Black ice everywhere

Skrynesaver · 22-01-2013 03:59PM

Hit a patch of black ice this morning, rear wheel went sideways, but I mmanaged to stop, using my forehead as a brake.

7 stitches and a missed morning

Take it handy out there.

lennymc · 22-01-2013 04:04PM

ouch! hopefully your bike and you are ok.

Skrynesaver · 22-01-2013 04:09PM

lennymc wrote: »

ouch! hopefully your bike and you are ok.

The bike got me into the office, where I saw the state of myself and headed in to the hospital. So the bike's grand and I'll be back up on it in a couple of days.

eoghan84 · 22-01-2013 05:12PM

Skrynesaver wrote: »

Hit a patch of black ice this morning, rear wheel went sideways, but I mmanaged to stop, using my forehead as a brake.

7 stitches and a missed morning

Take it handy out there.

Ah man sorry to hear you came down, luckily it was only stitches. Hope you heal soon

colm_gti · 22-01-2013 05:28PM

lennymc wrote: »

ouch! hopefully your bike and you are ok.

More importantly, I hope you didn't damage the road?

monkeybutter · 22-01-2013 06:31PM

Skrynesaver wrote: »

The bike got me into the office, where I saw the state of myself and headed in to the hospital. So the bike's grand and I'll be back up on it in a couple of days.

Did you have a helmet on :pac:

Skrynesaver · 22-01-2013 07:15PM

monkeybutter wrote: »

Did you have a helmet on :pac:

I did, but I'd taken off my glasses as they'd steamed up and put them in the helmet in the approved manner, the left lens popped out and the frame gouged out a nice divot.

godtabh · 22-01-2013 09:53PM

Not looking good for tomorrow. The temperature doesn't seem that low but the chill factor brings it down to -4 where i am

Wishbone Ash · 22-01-2013 10:05PM

godtabh wrote: »

Not looking good for tomorrow. The temperature doesn't seem that low but the chill factor brings it down to -4 where i am

I was just thinking that. Out here in north Co Dublin my garden thermometer read 0 degrees at 7pm. Now it's reading 3 degrees!

I might chance it tomorrow (although in saying that, I'm right beside the sea so things can change hugely by the time I get a few kms inland).

Wishbone Ash · 22-01-2013 10:09PM

Skrynesaver wrote: »

Hit a patch of black ice this morning, rear wheel went sideways, but I mmanaged to stop, using my forehead as a brake.

7 stitches and a missed morning

Take it handy out there.

Oops - Sorry to hear that! :eek:

Ironically though, coming off in black ice is usually a lot more forgiving than coming off on a dry road on a summer's day wearing shorts/short sleeves.

godtabh · 22-01-2013 10:21PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I was just thinking that. Out here in north Co Dublin my garden thermometer read 0 degrees at 7pm. Now it's reading 3 degrees!

I might chance it tomorrow (although in saying that, I'm right beside the sea so things can change hugely by the time I get a few kms inland).

The worst part for me is getting out of the estate. More than likely a 10km run for me

Wishbone Ash · 22-01-2013 10:26PM

godtabh wrote: »

The worst part for me is getting out of the estate

I have visions of Downton Abbey!

Beasty · 22-01-2013 10:46PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Oops - Sorry to hear that! :eek:

Ironically though, coming off in black ice is usually a lot more forgiving than coming off on a dry road on a summer's day wearing shorts/short sleeves.

Winter, black ice, broken wrist, very bad road rash on my leg, back on turbo after 8 days, back on the road bike after 6 weeks

Summer, concussion, road rash all over, skin graft around eye, 4 days in hospital, back on the turbo after 7 days and back on the road bike after 3 weeks

Close call, but my experience is summer is better for recovery ...:)

22-01-2013 11:07PM

Frosty / icy in Terenure estates at the moment, don't know if the temperature is due to rise tonight but if not will be slippy tomorrow.

