Sno' cycling

There are braver soles than me out there, all wrapped up in their super warm cycling gear, or just bearing the freezing cold through their lycra, but I haven't cycled to work since 2009. I felt like I admitted defeat early by buying a week tube pass early last week but my bald fat tires were already prone to skidding a little in the wet so they definitely wouldn't be happy on ice.

My bike would quite like a new pair of tires with decent mountain bike tread, but I'm hoping these ones will hold out till I find it a new home in March. In the middle of last week's crazy snow days, I looked into how to make studded snow tyres, but seems its a fairly permanent DIY job which requires a spare set of wheels with decent tread to start with, and might not be so easy riding once I get out of the ice-lands of North West London to central London where there's still dry tarmac around.

We managed the ten minute ride to the supermarket on Sunday in a light snow blizzard but that's been the extent of my cycling efforts for more than two weeks.

This morning I was actually looking forward to riding into work. The roads were drying up nicely after a couple of snow free days and ice was all but melted. Yet again snow foiled my commuting plans, a few inches had stuck to the ground overnight and a fine mist of snow continued to drizzle until lunchtime. I'm not quite sick of the freezing cold / snow / craziness yet but much more of this and we'll have to invest in sleds...