Steve T
Well-Known Member
Not my bestest idea, going out for a spin on the Alp, given the time of year and the weather that we up north have been experiencing.
No temperature gauge on the Alp, so I relied upon the rule of thumb temperature gauge - my right one
. Got a bit mangled in my youth playing rugby, and it's the first part of my anatomy that suffers whilst cold weather riding.
Stuck to the local roads that were black . . . . and even they had smatterings of ice on them
, so good forward observation was essential.
Thats a not very high hill in the back ground - Ben Rinnes, so you get an idea of how much snow we've had and at fairly low level.
This one was taken on a track on which my F8GS had a little lie down earlier in the year.
Bike was white with salt after very few miles, and my thumb was going a strange shade of blue by the time I got home.
Think I need to invest in a set of proper knobblies if we get much more of this stuff - Conti Escapes are OK on gravel and hard mud, but this white stuff tends to send them into a slide at very slight lean angles . Still, the buttocks got a good work out, gripping the seat at every little twitch . . . . of the bike and not just the sphincter! 
Steve T
No temperature gauge on the Alp, so I relied upon the rule of thumb temperature gauge - my right one
. Got a bit mangled in my youth playing rugby, and it's the first part of my anatomy that suffers whilst cold weather riding.Stuck to the local roads that were black . . . . and even they had smatterings of ice on them
, so good forward observation was essential.
Thats a not very high hill in the back ground - Ben Rinnes, so you get an idea of how much snow we've had and at fairly low level.
This one was taken on a track on which my F8GS had a little lie down earlier in the year.
Bike was white with salt after very few miles, and my thumb was going a strange shade of blue by the time I got home.
Think I need to invest in a set of proper knobblies if we get much more of this stuff - Conti Escapes are OK on gravel and hard mud, but this white stuff tends to send them into a slide at very slight lean angles
. Still, the buttocks got a good work out, gripping the seat at every little twitch . . . . of the bike and not just the sphincter! Steve T
