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martin smith
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Did everyone ride to work today?
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Roy Gardiner
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Ha ha.
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martin smith
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oh, looks like you HAVE got less snow than us. |
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martin smith
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 you are so predictable 
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| you are so predictable |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:14 am Post subject: Re: So who wimped out then? |
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Bunch of women if they didn't, and some women rode in!
This is how it should be done
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makes me laugh when you see a cyclist with thick coat, hat and gloves and SHORTS. What t1t$
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I was ready to ride in on the mtb, but as I said elsewhere J. insiststed I drivwer her car and drop her off on the way. Pity as I enjoy the small bit of off road I can do when I use the mtb to commute in snow.
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I did. Wassall the fuss about?
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: So who wimped out then? |
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| martin smith wrote: |
| Did everyone ride to work today? |
Yup. 
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Roy Gardiner
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: So who wimped out then? |
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| Did everyone ride to work today? |
Yup. |
Just as a matter of interest, what's the distance? Is it all on treated roads?
Only 11 miles from the City here, even the main road was still snowy at 8am.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: So who wimped out then? |
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| Roy Gardiner wrote: |
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| martin smith wrote: |
| Did everyone ride to work today? |
Yup. |
Just as a matter of interest, what's the distance? Is it all on treated roads?
Only 11 miles from the City here, even the main road was still snowy at 8am. |
7 miles.
Walked to main road, not as clear as usual as no fookin buses 
After the North Circular Road, Green Lanes was fine. Passed all the buses lined up at Wood Green Garage - what a bunch of useless tossas!
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| I didn't, mainly cos living in a $hithole there are too few gritted roads, and of course shockingly poor standard of snow driving on the few that are. (plenty of muppets tailgating at exactly the speed limit). |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: So who wimped out then? |
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| Roy Gardiner wrote: |
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| Did everyone ride to work today? |
Yup. |
Just as a matter of interest, what's the distance? Is it all on treated roads?
Only 11 miles from the City here, even the main road was still snowy at 8am. |
Mine was 10 miles today - I added an extra couple of miles to my normal route to pick up a gritted main road a bit sooner than usual, but the fresh thick snow was perfectly rideable too. In places the gritting hadn't really worked due to the wind blowing snow across the road at a rate of knots. It'll be worse when all the compacted snow and slush freezes tonight I think. 
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SHUT UP ! 
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martin smith
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it has to be said, it did take me 1hr20 rather than an hour and that long on an mtb on the road into a headwind is a bit of an @rse.
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martin smith
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Right, i'm off home. think i'll go the long way.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: So who wimped out then? |
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Yes i did  only 5 miles though, but on the way home a chavvy t0sser chucked a snowball at me from a moving car and I nearly came a cropper |
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