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VW 1

magicbastarder wrote: »

Not sure if this belongs in this thread - anyone else been laid low with this dose of flu going around? Every bit of me hurts and I cannot get warm.

Struck down Xmas morning and haven't been right since. Have been working from home to avoid the cold temps on the cycle in.

alentejo

Was so mad busy up to Christmas now got some bug so no cycling for me. #gutted

C3PO

Yep - feeling like s**t for the last week!

retalivity

literally just about to go out the door and up the mountains when it starts raining and the balcony door shakes from the wind.
back to bed and watching the football it is!

RacoonQueen

retalivity wrote: »

literally just about to go out the door and up the mountains when it starts raining and the balcony door shakes from the wind.
back to bed and watching the football it is!

Was blooming crappy yesterday...HR up 20 beats to push 20kph into the wind. Legs wrecked when I got home.

retalivity

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Was blooming crappy yesterday...HR up 20 beats to push 20kph into the wind. Legs wrecked when I got home.

i felt guilty after posting this and the rain stopped, so i went out for 90mins, not as bad as saturday but still very windy

triggermortis

I ventured to the shops before going to work and saw the tree in the garden almost horizontal, so decided against using the bike to commute to work.

VW 1

So..... Any takers today!?

Considering my options from bed currently.

Pinch Flat

It snowed in Dublin 15 at about 9 last night and temperature just about freezing at the moment. Suspect what’s there will be frozen by now so not risking it.

Wishbone Ash

Wimped out when I saw the ice around the house and took the car.

CramCycle

Driveway was an icerink this morning, roads were generally fine. Interesting game this morning playing count down with the DB real time displays. I was contemplating the bus but decided since I was 15minutes early, I'd give it a shot and lock up the bike if it was bad. Kept it 8 minutes behind me for half the journey, although it rapidly caught me on the N11. Only beat me by a minute in the end.

Aysedasi

Wimped out. Snow frozen to path and road outside the house. Main road doesn't look too bad but wouldn't have made it there in one piece

C3PO

Really dodgy on the back roads around Rathmichael - did a lot of "feet off the pedals and paddle"! N11, Rock Road etc generally ok but lots of ice on cycle tracks ... just as well I tend not to use them!!
Probably should have taken the car!

07Lapierre

My car was sliding around this morning! Bike tucked up in the garage.

homer911

Cycled in from Sandyford on N11, roads fine but cycle path bad in patches up to Foster Avenue. Temperature at Belfield said 1C - same as yesterday

Annie get your Run

Have been on the bus anyway this week due to a persistent cough & cold but hats off to anyone that cycled in today traffic seemed lighter though so probably lots of people wimping out of going to work by any means :pac:

retalivity

Roads were fine for cycling, granted i didnt leave til 8.30pm. traffic was diabolical though, lots of angry people in cars

CramCycle

I should clarify, I was on the MTB this morning, so this may have made it a more comfy and non slippy ride than it would have been.

daragh_

As mentioned upthread there is some ice on the bike paths around Blackrock. Big patch at the lights on Temple Hill coming down to Blackrock, and also along the bike path to Carysfort Ave. I kept out on the road and avoided a wipeout coming to a stop at the lights on Temple Hill. A few guys behind me were sliding around.

Rode my CX bike with big touring tyres. Slow going but a lot easier to handle on the slippy bits.

Fian

I came in through clonskeagh & Ranelagh. No ice to speak of once i was out of estates and onto main road.

Got a new (second hand) hybrid bike last week. Glad i had that with disc brakes rather than the rim braked road bike i was using the previous week (since my last hybrid bit the dust).

strmin

Some wet snow in Dublin 15 and Phoenix park. Took it slow on 23mm slick tires. 20km/h average - slowest in few years, but arrived to work in one piece. That is most important.

accensi0n

Havn't been cycling since the temp dropped below 10 C.

Pinch Flat

Took the bike in the end. Cycle paths around carpenterstown were bad so on the road it was. Pinch flat junior ahead of me on his bike going to school.

Traffic was brutal going through the Phoenix park - elected to take centre lane, as the paths looked lethal. Only had one idiot overtake me to rejoin the queue to park gate street. Always one.

C3PO

accensi0n wrote: »

Havn't been cycling since the temp dropped below 10 C.

That's a bit limiting in Ireland! :rolleyes:

Pigeon Reaper

I was going to take the car but the roads looked ok this morning. It was cold but not as cold as some days before Christmas. The damp and wet was the worst due to slush being sprayed up by the tyres. I did take it slow around some corners but it didn't add much time. The roads where very quiet.

The cycle home yesterday is memorable and not something I'd like to repeat without ski goggles which I would have loved.

Kaisr Sose

Side roads in Stepaside were icy this morning at 8. Cycle lanes from Sandyford up were very slushy last night so I had my mind made up then. Enjoyed my cycle home in the snow and did not find it too cold. Going downhill to Kilmacud would not be so much fun.

Annie get your Run

Back on the bike today oh joy of joys it was a gorgeous morning and last nights wind seemed to have all but disappeared!

magicbastarder

wimped out again this morning.haven't been on the bike in over two weeks, between travel for work, and a stomach bug that lasted over a week, so i was thinking of heading out, but it was just miserable. and having seen the amount of muck on the roads, i wouldn't have looked forward to cleaning the bike after, either.

Felexicon

magicbastarder wrote: »

wimped out again this morning.haven't been on the bike in over two weeks, between travel for work, and a stomach bug that lasted over a week, so i was thinking of heading out, but it was just miserable. and having seen the amount of muck on the roads, i wouldn't have looked forward to cleaning the bike after, either.

You made the right choice. It was rotten out there today.

magicbastarder

i was out NCD direction earlier in the car - not quite as far north as you were - and at one point had to drive around a 'puddle' which was eight inches deep on my side of the road.