Black ice everywhere

Plastik

Just back from 50k around Enniskerry/Greystones - no sign of any ice.

seamus

Rain followed by freezing temps last night. The roads look wet but I can see sparkly bits everywhere. Take it easy this morning folks

davidsatelle100

Going to wimp out this morning and take the bus

ednwireland

fupping lethal up here off the main road, car sliding all over the place, thank god for anti lock brakes just about managed 15mph safely

nerraw1111

Lots of black ice in city centre.

RacoonQueen

Bike was left at home today. That's more because I've had 5 punctures in 4 weeks than the ice though. Honest.

Nearly went on my snot walking to the bus stop though.

Hmmzis

Cycle lanes and most of the bus lanes were not usable this morning. Think I need to put the knoblies on the mtb and park the road bike until these ice rink conditions are over.

Caroline_ie

Clonee towards blanchardstown was very bad this morning at a little before 7. I had the studded tires on the CX. I am INVINCIBLE! ... but slow.

Ronan|Raven

Take care around Poddle Park / KCR in Kimmage. three cyclists and a person on a scooter went flying this morning in the space of 20m.

fletch

No problems for me this morning on 700CX25. It didn't look that cold but my hands felt like I'd been out playing in the snow for 3 hours without gloves by the time I got to work

rp

funny thing these last couple of days, I'm going on a 7:30 and seeing no sign of ice, yet people are reporting a lot of ice later - seems to be that the temp is dropping just before the sun comes up?

Caroline_ie

rp wrote: »

funny thing these last couple of days, I'm going on a 7:30 and seeing no sign of ice, yet people are reporting a lot of ice later - seems to be that the temp is dropping just before the sun comes up?

TBH the fear of ice is worse than the ice itself for me ...

Jawgap

Caroline_ie wrote: »

"TBH the fear of ice is worse than the ice itself for me ..."

Edward Smith, Captain of RMS Titanic

FYP:D

seamus

rp wrote: »

funny thing these last couple of days, I'm going on a 7:30 and seeing no sign of ice, yet people are reporting a lot of ice later - seems to be that the temp is dropping just before the sun comes up?

Clear skies at this time of year in these latitudes means that the temperature really only starts rising with direct sunlight. When it's cloudier the temp will start rising earlier as the heat is trapped.
In ice terms, it's literally darkest before the dawn as this is when the ice has had the maximum amount of time to freeze over.

kenmc

Spikey MTB for me this morning, sparkly roads but don't think it was very slippy. Saw a couple of iced-over puddles along the very edge though, but otherwise was very normal, if slow, commute.... although a colleague came off very close to the office. I laughed at him just as he did at me last week, great to see Karma biting back

Raam

It's days like these that I'm glad I chose to live and work near the Sutton-Clontarf track.

07Lapierre

Its days like these that I'm glad i have a car!

CramCycle

Its days like this I am glad I backlogged paperwork and have to spend the morning at home playing catch up.

Roll on midday trip to work.

Plastik

No problems from Greystones to D1 at 7.30 this morning. No skids, slips or slides thankfully!

flatface

Thanks to all posters for the ice reports. I check this thread in the morning to see how road conditions are. Can't afford a spill to effect my training for the 12 pubs of Christmas
Keep up the good work!

NeedMoreGears

Malahide to City Centre not too bad on underinflated 1.75" regular tyres. No real slips or slides. More ice than I've seen in the past few days but only from frozen puddles - I didn't see any extended stretches Took it handy all the same.

colm_gti

Do we think this cold snap is forecast to last much longer? I have a pair of them schwalbe marathon winters in my shopping cart on wiggle, if I proceed with payment I have no doubt average temps will rise by ~5 degrees!

Pigeon Reaper

Lots of ice on the red cow cycle path. Poor guy heading the other way came off three times. I skidded even with studded tyres on the mtb.

kenmc

weather forum is aiming for wintery weather mid next week possibly for over a week. finally. happy days...

talkabout

kenmc wrote: »

weather forum is aiming for wintery weather mid next week possibly for over a week. finally. happy days...

Next week is looking worse based on current charts, however, they may and probably will change.

Caroline_ie

kenmc wrote: »

weather forum is aiming for wintery weather mid next week possibly for over a week. finally. happy days...

Ken, I know you love snow ... you mean snow?

kenmc

talkabout wrote: »

Next week is looking worse based better on current charts, however, they may and probably will change but hopefully not.

Now that's right

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Ken, I know you love snow ... you mean snow?

Yip
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!!!!!

irishmotorist

I had planned on going on the bus this morning and was glad that I did. Very slippy roads and paths on both ends of my cycle.

Regarding the Marathon Winter tyres, how good are they for mornings like today? I'm not talking about snow, just random spots of ice around the place. I'm usually on my Cayo with 700x23c on it but I have my old Sirrus in the shed that I could stick bigger tyres onto - e.g. 700x28. Wiggle says "Even in tight bends and under violent braking everything remains under control." Is this written with mornings like today in mind?

One other question, my usual commute is 2 x 25km x 4 days per week. Would that make mincemeat of the studs on these tyres? I could perhaps justify a pair if it would make cycling possible, but not if I'm only going to get a month or two out of them.

kenmc

irishmotorist wrote: »

One other question, my usual commute is 2 x 25km x 4 days per week. Would that make mincemeat of the studs on these tyres? I could perhaps justify a pair if it would make cycling possible, but not if I'm only going to get a month or two out of them.

FWIW, you can get a set of schwalbe winter touring in 700x30 for just over 50 quid - 60 inc delivery.
That's just over 3 weeks on the bus assuming 4 euro a day - I've no idea how much a weekly pass or anything is though

Lumen

irishmotorist wrote: »

Regarding the Marathon Winter tyres, how good are they for mornings like today? I'm not talking about snow, just random spots of ice around the place. I'm usually on my Cayo with 700x23c on it but I have my old Sirrus in the shed that I could stick bigger tyres onto - e.g. 700x28. Wiggle says "Even in tight bends and under violent braking everything remains under control." Is this written with mornings like today in mind?

One other question, my usual commute is 2 x 25km x 4 days per week. Would that make mincemeat of the studs on these tyres? I could perhaps justify a pair if it would make cycling possible, but not if I'm only going to get a month or two out of them.

Marathon Winter tyres are perfectly secure and the studs last ages. If I have a criticism it's that they're slow, noisy and corner oddly.

You need the clearance though, 35mm is the narrowest they do.