Hi-ho,
Ok, so I've been offline for a while, 'cause I moved to Switzerland.
Anyway, I rode to work yesterday in some unseasonally late snow,
(actually I don't know if it's unseasonal or not, but hey, it's Spring).
I was very excited at first, I've only been in "falling" snow once before
when I was kid, and (in my limited experience) it seem to be snowing
really heavily. Riding on the trike it was all piling up on my belly,
but it was easily brushed off though. The big problem was that snow
really stings when it gets in your eyes! Next time I'll wear the
sunglasses with the clear lenses (so they *are* good for something), but
I think by the time I got to work my face would have frozen in a
permanent squint.
The other problem was that about 2km out from work, the p*ncture f*iry
paid me a visit. There was nothing for it but to push the trike the last
little bit, I guess I could have fixed it right there on the bike-path,
but I um, sort of, didn't bring a p*ncture repair kit, or tyre levers...
or a pump. By the time I'd trudged to work, all the snow had stuck to me
and piled up on my "knob-head" brand beanie, must have looked like some
kind of yeti blown down from the hills. It was keenly aparent that *I*
was the only one riding/walking to work today. Maybe I've broken some
other cultural taboo, perhaps you're not supposed to walk in the snow to
work.
The sun came out a bit later, melted all the snow by lunchtime. I
managed to get some tyre-levers and repair-kit from the shop across the
street from work, but I had to beg the fishwife to bring me in a pump.
Anyway, that's about it from my end.
cheersbigears,
-kt
PS> we've updated our warm-showers entry, if anyone's interested.