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SNOW AND ICE 2016/2017

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    #62
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    .......ye can add a dash of Orange Snow to it now to spice it up.


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    #63
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    FFS! Just took the cross tyres off my bike and put slicks on. Oh well.


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    #64
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    With your CX skillz........no bother boss :)


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    #65
    The tax man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭The tax man


    DirkVoodoo wrote: »
    FFS! Just took the cross tyres off my bike and put slicks on. Oh well.
    Racing or not, you don't take the CX tyres off until CX season is over.(Sunday coming)
    It's akin to taking the Christmas tree down before the 6th. :)


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    #66
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Fian wrote:
    I will start with a disclaimer that I don't actually believe that this is true, it does make for an "interesting anecdote" though.

    I would rather think that Zappa had something more ordinary in mind ;-) but I've also heard of Siberian tribes where poorer folk used to gather richer people urine during festivities to get a secondhand high from hard to get mushrooms... :-)


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    #67
    thedudeinthehat
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭thedudeinthehat


    Riding to work here in Poland over last few weeks and have seen temps around -24 and lower , (with real feel touching -30.) Great adventures but started questioning it when front brake froze and had to scale a snow drift. I accept this is price we pay for super summer weather


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    #68
    Fian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Fian


    Seems snow/sleet/hail will extend to all areas this evening. Anyone know what to expect for dublin - wondering about whether i need to concentrate on getting out of work early this evening.


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    #69
    crosstownk
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    Fian wrote: »
    Seems snow/sleet/hail will extend to all areas this evening. Anyone know what to expect for dublin - wondering about whether i need to concentrate on getting out of work early this evening.

    The Met Éireann short range rainfall forecast indicates that Dublin will miss the worst of it and that showers will pass through somewhere between 7pm and 9pm.

    http://www.met.ie/forecasts/short-range.asp

    The wind will be more annoying than snow on my commute home. I hate the fupping wind.
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    #70
    Fian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Fian


    Accuweather now predicting snow in Dublin in 71 minutes from now - so just after 5:30.

    I think discretion will be the better part of valor for me and I will bolt for home at 5:00.


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    #71
    crosstownk
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    I'll hang on until 5:30. I'd sooner wait until a fine spring/summer evening to head home early - the long way. :pac:
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    #72
    Planet X
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    Nothing of note is going to happen.


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    #73
    Fian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Fian


    Planet X wrote: »
    Nothing of note is going to happen.

    Almost certainly correct.

    At least until you said that.........now.....well who knows.


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    #74
    Planet X
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    No one knows, correct.
    It was over hyped it seems.
    So far anyway. I opened the curtains early this morning like a child expecting to see........

    Back to bed, nothing to see here......


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    #75
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Snow?



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    #76
    retalivity
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    Snowed in d4 from about 6.15 - 7, when i was playing 7 a side. Cycled home after but nothing on the road.

    And my waterproof gloves are not waterproof at all, so my fingers may fall off now.


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    #77
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i had to bring the cat to the vet just after 5 in ashbourne. the drive home from about 6 onwards was through a moderately heavy snowfall; passed a couple of hardy souls on the old N2. chapeau, it was not a night i'd have wanted to be on the bike.


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    #78
    Get In There
    Registered Users Posts: 682 ✭✭✭Get In There


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i had to bring the cat to the vet just after 5 in ashbourne. the drive home from about 6 onwards was through a moderately heavy snowfall; passed a couple of hardy souls on the old N2. chapeau, it was not a night i'd have wanted to be on the bike.

    Most likely me and the wife cycling home from work!


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    #79
    buffalo
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    Just worrying about our four-wheeled friends... http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/ice-and-snow-create-treacherous-road-conditions-1.2935754
    If drivers skid on the roads, they should not break fast, but reduce acceleration and gears to stop gradually.

    What if they've already had breakfast?! :pac:


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    #80
    Sugarlumps
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    Pretty icy out there, fella decided for no reason to stop in the middle of Shelbourne road.

    My brakes just saved me, barely kept the bike upright, back tyre skidded. Otherwise, I was going in to the back of him, or ploughing into incoming traffic.

    Whacked the van with my fist, gent hops out, auld lad, cursing the fúck out of him. He knew he was in the wrong, sharply got back in. Great start to the day.


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    #81
    Parchment
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    Saw a guy take a right hopper this morning - came off the bike when taking a corner, the road was surprisingly icy. Went back to see was he ok - he was but i cycled on much more cautiously.


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    #82
    Alek
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    Dublin city full of white and black ice, mostly on small roads and footpaths, main arteries are ok in the middle of the lane. Careful out there.


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    #83
    Ciaran_B
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    Slippery around Dublin 12 in the estates but once I was on the main road it was OK. Still took it very carefully on corners and tried to be gentle on the brakes.


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    #84
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,248 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    No bother for me this morning...wasn't even cold!...windscreen washers were frozen though! :p


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    #85
    jon1981
    Registered Users Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭jon1981


    Dropped a few psi on the aul 4 seasons before i set off this morning. The housing estate was abit icy around killester, was grand on the main roads into town.

    Just took my time, read ahead for any of the shiny black stuff ;)

    Still alot of dare devils on BSO's hugging the kerb...


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    #86
    magicbastarder
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    Sugarlumps wrote: »
    Whacked the van with my fist, gent hops out, auld lad, cursing the fúck out of him. He knew he was in the wrong, sharply got back in. Great start to the day.
    you cursed him because you'd barely left yourself enough braking distance?


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    #87
    Pigeon Reaper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Pigeon Reaper


    Had a few interesting moments on black ice but stayed upright. It's the first time I used some of my winter cycling gear and it was nice.


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    #88
    jon1981
    Registered Users Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭jon1981


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    you cursed him because you'd barely left yourself enough braking distance?

    I was thinking the same but i let him off with it :D


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    #89
    CramCycle
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    you cursed him because you'd barely left yourself enough braking distance?
    Have to say I agree, not enough braking distance for the conditions. What if he had a genuine reason for braking? All that really happened is driving a pedal cycle without reasonable consideration, and attempted property damage.


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    #90
    Sugarlumps
    Registered Users Posts: 6,917 ✭✭✭Sugarlumps


    If he had a genuine reason to stop, why not pull over to the side where there's plenty of room. It's akin to pulling up to a dead stop on the motorway instead of using the hard shoulder. I've been cycling the same the same route for the last eight years without incident.

    Perhaps I should of given more space, due to the conditions. I wasn't riding his coattails. Nor was going I going to jam on the brakes either, causing myself damage.


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    #91
    Kaisr Sose
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    you cursed him because you'd barely left yourself enough braking distance?

    That's a hell of a generalisation to make. The other day while in a cycle lane and nothing in front of me, a car suddenly passed me and pulled into the lane, the slowed and stopped. As a result, I had to slam on to avoid hitting the car....should I have left more braking distance too?


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