epicyclo
Senior Retro Guru
Up there, weather is always guaranteed. It's the type that varies. When we decided on Aultnabreac a month or so back, I was hoping for a few feet of snow to play in.
But thanks to roadies using CO2 canisters and causing Global Warming, our snow was warmed up to a balmy 2ºC and fell as rain. Bloody roadies!
It was not Shakespeare's "Gentle rain that falleth...", it was the more robust wind assisted Scottish version, but it could have been much worse.
There was a solid line of black on the horizon coming rapidly towards us and darkening the sky, but we were back at the van before it caught us and before Jamie's bike disintegrated (never mind self-ejecting brake pads, just don't ask him about spring links
). It caught up with me on the drive back south...
However can't complain, it was fun as usual, and when you consider the latitude is north of Moscow, Juneau in Alaska, or almost the same as the southern tip of Greenland, the weather was kind.
The track was heavily potholed, the sort of thing that can make a ride a misery, but with fatbikes it is all part of the fun, and we got no wetter than we would have anyway.
I'll remember this as the Splish Splash We Had a Bath GFBD.
But thanks to roadies using CO2 canisters and causing Global Warming, our snow was warmed up to a balmy 2ºC and fell as rain. Bloody roadies!
It was not Shakespeare's "Gentle rain that falleth...", it was the more robust wind assisted Scottish version, but it could have been much worse.
There was a solid line of black on the horizon coming rapidly towards us and darkening the sky, but we were back at the van before it caught us and before Jamie's bike disintegrated (never mind self-ejecting brake pads, just don't ask him about spring links
). It caught up with me on the drive back south...However can't complain, it was fun as usual, and when you consider the latitude is north of Moscow, Juneau in Alaska, or almost the same as the southern tip of Greenland, the weather was kind.
The track was heavily potholed, the sort of thing that can make a ride a misery, but with fatbikes it is all part of the fun, and we got no wetter than we would have anyway.
I'll remember this as the Splish Splash We Had a Bath GFBD.
