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Down here on the south coast !! didn't seem that cold to me cycling home tonight...

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  1. 30-11-09 23:12 #1
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    Exclamation First gritters of the year

    Down here on the south coast !!

    didn't seem that cold to me cycling home tonight
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  3. 30-11-09 23:25 #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by NigelC View Post
    Down here on the south coast !!

    didn't seem that cold to me cycling home tonight
    Fecking freezing here. cars are white with the ice and i have no deicer and up at 6 am.
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  4. 01-12-09 08:47 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by NigelC View Post
    Down here on the south coast !!

    didn't seem that cold to me cycling home tonight
    Bet you are regretting that sarcastic rolly eyes this morning?


    -3 , deep frost along the coast...roads in a right state..thank god they didn't rely on your cycling forecast
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    Scraped ice off the bike seat for the first time this morning. Winter has arrived in deepest darkest SE London. Fresh ride to work, thankfully the heated grips are a joy! Time to find the trouser liners though, my thighs were cold! No gritting done on my route though...
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    Frosty/Icy car for the first time today...also encountered my first patch of Ice, which proved rather hard to slow down on. I've not driven to this place in winter before, so I dunno the 'trouble spots' for icy conditions. I got a bit of an idea this morning though.
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    No sign of gritters up here, but the car had a squiggle on black ice this morning - Eeek!
    We seem to have gone straight from summer to winter this year!
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    took me ten minutes to scrape the ice off the car , but it was worth it for teh gorgeous clear sky and full moon last night

    I SOOOOOOOOOO prefer this to rain (even when I commuted on the bike, cold was better than wet )

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    Bike this morning on the "didn't seem that cold" South Coast. Car was registering 0.5degC when I moved it to get the bike out of the garage!!

    Some interesting black ice but generally fine, reminded me of why I tended to use my son's XR125 for frosty commutes rather than the Sprint last year
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    Its bloody cold here !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by fazerdaze View Post
    No sign of gritters up here, but the car had a squiggle on black ice this morning - Eeek!
    We seem to have gone straight from summer to winter this year!
    Eh. Did you miss the last three weeks of rain?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gedge View Post
    Bet you are regretting that sarcastic rolly eyes this morning?

    not really it was cold but only the odd patch on the roads quite a few cars were covered in frost , my goretex windstopper top i wore on my motorbike is excellent for cycling
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    About 3 degrees this morning riding in, no salt and dark visor needed by 10 o'clock for the bright sunshine
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    -2 on the way in this morning. Reached a heady 4 degrees this afternoon though
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    Icy understeer on my truck at 5:30 this morning. Deep joy!!
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    There was full on covering of snow on the fells up here last weekend, I assume that the sleet that fell on Carlisle was snow everywhere else in the county as its always a couple of degrees warmer here.
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