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[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:

 

[The Hodge]

Fantastic winter ride today ..just over the hill from where I live in the Pundershaw area of Kielder Forest ..Wayne headed my way to join me..on what was a fairly tough & demanding ride where concentration levels had to be 100% especially on the fireroad sections where touching the side of a rut had you off the bike straight away ( I had at least half a dozen ) .
We managed 19miles and 1414ft.ascent which given the conditions was a fairly decent effort ..
Cheers Wayne

 

[Binhill1]

Great weather for the Strathpuffer 24 hour race at Dingwall. That's my pal Drummonds nephew in the lead.

 

[Arminius]

Great weather for the Strathpuffer 24 hour race at Dingwall. That's my pal Drummonds nephew in the lead.

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What is the trick winning a 24hr race within 5:43:40?

 

[Amber Valley Guy]

Cold one today on the old Cromford Canal, even the old canal tunnel by the Excavator pub had icicles inside (which rarely happens unless it drops way below freezing). And the canal was frozen over.

 

[Binhill1]

What is the trick winning a 24hr race within 5:43:40?

Haha