Ok, fess up, who's the crazy?

[Dan_K]

So who was it that I saw this morning in full ACC kit riding past Fairfield Halls at 8.50am??!!

Dude, it's snowing!

[Amy]

Saw three of the usual suspects riding through Hackbridge as I went for the train... Roads weren't too bad though slushy in places - pavements were worse

[Rob Q]

Coulsdon is pretty bad and they have closed my office in Walton on the hill. Whoohoo, where's that MTB of mine

[jon avery]

My boss told me not to come in! I don't need telling twice, spinning bike is calling me

[huw williams]

[quote="Dan_K"]So who was it that I saw this morning in full ACC kit riding past Fairfield Halls at 8.50am??!!

Dude, it's snowing!

[quote="huw williams"][quote="Dan_K"]So who was it that I saw this morning in full ACC kit riding past Fairfield Halls at 8.50am??!!

Dude, it's snowing!

[Andrew G]

15 miles through the slush on the MTB this morning, still haven't got around to buying crud catchers yet so arrived with a very spleckled face and a damp bum. I was in the City by 8.20am and didn't have ACC kit on though.

It was nice crunching the tyres through the snow down to the main road but once there it was just slush and narrower roads staying in the car tracks between the slush stripes as much as possible. Bit parky mind you and the carrier bags didn't stop the wet getting through to my socks so my big toes' felt like George's.

[Will]

the main roads that I would have used for my journey were all ok - actually better than on monday morning when it was colder

i probably should have cycled in although the journey home would be interesting given the likelihood of all the wet/slush freezing

[Mike I]

Felt a bit of a numpty when I emerged in my wellies from Canary Wharf tube this morning to be greeted by nothing more perilous than a slightly damp pavement. It's chucking it down now though, so by the time the 5 o'clock hooter goes I shall just look well-prepared .

[Dan_K]

Faced with the "world-ending" news on the BBC this morning, I thought that my office would be empty so i'd wear casuals in.

The office is as full as usual and i'm the muppet sitting here in jeans and boots.....

[Jon H]

[quote="Mike I"]Felt a bit of a numpty when I emerged in my wellies from Canary Wharf tube this morning to be greeted by nothing more perilous than a slightly damp pavement.

[Gavin]

It wasn't me ............ as shaggy used to say.

[adrian]

Punted in on my Dutch grandad bike (chosen for its wider wheels, bomb-proof robustness and the fact that I could lock it anywhere en route if things got too bad, and still expect to find it there the next day) in jeans and walking boots. Turns out to have been much ado about nothing - needn't have done anything different. Room for one more on the back if you get fed up with the Tube, Mike.

It (the snow) does appear to be coming down a little heavier now, though. Maybe an early exit is in order...

[sonic909]

Well... i've just been out around CSS area on my carbon beauty.... and its awesome!

Photos to follow... around cane hill/farthing downs its well deep, like drifts up to my knee in places... SAVAGE!

[Andrew G]

Well that set a record, 2 hours to get home.

It was okay for the first bit through Central London but once I got up Denmark Hill it was very slushy and some of the road was compacted slush and slick as a slick thing.

Carefully down the hill towards Dulwich and wow there that's a lot of traffic not going anywhere quickly. I started overtaking them as normal but the road just off the cars' path was really dodgy, with lots of patches of black ice. I managed to get across to the pavement and rode up that on the nice crunchy snow.

College Road was just one big sheet of black ice from one end to the other, that doesn't stop cars trying to go up it though . I met another guy on a mountain bike and we had a nice chat while we rode up the pavement through the snow, getting to the hill bit and cars were slipping all over the show and being abandoned.

Up to the top at Crystal Palace and the roads were still dodgy as hell and the traffic was locked solid. Again down the pavement carefully as there were a lot of folk walking here. Starting down Anerley Hill and the top was still very slippery so continued to carefully roll down the hill on the pavement in the snow, slippy in places due to all the foot traffic. Lots of folk walking as the buses seemed to have stopped running around here.

From half way down I could get back on the road with some careful line choices to stay out in the middle a bit away from the slick surfaces. From Elmers End on there was hardly any traffic at all, very few cars, and then up and over Gravel Hill tonight as the Glades would have been a bit iffy.

Glad to have the MTB for today but that was a tough commute.

Didn't see any sign of a gritter and some of the roads are really dodgy, some near me are already nearly sheet ice with the compacted slush.