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25th January 2021, 09:06 | #11 |
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There's terrific ice out there, I am staying in.
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25th January 2021, 09:38 | #12 | |
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25th January 2021, 10:22 | #13 |
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For a while back then I used to take my kids to and from school on the tobogan, easier and quicker.
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26th January 2021, 08:14 | #14 |
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Ah Justice at last, it's so nice to hear of someone south of us having snow we have had slight flurries over the past ten days but not much to speak off. The temperature on the other hand has been until yesterday somewhere between -12 and -3 yesterday the forecast for us this morning was 3" of snow instead we got 2" of rain then the temp dropped to -4.
Anybody got a set of ice skates for a Rover 75 Diesel Tourer, the mud and snow tyres just wont cut it today. Plod don't like it when I put full studded ice tyres on the car. to be honest I haven't owned a pair of fully studded tyres since I retired even then the sidewalls cracking were the reason for changing the tyres on these 15" crowns when I did have them. there were only 30 days every 6 or 7 years that they were needed. Not worth having them any more, and We are not going anywhere anyway, apart from a trip to collect our weeks shopping once a week at the supermarket. Lovely weather. |
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26th January 2021, 12:52 | #16 | |
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26th January 2021, 13:18 | #17 |
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south Essex was missed again. We never get any snow here in Thurrock. Must have been about 3 years ago the last time it snowed, the time before that was about 8 years ago and then 10 years ago before that.
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26th January 2021, 19:06 | #18 |
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These 1st 2 photos was after about 4 hours of snow:
And then this was the day after, I think in total it snowed for about 10 hours. Last edited by bikerdude666; 26th January 2021 at 19:10.. |
27th January 2021, 19:03 | #19 |
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27th January 2021, 22:46 | #20 | |
I really should get out more.......
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I used to run an SD1 Vitesse all the year round using friction tyres during the winter. Yep, rear wheel drive V8 but I've lived here for more years than I care to remember so lots of experience. I've used studded in the past, but although the grip is better on ice, 95% of the time the major roads are dry and studded tyres make a lot of noise and reduce braking efficiency on dry surfaces. Some city streets ban the use of studded tyres because of increased pollution. We're permitted 110 studs per tyre on 15" ones. Studded tyres are by nature more expensive and driving on dry roads wears the studs out. Regards |
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