Further to Mark’s post re the Bicycle Icicle, views from Wales:
From a spring day with frolicking lambs on Friday:
To snow stopped cycling on Sunday
and the poor farmers are desperately trying to save the lambs
Owing to deep snow and too many icycles, this event is cancelled. Many apologies.
Mark
In case you’d somehow overlooked the fact, it’s our First Event of the Year tomorrow and the weather isn’t looking promising from a cycling point of view. I don’t want to cancel it yet because all the forecasts say something different and there might be someone out there unafraid of the zero temperatures. If the snow doesn’t hit us over night, there’s still a possibility that the roads will be dry, but it’s important to bear in mind the effects of cold on the accumulated choss which covers copious sections of the route. It really was very dirty out there yesterday when I rode the full route in fine conditions.
My reluctant recommendation would be not to ride the Icycle tomorrow. If anyone chooses to ride and s/he comes to grief, then they must accept the fact that they chose to ride against my recommendation; I will not be held responsible!
I’ll be posting an update at around 8.30am tomorrow morning, at which point I will decide whether or not to officially cancel the event. So if you’ve still not decided to call the whole thing off, please check out this page tomorrow after 8.30am.
Here’s hoping for a heatwave over Easter!
Mark
I have spent most of this week indoors because of a cold, so have taken the opportunity to sort out some old photos. As a result I have been able to upload a few club photos from 2005 to the online archives, at
http://www.jeggo.org.uk/wsctchistarch/photos_2005.html
If you have any photos to submit to the archives, please get in touch with me.
The dinner on Saturday is scheduled to go ahead as planned. I have sent an e-mail to all those who have booked with further details, if you have not received that e-mail please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you.