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Snow

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  • #32
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    On the bike myself this morning, took a slide yesterday lunch time moving from one clinic to another. I stayed over in Dublin last night so it was only a 10k commute as opposed to my normal 80k.

    I'm not going to try that distance tomorrow so I got a lift home tonight and gave a pick up arranged for tomorrow morning. I will be moving around with work abit tomorrow, I'm just not trying the long commute at the moment.


  • #33
    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    Main roads are pretty okay, but my estate is stubbornly icy. I couldn't wheel the thing to the exit, but I will try tomorrow.


  • #34
    reece
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭reece


    took the bus home to lucan tonight. Roads were really bad. guy passes me on a bike wearing an L sign on his back. Legend.


  • #35
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    reece wrote: »
    took the bus home to lucan tonight. Roads were really bad. guy passes me on a bike wearing an L sign on his back. Legend.

    Ya big woman ya. Ah no thouhg, if ya dont feel safe then there's no point in chancing it.


  • #36
    Slidey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    I had a CR250 out on the snow 2 years ago.

    Even with full motocross tyres on it it was a handful. Had fun for half an hour but wouldn't like to have to travel anywhere like that


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  • #37
    reece
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭reece


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Ya big woman ya. Ah no thouhg, if ya dont feel safe then there's no point in chancing it.

    took about 9 months for the pain to fully go away from my last icey spill :).


  • #38
    jameshayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    I was actually shaking when I got home yesterday, I dont think i took a breath for the whole journey home, scary sh!t. Got off my bike in my garden then I nearly fell on my hole outside my front door!


  • #39
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Saw a snow plough on the N4 this morning :eek:


  • #40
    jameshayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Saw a snow plough on the N4 this morning :eek:

    That was no snow plough, that was yo mamma!



    /joking of course/


  • #41
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeLTHmh9apk



    VERY tempted to get a spare set of forks for the moped in the shed and get a welder to do somthing to them.


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  • #42
    jameshayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    weeder wrote: »

    VERY tempted to get a spare set of forks for the moped in the shed and get a welder to do somthing to them.

    Quality


  • #43
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Snowing heavily in Dublin for the last two hours or so :pac:


  • #44
    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    I'll be biking it ;)
    your name says it all really.


    /thread


  • #45
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    your name says it all really.


    /thread

    Thank you so much for you oh so valuable contribution to this thread.

    Twat.


  • #46
    Luckycharm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Luckycharm


    Have biked in every day so far - main roads are fine- secondary roads a bit dicey tonight could be interesting given the snow!!


  • #47
    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Thank you so much for you oh so valuable contribution to this thread.

    Twat.
    .......? its a lame joke. little harsh on your behalf..

    guess ill be much more valuable by saying dont ride in ice, its not really worth any of the possible consequences.


  • #48
    shrapnel222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    scootered home today. was one of the worst rides i've had to do in a long time. main roads are okay, but anything secondary was litterally sheet ice. had the feet to the sides all the time, and the back wheel was just shooting out on the sides at any sign of a gradient on the sides.

    glad to be home in one piece to be honest.


  • #49
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    I saw a few bikes out tonight in Dublin, don't know how they stayed upright! Saw a load of scooters around Rialto, and someone abandoned their bike on the nangor road, obviously didn't want to risk it.


  • #50
    GBX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,012 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Saw 2 up on a scooter this evening ... the roads were mental. I wouldnt trust anybody to get on the back of a scooter or bike. Ive left my bike locked up since the 26th.


  • #51
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    Lots of people cycling too, mental in this weather.


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  • #52
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Quint wrote: »
    I saw a few bikes out tonight in Dublin, don't know how they stayed upright! Saw a load of scooters around Rialto, and someone abandoned their bike on the nangor road, obviously didn't want to risk it.

    Both feet down, supermoto style that how I did it :p


  • #53
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Both feet down, supermoto style that how I did it :p

    Saw a bloke doing that yesterday on the ice, he was driving a big enough bike. He looked very nervous doing a right hand turn, but he made it


  • #54
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Thank you so much for you oh so valuable contribution to this thread.

    Twat.

    Why sign your own post off like that? Can we refer to you as it in the future? Like good old 'cept.


  • #55
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    This is what we need for the snow:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNYhl4BCh98


  • #56
    yogidc26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭yogidc26


    Quint wrote: »
    This is what we need for the snow:

    Class got to get a set of them


  • #57
    madrab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    cool!


  • #58
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Seriously guys I cannot believe people are considering going out in this weather, its utter madness. Luckily I've got a car to fall back on - but even if I did not I would be making alternative arrangements. It's just not worth risking taking a fall, ruining your bike and possibly breaking a limb or getting badly injured. Unless you have absolutely no other option I would not take the bike out. I've been driving the car a lot over the last week and even with 4 wheels its vicious in places. Especially this morning when a fresh layer of snow was dumped. Seriously, don't do anything you might regret.


  • #59
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I'm itching to take the Zed out but there's no hope in this weather.

    Its just not worth the hassle.


  • #60
    Dorsanty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Dorsanty


    Forecast on sky news now saying all next week will be same conditions. :mad: :confused:

    Where's the evil genius with the weather machine when you need one?


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  • #61
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Zascar wrote: »
    Seriously guys I cannot believe people are considering going out in this weather, its utter madness. Luckily I've got a car to fall back on - but even if I did not I would be making alternative arrangements. It's just not worth risking taking a fall, ruining your bike and possibly breaking a limb or getting badly injured. Unless you have absolutely no other option I would not take the bike out. I've been driving the car a lot over the last week and even with 4 wheels its vicious in places. Especially this morning when a fresh layer of snow was dumped. Seriously, don't do anything you might regret.

    Took the bike home from work Wednesday evening, the M50 and N4 was starting to form sheet ice and I had to use both feet to keep the bike up anytime I had to brake or change direction. I'd have no problem taking the bike out if the roads were gritted, but at the moment it's a lottery whether the roads are gritted or not.


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