Cycling: Slippery When Wet

[airboatr]

ah but , snowball fights - sleding - snowmobiling - doing doughnuts in the parking lot-- if ya have rear wheel drive

.....86 and sunny here today
putting the lights in the palm trees


Ian

I was relieved to see you hadn't posted any pictures of an injured speedbird

only one thing though.. I don't see any pics mate, so I'm unable to quailify that

but it sounds like your ok!!

[VEGAS]

He was Ian.... but wore his legs down with all that cycling

[speedbird591]

Snow! How marvellous!

I can remember the last big fun snowfall I experienced in the UK. It must have been, ooh, 1980? We borrowed the neighbours kids (because their Dad had made them a toboggan) and spent three days sliding down hillsides and having snowball fights.

So that's about 20 years without 'proper' snow. Damn- I'm cycling to Copenhagen to get this sorted once and for all

Ian

PS Sorry you didn't see any pics, Joe. My website isn't totally reliable - the server likes to have lots of rest. But for a dollar a month I'm not likely to complain! Just pop back later (or not )

[Garry Russell]

HI Ian

Did you not have any in February??

[speedbird591]

Might have done, Garry

The point is 1980 is the last one I remember.

Ian

[Garry Russell]

[jonesey2k]

Part of me wishes for some proper snow but then I'd have to get spiked tires for my motorbike

[Garry Russell]

On the other hand Jonesey.......you could walk

[airboatr]

Just pop back later ........>> (or not ) <<

Ian
W i l d - H o r s e s , couldnotdragmeaway!


but hey if you don't want me around... see if I care about your fithy pics....... you dirrrrty man.!

!!!

[speedbird591]

Part of me wishes for some proper snow but then I'd have to get spiked tires for my motorbike

Or a sidecar, Jonesey! Way back in the legendary winter of 1962/63 (check it out at the met office) I'd just become 16 and bought my first motorbike. For £7 (and I had to borrow £3 10/- of that from Mum) I got myself a 1938 350cc Triumph Tiger 80 with girder forks and a rigid frame and a sidecar chassis. Bolted to the chassis was my Dad's old wooden toolbox with enough ballast to keep the wheel down. Rocks, bricks and enough tools to do a rebore by the roadside

Villages were cut off for weeks and trains were stuck in snowdrifts for days. There was frost every night from Jan until March , there were ice floes near Tower Bridge and the sea froze over. Lesser men would have stayed at home. Not I. Armed with nothing more than a shovel and a pair of wellies, the world was my lobster! I must have slid into every snowdrift in the county and dug myself out again. One evening we managed to get eight of us on the bike (can't remember if it was illegal or not ) and when it wouldn't get up Westerham Hill due to ice and lack of power they all got off and pushed and had to walk to the top of the hill to get on again.

Snow - bring it on! It's in my blood

Ian