DirkVoodoo · 23-01-2013 02:20AM

Was heading down the N11 on my way home, got to the bus stop just before you reach Foster's Avenue and found a completely inconvenient new layout routing a track behind the bus stop.

Had a nice tailwind and was going hard to stay warm, so slightly freaked when I saw the path curve away to my left. No way was I going to lean as the brand new track was sparkling and a light jab of the rear brake caused a small wobble, so I went as straight a line as possible.

Bus lanes from here on out. Hopefully the RSA will start a campaign notifying tax drivers, bus drivers (and the woman in the silver X5 today on the rock road who considered it more a convenient undertaking lane from the level crossing up Booterstown Avenue!) that in icy conditions, and due to the law revision, there is no way in hell you should expect cyclists to use off-road cycle lanes. Some of those "speed measures" on them are lethal even in rainy conditions, never mind the ice!

godtabh · 23-01-2013 07:17AM

Estate was an ice rink. Main roads were dodgy in places but otherwise ok. Went for a run. It was cold !

Pigeon Reaper · 23-01-2013 08:22AM

The Red Cow cycleway is dangerous. Avoid it if you can.

Beasty · 23-01-2013 08:25AM

A positively balmy 3 degrees all the way in though North County Dublin this morning ...

(that's what the car thermometer said anyway)

kenmc · 23-01-2013 08:45AM

Pigeon Reaper wrote: »

The Red Cow cycleway is dangerous. Avoid it if you can.

That's probably sage advice year round :pac:

Jocry · 23-01-2013 08:52AM

Coast road from Howth to town, a little greasy from being wet but overall not a bad morning

godtabh · 23-01-2013 08:53AM

When I left the house at 6 to run the roads in the estate were lethal. When I left for work at 7:30 they were fine. Some thaw

t'bear · 23-01-2013 09:22AM

Hit the road last night for laps, the official spin was cancelled, but I knew I would find like minded nutters (cyclists), and so I did, so 3 of us spend 35k zipping around the village, a bit nippy at the start and the conditions meant the two roundabouts were taken slowly but overall it was fine. Funny old weather out there

Surveyor11 · 23-01-2013 09:23AM

Definitely warmer (well, 1 degree) when I left the house for city west. Still plenty of patches of ice around - for some reason the bridges over the railway line at grange castle and the n7 are iced solid, rest is fine but I find these mornings you can let the guard down and have a fall handy enough

DirkVoodoo · 23-01-2013 09:56AM

I thought that guy's name was Pigeon Raper for a second.

ednwireland · 23-01-2013 10:45AM

Surveyor11 wrote: »

Definitely warmer (well, 1 degree) when I left the house for city west. Still plenty of patches of ice around - for some reason the bridges over the railway line at grange castle and the n7 are iced solid, rest is fine but I find these mornings you can let the guard down and have a fall handy enough

bridges are thin so get colder quicker

seven stars · 23-01-2013 01:10PM

N4 was fine this morning around 8am. I think the estates and minor roads are the real danger on days like this.

doozerie · 23-01-2013 01:59PM

ednwireland wrote: »

bridges are thin so get colder quicker

Ha, seems I have a lot in common with bridges then!

enas · 23-01-2013 02:21PM

Cork was fine so far. This morning, there was a small shower for a few minutes and estate turned into an ice rink (on a fairly steep downhill). What happens when one still decides to cycle, under those conditions? You guessed it. (Can you spot all the places where I manage to recover from lost traction?)

Beasty · 23-01-2013 02:32PM

You see - that's what helmet cams were invented for, not all this "I'll see you in court" stuff...

enas · 23-01-2013 02:40PM

Beasty wrote: »

You see - that's what helmet cams were invented for, not all this "I'll see you in court" stuff...

See, the funny thing is that I normally don't bring my helmet cam with me for my commute. Why did I bring it this morning? It looked bad, so I felt that something funny could happen, so I thought I could bring the camera. Of course, the much more rational option would have been to stay at home (which is what I eventually did, although it was a struggle to walk uphill). Those things are evil...

Black ice everywhere

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