Twelve hours of enhancing my karma and I'm ready to venture into the battle zone that is the Cambridgeshire Norflok boarder. If you don't hear from me; I regret nothing. Apart from wearing shorts under waterproof gear, it was like cycling to the Torture Garden earlier.

Haha, I hate those idiots who don't dip their lights too. I took a trip out from Saffron Walden to Baldock the other day, to try out the A507. Came back a different way, via Reed on the A10, mostly making the route up as I went (54 miles total). Met a Discovery3 coming the other way, blinding me as I rode up hill. I sincerely hope the crunching/scraping sound I heard as he veered toward the verge/bank was expensive. Not my fault that I couldn't see that I'd moved into the middle of the road, as a result of the bldy searchlights he was shining right into my eyes (He eventually dipped his lights, just as they came level with my front wheel. A little late, no?). Don't the RVLRs make it an offence to drive so as to dazzle other ROAD USERS with high beam or badly adjusted lights? Maybe I should borrow a Sharkeye torch from the boys in the guardroom, so as to give them a little of their own medicine? or maybe these fools should just get over themselves and start treating cyclists as legitimate road users who are entitled to a little courtesy too???

As an aside, the A507 is really NOT a good cycling road around the evening rush. Tamped with re-treads who absolutely MUST get back home in time for Pointless. Buntingford end is a crap road surface too, but a couple of good smooth sections up and down the hills just before arrival in Baldock.

Mobile updates this week. My laptop did die, but it was caused by Uniblue instead of a hit and run driver. Uneventful morning. Three drivers failed to dip their headlights, two because they couldn't see me through the one by three inch square of ice they'd cleared from their screens.

Looking forward to the snow if we get any. ;-)

Looked out of my window this morning at four o'clock and went back to bed for half an hour. :cloud9

Cycled in without incident on my slicks and an hour later it's snowing.

Good mileage for Jan that chap. Watch your average speed go through the roof in February.

Set a new record this morning.

-8.5'C

Took an extra ten minutes and every time I tried to go more than 15mph it felt like my front brake was engaged. Bloody knobly tyres. Hope it snows enough for them to work later. ;-)

I was happily cycling in the snow but within three miles there were six cars in hedges, dykes or other cars. So I turned around and drove to work instead.

Glad I did as well because I spent the first two hours digging and gritting pathways.

I thought I did well. Trouble with fresh snow is the road looked flat. Happily trundling along when you hit a hidden pothole or other object then you get a wobble on that cuts into the snow making difficult to straighten out.

Knobblies are rubbish! Pump the tyres up fir the road and they're useless in snow and slush. Let them down for snow and slush and they're useless on treated roads. Grrrrr!

Either way it feels like I'm towing a trailer with flat tyres. The slicks will be back on for work Friday.

Now my laptop is working again here's a photo from the other morning...



...I made three or so miles in tht before I took the car instead?

Didn't look as bad at the time.