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Cycling in the icy conditions

  • 25-12-2009 12:37am
    #1
    robbie_998
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    (wow didn't think this forum was in sports..... and heres me looking in Rec ! )

    anybody out cycling in all that ice ???

    i was out at 3:30am last night and i saw two lads on bicycles on the road.

    how they did it i have no idea.

    how do you guys find it ? (yes i was driving a car ;))


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  • #2
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,393 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    robbie_998 wrote: »
    (wow didn't think this forum was in sports..... and heres me looking in Rec ! )

    anybody out cycling in all that ice ???

    i was out at 3:30am last night and i saw two lads on bicycles on the road.

    how they did it i have no idea.

    how do you guys find it ? (yes i was driving a car ;))
    Commuted on Tuesday - 57km round trip, a lot of it on unlit and untreated North County roads. Slowed down a bit, but no scares.


  • #3
    RoundTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    came off the bike on Wednesday afternoon for the first time in a year or so, hit a patch of ice coming round a corner on a residential road in Beechwood/Ranelagh. After that I tried to to avoid cycling, but it seems like I could have been braver and the bigger roads were actually OK in Dublin. No harm done, fortunately.


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
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    Hit some black ice on wednesday coming home from work, lost all grip and slid towards traffic. Scary stuff, managed to stay up right and stop in time though.


  • #5
    learn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭learn


    RoundTower wrote: »
    came off the bike on Wednesday afternoon for the first time in a year or so, hit a patch of ice coming round a corner on a residential road in Beechwood/Ranelagh. After that I tried to to avoid cycling, but it seems like I could have been braver and the bigger roads were actually OK in Dublin. No harm done, fortunately.

    It's not the falling off the bike on slippery roads that causes the fatalities, it's the cars that come skidding on the corners into your path.


  • #6
    Ryaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭Ryaner


    RoundTower wrote: »
    came off the bike on Wednesday afternoon for the first time in a year or so, hit a patch of ice coming round a corner on a residential road in Beechwood/Ranelagh. After that I tried to to avoid cycling, but it seems like I could have been braver and the bigger roads were actually OK in Dublin. No harm done, fortunately.

    Main roads yesterday were ok. I walked my bike out of the estate and then ice was gone. However only managed 10 minutes before the cold got the better of me :(


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