Take care! Nearly came off when hitting ice on the A3 Slip Road at New Malden. Water has been flowing onto the road for some weeks but tonight it was black ice. If you encounter any dangerous ice report it through 999.
I don’t get it. Is Giuliano a Lawyer or is he just the dude who knows all the rules?
If it is the latter, come play D&D…My friends don’t know the rules!
Columbo, don`t be such a conobulist, Giuliano is the holder of all truths and associated knowledge, if he says “ice” it must mean the temperature has dropped bellow zero.
Picking up a salient point (not saline as this would lower the freezing point of water to well below 0 degrees) I once threw a 2 metre icicle down an escalator in Val D`Isere which was very dangerous, is it too late to phone 999?
Nearly slipped on some myself just now, on my way back from Heathrow. Was turning right into my road, was about a meter of sheet ice where some water had spilled off the pavement and onto the road. Bike slipped, my right foot went down and caught it, didn’t break (having learned from my off) and went past it and straightened up! Scared the pants off me
By the way - heated grips on toasty, muffs on, and undergloves mean winter riding isn’t actually all that bad, even at an indicated -2C
-simon
I am not a lawyer, but am a judge!
Giualano will you let me know when all the ice is gone so I can get my bike out of storage?
See my other thread.
Can we start a thread called Ask Giuliano…
Why not?
Pisstakers
Who… us…
I have noted that you have mentioned conobulist in both this thread and during our much appreciated and detailed input into the Riding Game thread:D Is this Mr Jet’s New Word For the Week? I would like to know…
My new word for the week is ‘qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm’ which can be looked up in the Urban Dictionary for a definition.
Right - back to ice - I have always found Guiliano highly knowledgeable about the weather, following a brief debate a couple of years back on here, when I quoted Metcheck at him and it turned out Guiliano was right and Metchek and I were wrong :D. So now - if Guilano says it’s icy, it’s icy - he is the weather guru of LB. When he says it is time to get my summer wardrobe out from the suitcases under the bed, I will happily obey:D:D
Julian says it’s the perfect weather for nude sunbathing…
The sun was certainly out all day!
Water on the road still tonight on the slip road by the derelict Thales building when coming off the A3 at Shannon’s corner so watch for ice again tonight if you go that way.
Came through there again today, with care, in the car. Water still running onto road. There is now a two seater sports car abandoned at the side of the road with the offside front stove in …