Nantucket bike ride/Where's Brian Walden now?

[hirez]

There's probably something terribly chocolate-box-cover about cyclists covered with a dusting of hoar-frost. Not if you're the pillock in question, mind. Then it's just a bit bleedin' parky

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[quercus]

You cycle down the windy narrow bit past the Common? You have some sort of deathwish?! That's bad enough for traffic not giving you room in Summer and I'd hate to think about it on ice.

[hirez]

Not the road that goes past the village hall, but the one that you take if you were going to the White Lion. Pearce's Hill. There's a footpath over the Frome and then you're at the bottom corner of Oldbury Park.

[mr_tom]

There's always the cover from Aerodynamik.

[hirez]

So there is.

[girfan]

I was wondering how it went. Some of the cars on the road still have frosty windows.

[sinibar]

Cycling short distances in the cold isn't too bad if you have some form of extremity covering. A big pair of gloves and a wooly hat do me.

Cycling long distances in the cold is a pain because after a while you warm up and all the warm stuff you're wearing suddenly turns boil-in-the-bag. So you have to choose whether you want your discomfort to be hot or cold, or try to find a happy medium.

[hirez]

This is why I have a pile of technical clothing. I should probably think about some (wind|water)proof socks, though.

[quercus]

Go to Squaddy-U-Like and get a pair of the lurid green Goretex boot liners in stupidly big, then cut cleat holes in the bottom and wear them on the outside of your shoes. Or else I've got some double-sided pink-n-black wetsuitty stuff (the thing wrapped around my suspension fork) and you could sew some.

Waterproof socks are horrible because your shoes still get soggy and wet and it catches up with you in the end, it just takes longer.

[eljaydaly]

I bet you were cute, all frozen solid like that!

And I learned a new word today, too. 'Parky'. Brrrr!

[girfan]

I'm surprised you didn't hear that last October (parky). :)

They are predicting snow for tomorrow-hurrah!

[hirez]

It was dead warm on that there island.

[eljaydaly]

Meh. It wasn't really all that cold at VP. Except for on the actual ferry. That was cold as hell!

No snow here yet. :( Just.. you know. Single-digit freezingness.

Build a snowman!

[avocadovpx]

>> Doing it downhill in the dark will mean headbutting a parked Volvo at the very least.

But I'm sure it's very safe. Bein' a Volvo and all.