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Just Zis Guy
Guest
I wondered for a while if I should have changed bikes - a recumbent with slick tyres is not the
obvious choice for snowbound commuting - but in the end I'm glad I tok the bent because when I did
come off it didn't hurt at all
Not too bad riding along the middle of the road where the snow was undisturbed (traffic jams in both
directions, of course), but I pulled into the wheel tracks at one point and realised that the
"water" on the road was actually ice!
The worst bits were on the tops of the hills between Reading and Henley. Several cars came off the
road. I went through Dunsden and Binfield on the bus route because there was lots of grit and not
too many cars - it wasn't too bad, actually, but I'm a bit concerned about the ride home. Maybe I'll
leave a bit early.
It took an hour to get here, mainly because I wasn't doing more than 10mph most of the time (better
safe than sorry). Two colleagues are still not here - trains and MDGs are no good in the snow,
apparently
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Guy
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I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#103 http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#104
obvious choice for snowbound commuting - but in the end I'm glad I tok the bent because when I did
come off it didn't hurt at all
Not too bad riding along the middle of the road where the snow was undisturbed (traffic jams in both
directions, of course), but I pulled into the wheel tracks at one point and realised that the
"water" on the road was actually ice!
The worst bits were on the tops of the hills between Reading and Henley. Several cars came off the
road. I went through Dunsden and Binfield on the bus route because there was lots of grit and not
too many cars - it wasn't too bad, actually, but I'm a bit concerned about the ride home. Maybe I'll
leave a bit early.
It took an hour to get here, mainly because I wasn't doing more than 10mph most of the time (better
safe than sorry). Two colleagues are still not here - trains and MDGs are no good in the snow,
apparently
--
Guy
===
I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#103 http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#104