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Snow

road.cc's tips for riding on ice and snow

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Riding on ice and snow

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Icy bike

Before you set off…

Maximise your contact patch. Road bike tyres have a larger contact patch on the road than a more knobbly mountain bike tyre, and you can maximise that precious contact further by fitting a wider tyre, and/or not running it at quite such a high pressure. That said, in snow or looser conditions a treaded tyre or even a lightly knobbed MTB or cyclocross tyre will give extra grip.

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What to wear when it's freezing

What do you wear on your commute when it is zero degrees outside? Is it different to what you wear out training in the same temperature? The difference for me is in footwear and that depends on what bike I choose to ride.

here is what I wear:

woolie boolie socks
merino pants
rapha 3/4
merino base
merino track top
soft shell jacket
specialized sub zero gloves

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Snow Commute, North Oxford

Found this video of an Oxford cyclist's intrepid commute last week.

Film is a bit speeded up, but nevertheless he/she appears to be flying - couple of nasty wobbles, but doesn't deter them from giving the camera a wipe every now and again.

Commute is along the Banbury Road, finishing on St Giles with St John's College to the left and the Ashmolean Museum to the right.

National CX Champs postponed

Just read on the British Cycling Website that the National Cyclo-Cross championships in Sutton Park, which were going to be held this weekend, have been postponed until the 6th + 7th Feb.

Nuts! I was going to go to this, and was looking forward to it taking place in the snow. I bet the Belgians wouldn't cancel for a bit of snow!