper snow.
Had a cm or two here but that went quickly and the road have been bone dry for a day now.
Come to Hull, where we didn't have any proper fun in the snow so far as we've not really had any.
2010 in the first few hours before it got proper deep. (Nov/Dec)
2012 (that was 23rd March, so don't believe anything about this been not normal for this time of year, it used to snow way back in the early 90s and 80s too ;-)
Sorry pics not working
2010 and then 2012 (at the RB nationals condition) was the last time I had proper snow.
Had a cm or two here but that went quickly and the road have been bone dry for a day now.
Come to Hull, where we didn't have any proper fun in the snow so far as we've not really had any.
2010 in the first few hours before it got proper deep. (Nov/Dec)
2012 (that was 23rd March, so don't believe anything about this been not normal for this time of year, it used to snow way back in the early 90s and 80s too ;-)
Sorry pics not working
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Were there any cows stuck in it?legrandefromage":3765nylh said:Me standing on a drift up near Stamford
My van is below, that was supposed to be my route back home
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