Should you be riding in this weather?

Freezing fog, ice and sub zero temperatures…. is this wise?

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Well that’s Sunrise the Sun is up apparently good morning and welcome to an absolutely freezing Sunday morning ride oh my gosh I think someone’s forgotten to put 50p in the meter I don’t know what’s happened to the weather but it has turned decidedly freezing again in fact it’s minus 0.3

This morning and as if that wasn’t bad enough we’ve got freezing fog as well so you’ll have to excuse the buff across my face but I’ve got ice forming on my gloves at the moment and I don’t fancy it forming on my face what are we doing

The happier news is that Sunrise is getting earlier and earlier so as we set out at 6:30 this morning it was only half light and now at 6:55 the sun has come up here it’s Sunrise believe it or not I mean despite the cold it is very

Pretty pretty very much a winter scene if only it wasn’t the beginning of March well the temperature’s now dropped to – 2.2 and uh I have ice forming on the hairs of my legs maybe that’s why the pros shave their Legs we love this road we love it for the view there I heard a deer a pheasant a gazelle a gazelle yeah wow do we even get them over here the Tumbl down walls traveling Brooks treelined Road the Railway Bridge The Ivy clinging to the trees the embankment wrapping itself around

You the straightness of the road and the tunnel Jimmy does like a moment down this road and I can hear Tom behind me complaining that his legs are the same color as my jersey today how are the legs doing Tom yeah they’re good mate they’re glowing he doesn’t need any

Lights just put his legs out a car will see him next purchase long johns I quite like having them out though we’ve got another massoch in the Yes man after my own heart Tom very much like me does like a short whatever the weather be bold start cold

Yeah this is the big seven right I’ve actually even put my arm sleeves on the morning I was that worried about my upper body being cold the legs not worried about but the arms yeah they do get a bit cold oh and just to address the elephant in the room cuz

I’m sure you’re wondering yeah I couldn’t find my full tuck cap this morning so this random one I got from AliExpress would have to do keeping the head warm so far so it’s fulfilling its purpose in life ice oh oh it suddenly turned very icy under wheel we’re now on the back Country

Roads which don’t get driven very often so there’s no car car tires to mulch up all the ice which helps get rid of it funnily enough so as we came across a little bit of the road there it sounded decidedly crunchy with the ice but we’re

Going up hill again now and Ice RAR forms on a hill so hopefully we should be okay still very foggy Mind the Sun is up there somewhere trying to come out try harder everything is now getting an icy crust formed on it I’ve just noticed even my sleeve is oh what is going on the legs have got even worse as well we’ve just stopped very quickly because

I’ve brought us on the wrong route so we just stopped to check where we were going and yes uh I didn’t take the right turn thought I should have done about half a mile back and uh we realized that everyone is now forming ice Jimmy’s got

Ice on his arms I’ve got ice on my legs but as Chris has just pointed out I think I much prefer this to last week’s ride when it was absolutely pouring down and we were riding through Lakes good fun oh yeah but you don’t need it every

Week so yeah ice rather than rain I think that’s what we’re saying I Think Jimmy’s just coming out with a question uh what was it again Jimbo I’m just reflecting you know we’re all entitled to do last week I think I did say something to the effect of where would you rather be in a nice warm bed

Tucked up under a warm D or here out on a ride in the sloshing wet and uh I’m just throwing that idea around in my head this morning I think for once Jimbo’s decided that maybe staying in bed might have been a better idea no no that’s the most

Negative thing you’ll ever hear Jimmy say I’ve warmed up now let’s go where would you rather be Chris here or in bed in bed no Question right well as you can tell the temperature has dropped somewhat again and now I’m going up what is a little bit of a nemesis of a hill for me up into suffron Warden it’s not even that steep it’s just a long slow drag oh boy

But there is a decent descent the other side of it which is good unfortunately though I won’t be able to put my glasses on because uh they’ve completely frosted Up right I’ve had to hang on a sec the lens on the GoPro is even Frozen up right we’ve had to stop because having tried to stop at the bottom of that Hill I couldn’t uh my front brake is seriously deficient at the moment so

I’m going to have to try and pull the cable to tighten it up a little bit because as it currently stands I can’t stop very quickly right let’s get this done right that feels a bit better hopefully I’ll actually be able to stop Now and now as if the freezing fog wasn’t bad enough we’ve got wind is it me or is this fog getting thicker I don’t know if it’ll pick it up on the camera but you can actually now see the fog being blown across the road sideways oh boy this very much takes me

