Re: Getting old is not for sissies

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 2/28/2025 11:24 AM, cyclintom wrote:

On Fri Feb 28 11:14:11 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

 
Sorry to hear that. I was riding over lumpy wet ice in a gravel parking
lot yesterday. I was very conscious that falls can now have much worse
consequences than they once did.
 
But I think it's still important to keep giving ourselves reasonable
challenges, to maintain skill and agility.

 
 
 
 
I expect that your old steel touring bike is more apt for conditions
like thqat than Andrew's higher performqance bike.

 
Wheelbase, tire width, tread or rider position would make no
difference leaning into a turn over ice.
 

In my experience seems to tally with that, longer bikes with fatter tyres
and so on, only make a difference on areas with marginal grip not zero grip
or near zero!

I’ve been caught out even off road with ice on a old Tram road which the
ice had at one spot reached sufficient thickness not to crack under my
weight, so I tipped over an cracked my wrist which was seriously painful,
not helped by me riding home on it which really wasn’t wise!

Catstrike bike is probably quite fun on ice, though I’m told that studded
tyres are good on ice.

Never tried it as well it doesn’t get cold enough for frequent ice around
London on the roads, though do get snow and ice to varying degrees, but bar
my experience above ice off road isn’t a problem and the MTB in particular
can just plow though the Snow.

Roger Merriman