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All 5 riders on a CC ride on NYD ended up on the deck.Sheet black ice across entire road.Wouldn't have thought it as temps have been well above freezing lately.
Someone local told them it had been like it for at least a week.Strange I thought.
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Hope all were OK
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PedallingSquares wrote: 2 Jan 2023, 11:56pm All 5 riders on a CC ride on NYD ended up on the deck.Sheet black ice across entire road.Wouldn't have thought it as temps have been well above freezing lately.
Someone local told them it had been like it for at least a week.Strange I thought.
Happened to me as I rode in a group of three once. The two in front went down and I had to lay the bike down to avoid riding over one of them. I had some spectacular bruises. Which part of the UK was this?
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Just outside a village called Cridling Stubs, East of Pontefract on the West/North Yorkshire border.It's flat with some narrow roads with high hedges so possibly low Winter Sun doesn't hit that stretch of tarmac.
Cowsham wrote: 3 Jan 2023, 12:49am Hope all were OK
Just shocked I think but no broken bones or bikes!
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PedallingSquares wrote: 3 Jan 2023, 12:16pm Just outside a village called Cridling Stubs, East of Pontefract on the West/North Yorkshire border.It's flat with some narrow roads with high hedges so possibly low Winter Sun doesn't hit that stretch of tarmac.
Cowsham wrote: 3 Jan 2023, 12:49am Hope all were OK
Just shocked I think but no broken bones or bikes!

That's good to hear. Cridling Stubs is that when your taking corners too hard in the car.
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It's the wet season on the Somerset levels. I'm having to carefully pick my routes to avoid getting wet feet. 3 roads out of the village have had their flood gates closed forcing all traffic onto the one remaining open. Some pics in BBC news link.


Heavy rainfall leaves Somerset Levels severely flooded - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-64153653

This is the closed road on Curry Moor heading to the river Tone on New year's Day. Plenty of rubber neckers me included walking down to view the flooding. Lots of twitchers too.
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Cowsham wrote: 3 Jan 2023, 1:03pm That's good to hear. Cridling Stubs is that when your taking corners too hard in the car.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
One of the many odd/strange village names on this Island.There's also a Walden Stubbs a few miles away.It seems Cridling was Criding until a couple of hundred years ago.Criding being a local surname.Stubbs means a clearing where stumps were left.So Stumps near Criding(family?) and Stumps near Walden(family?) became Cridling Stubbs and Walden Stubbs.
Got to love a bit of British history.
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Last Friday It stopped raining for about 6 hours -- I got out on my bike.
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Cowsham wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 9:08am Last Friday It stopped raining for about 6 hours -- I got out on my bike.
You should be so lucky. :roll:
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peetee wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 10:52am
Cowsham wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 9:08am Last Friday It stopped raining for about 6 hours -- I got out on my bike.
You should be so lucky. :roll:
'Round here, the constant rain has also been horizontal. The worst thing is, as I sit here typing pugles & hooterings into this keyboard 'cos I daren't go out in the sturm und drang without a large collie to hold me down in the wind, the solar panel monitor shows but 25 watts of production! I may have to sue the weatherman for loss of free electricity.

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Cugel wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 12:55pm 'Round here, the constant rain has also been horizontal. The worst thing is, as I sit here typing pugles & hooterings into this keyboard 'cos I daren't go out in the sturm und drang without a large collie to hold me down in the wind, the solar panel monitor shows but 25 watts of production! I may have to sue the weatherman for loss of free electricity.

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While working out where and how high to position the wind turbine :mrgreen:
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Well I suppose all those reservoirs that nearly emptied last summer are filling back up...
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simonineaston wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 2:50pm Well I suppose all those reservoirs that nearly emptied last summer are filling back up...
Hull pot on the way up Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales has filled up!The waterfall only appears after rain but this is unusual!

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Biospace wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 2:48pm
Cugel wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 12:55pm 'Round here, the constant rain has also been horizontal. The worst thing is, as I sit here typing pugles & hooterings into this keyboard 'cos I daren't go out in the sturm und drang without a large collie to hold me down in the wind, the solar panel monitor shows but 25 watts of production! I may have to sue the weatherman for loss of free electricity.

Cugel

While working out where and how high to position the wind turbine :mrgreen:
Perhaps a move to Horton in Ribblesdale would help. That Hull Pot waterfall would surely generate some fine watt-hours via hydro-electric gubbins. Also, it would make it easier to practice for The Three Peaks. (No, not me, now).

Pen Y Ghent was a favourite walk and occasionally a bike ride, until we moved to Wales. The cafe at Horton is a fine old-fashioned spot. Pints of tea and so forth.

I once shared a house with another ex-student (in our early twenties) who took up cave diving, with an aqualung! He tried to get me to go down places like that Hull Pot. Oh no, no, no!

He survived, somehow, with awful tales to tell of near watery graves far below in the pitch black crawl holes, caked in mud-slime and the rain due. Eyewwww!

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simonineaston wrote: 11 Jan 2023, 2:50pm Well I suppose all those reservoirs that nearly emptied last summer are filling back up...
The Rivington system of reserviors(Lancs) is now,thankfully,back to full Winter levels after a Summer of the lowest levlels I've ever seen in the 50odd years I've been walking and riding up there.
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