Back to Jimmy and I in the aisle of white on that fateful absolutely awful weather day this fog is so thick now it actually feels like it’s raining So here’s a question for you in a couple of weeks time I’m going to be going up to Birmingham to work at the photography show at the national Exhibition Center now I ordinarily get the train up there but this time I’m thinking do I ride up

There it’s 109 M and I’d have to do it on my gravel bike because that’s the only bike that I’ve got a Pana rack for and Penny of bags and quite honestly I wouldn’t fancy strapping loads of weight to this carbon fiber bike so 109 M on a

13 Kil bike with another probably 15 to 20 kilos of luggage on it all the way up to Birmingham what do you think should I do it I might even be able to get a nice ride in along the canals while I’m up there very nice what do you think though

Solo ride 1009 M I’m not sure I’m a little uh Trepidacious oh that is a nasty little climb it’s got a lovely little drop down to it doesn’t matter which way you come at it there’s a lovely little drop and then the climb out woo that is a leg burner how’ you find that she is a filthy mistress that filthy mistress

Well we’ve just been passed by the local Walen valow Cycling Club and now Chris has had a caffeine shot he’s decided to join them not that you can see him now in this vog oh you’ve decided to rejoin us have you you’ve had enough of you new

Friends we were doing like 24 M an hour and I was struggling to keep up with it you know your friends when they decide to jump off with another group yeah we’re not quite ready for the headyy heights of Wen V we’ll stick with our party

Pace going back to the idea of cycling up to Birmingham for a second I’m hoping that the weather has significantly improved by the time I have to go up there because this weather today ain’t it Well there we go 30 m in 2 hours down and despite the freezing fog despite the icicles growing on every part of our bodies we’ve made it and as ever no regrets for getting out early well maybe a couple of regrets at 6:00 a.m. right let’s get

Home we dragged out another 30 m on a day like cold wet it’s freezing fog water in the eye slushy Road potholes multiple things 30 m still down still got out that’s what it’s all about you need to get out push yourself out don’t let any excuses get in your

Way so yeah as Jimmy was saying despite the weather 30 m done and uh talking of the weather we seem to have experienced pretty much every condition that mother nature could throw at us over the last 3 weeks 2 weeks ago we had floods and Sun last weekend we had absolutely biblical

Rain and floods and this weekend freezing fog we only need snow next weekend and we have had the full winter set although having said that I hope we don’t have a snow next weekend because it’s going to be a heavy cycling one for me because on the Saturday I’m heading

Out with my 11-year-old son to do the 56 mile tour of Cambridge and then on the Sunday Jimmy is running the Cambridge half marathon and so it’s become a bit of an annual event now where we bike up to Cambridge we sit down and have a bit

Of breakfast while Jimmy runs the half marathon and then we CLE the 30 Mi back again so there’s going to be a good 116 Mish done next weekend uh so I’m looking forward to that but it is going to be a bit of a heavy one so I’m hoping

There won’t be any snow next weekend Oh and actually talking of doing the tour of Cambridge roids I have a bit of a rush job to do this week because I recently bought my son a carbon fiber frame and he and I set about trying to

Put it together yesterday but we had a few problems chief of which is the secondhand Shimano 105 shifters that I bought for it the left shifter didn’t work despite the listings saying that they worked perfectly it just doesn’t seem to be catching or engaging or pulling any of the cable through so I’ve

Taken that up with the seller on eBay and I’m waiting for an answer back on that and I’ve had to buy an extra left-and shifter but here is the bike it’s a full carbon fiber Planet X rt58 frame I think it’s called and as I say it’s going to have full 105 groups

Out on it because it’s his first proper bike first 700c wheel full size small adult bike so I didn’t think he was ready for algra a jewel race but I wanted to put something a little bit special on it for him so I need to this week Rush getting that done because he

Needs to be riding that next weekend so fingers crossed that’ll happen and that build video with the two of us putting it together will be coming out in the next couple of weeks if you’re interested in seeing that but yes otherwise thank you very much for watching this video it was extremely

Foggy today but as ever very very enjoyable so I hope all of these videos over the last three weeks have shown you that whatever the weather you can still get out and have fun on the bike so thank you very much for watching and I will see you in the next one take

Care