Safe to head out?

ROK ON

Anyone out for a cycle this morning. Hoping to head out soon as I need to be back for rugby at 3. Just wondering is it safe to head out.
Roads where I am look dodgy - just wondering what things look like elsewhere in Dublin/Wicklow?

blorg

Very frosty here and I'm only in Ranelagh.

mikemac

I'd say give it a miss today

Very steep hill in my estate and had to push the bike down it. Even the cars are barely crawling down it

liamo

Yeah. My club cycle was postponed for a couple of hours and then cancelled. Patches of ice all over my area (Rathfarnham). I wouldn't like to be further out on those roads. Better to be safe than sorry.

ba

Swords CC Christmas race was cancelled, as far as i know. Raam, you may be interested to know this. i was gonna cycle over from clontarf to batterstown at 8.15am for sign on at 10am. too dodgy. especially because we would be racing on back roads... lethal. better safe than sorry.

thanks for the heads up Gareth. unfortunate, was looking forward to racing along side you, jimmy and the lads.

Mr. Skeffington

No worries Brian, yes it was a shame. The corners on the circuit were absolutly leathal. Really wanted to give it a lash today, sure hopefully it will be a little warmer on the 21st.

Raam

ba wrote: »

Swords CC Christmas race was cancelled, as far as i know. Raam, you may be interested to know this. i was gonna cycle over from clontarf to batterstown at 8.15am for sign on at 10am. too dodgy. especially because we would be racing on back roads... lethal. better safe than sorry.

I thought it might be. I looked out the window before 8 this morning and everything was covered in frost, so I decided to stay in bed. I went out for an hour at about 2pm.

Canis Lupus

In london so the roads are gritted. My commute requires about 2k on shared pedestrian pathways and that's brought out a whole new level of brave/stupidity in me.

Cycling on a roadbike in icy conditions is nervewracking.

rubadub

I nearly came off going past a bus stop, on saturday night. Those newish paving stones with ridges on them, only at bus stops. I was going fairly slow too as it was frosty on the cycletrack too. The red cycletracks seem a lot better, this one was tarmac, but those stones are very dangerous.

DirkVoodoo

Yeah they are terrible. There are two types, the ones with little raised dimples on the surface and the others as you described, with tracks running parallel to the direction of the path.

I don't know why they are there because they seem to provide less grip than regular tarmac/paving. Plus now they are covered by leaves so you can't even see where the tracks are.