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[irie]

When it gets really cold (<0C) I wear my skiing Hestra Army Leather 5 finger Gore-Tex gloves. Also have Hestra Mitts but they're not bike control friendly of course.

Really cold? Imho <-20c when you must be quick when taking hands out of gloves for operating something. The bad around 0c is when there is humidity that is crawling into shoes and clothes.

What I said above was obviously related to where I ride an eMTB.

 

[Arminius]

What I said above was obviously related to where I ride an eMTB.

Wearing the right gloves can make a difference! People feel different?

 

[Bndit]

What a beautiful day again, -7 celsius, no wind, 2h15min/31km winter trails

 

[Mcharza]

Same here, beautiful day and -8 C, but we have sun
After about an hour, the toes started to get cold in the summer mtb clipless shoes.

PS. No mud problems

 

[Binhill1]

No riding for me today. Frozen mud is a pain. Motor off to bike doctor to get paired with new TCU. Bearing feels rough or is just cold. Maybe get it serviced if Berkshire agree it's rough.

 

[steve_sordy]

......a good old spanking from the wife .......

Does she do house calls?

 

[Binhill1]

Does she do house calls?

You wish

 

[steve_sordy]

You wish

Is this what you owe your surprising agility and longevity to?

 

[Arminius]

Does she do house calls?

(If I got it right) I would not ask for it. He is a tough cookie but there must be a reason why @Binhill1 is doing his bike repairs outdoors in the snow! 🫣

 

[Binhill1]

(If I got it right) I would not ask for it. He is a tough cookie but there must be a reason why @Binhill1 is doing his bike repairs outdoors in the snow! 🫣

Just all these pictures of folk out on bikes at minus 11 etc I thought I should man up a bit.

 

[Binhill1]

Snow is dinging it doon . Motor on kitchen floor be sent away South today so that's my excuse for not going out. Someone ?? left soup on the doorstep hope it wasn't the Curry poisiner. Lot of flooding down South again I seen a lad water skiing on tv .

 

[Binhill1]

Two Feet of snow today.

 

[lar1337]

Incidentally, I rode with my mate who has a from the future Zerode Katipo belt drive bike. His Gates carbon belt came off THREE times today. I know we're all getting hyped for the next big thing MGU era but on today's experience, they don't appear to cope with sloppy conditions all that well & that's on an unassisted bike.

That's really interesting, iam so up for an MGU bike next but 75% of the time I ride slop in the west country so would be a no go. How easy is it to put back on?

 

[David1964]

North Yorkshire Moors brutal today - snow has made most of our regular routes impassable, sinking in up to axles at times. Managed to maintain momentum on a few short sections of the Cleveland Way on Ingleby Moor but every other bridleway we tried wasn’t rideable. We managed just 8 miles in almost 2 hours, pushing in many sections.
4WD vehicles have created some wheel ruts with a rideable compacted surface but still a challenge avoiding pedal strikes in the solid ice 'walls'. Lots of lethal sheet ice in the few sections without snow.
Otherwise all good sun was shining and made it home in one piece which didn’t seem likely at times

 

[RustyMTB]

That's really interesting, iam so up for an MGU bike next but 75% of the time I ride slop in the west country so would be a no go. How easy is it to put back on?

Couple of minutes each time. On this bike and I would imagine any full suss with a belt, you have to release the tensioner in order to allow the belt to be replaced on the rear sprocket but it was obviously not sitting tight on the sprocket because the valleys in the belt were clogged with mud. The dirt is shit around here, so it may be a local thing.

 

[irie]

After 6 mucky miles the tree gods then decided to punish me 6 times in the next mile!



Think that Bridleway's to be avoided for now. Shame because it's a nice way to get to "The Trundle" ...

... before dropping down "Chalkpit Lane".

 

[steve_sordy]

Tree Gods? That looks like enemy action to me.

 

[irie]

Tree Gods? That looks like enemy action to me.

If it was Silvanus he's certainly got it in for an atheist like me. The big pussy is in Scotland ATM but when I got home I did get quite a welcome from a younger much smaller (rescue) pussy ... probably because she was hungry!

 

[irie]

Couple of minutes each time. On this bike and I would imagine any full suss with a belt, you have to release the tensioner in order to allow the belt to be replaced on the rear sprocket but it was obviously not sitting tight on the sprocket because the valleys in the belt were clogged with mud. The dirt is shit around here, so it may be a local thing.

Mud being an enemy of belts is a very interesting point, the mud near us is f7cking horrible so belts are out! For example: