.........wind driven snow, do you know where your Huffy is?
Sure, on a road trip to The next town over. I got the 62 Huffy down off the rack and aired up. By the time I got to Orleans my front tire went flat, so I hoofed it the last mile to my LBS. The wind was light but still into the freezing zone. The sun was trying to make its feeble presence be known. I'm not sure what the cause for the flat but I aired up again and kept checking it while I hung out at the bike shop. So......just chatting away with my friend without the bother of any business to bother us, I was suddenly hit with snow squall. Not a bad thing when your inside but a problem for the 5 mile trip back home. This included a small crossing at the edge of the salt marsh where the snow would be the most wind driven. I bid farewell to the bike shop.
Just before I got to the salt marsh at Namskaket Creek the visibility was reduced to about a few hundred feet. I got to the creek at the bike stop and it cleared a little for some pictures.
My treads.
This salt marsh later on today will flood higher at high tide with the storm surge. There will be white caps on the water just above the marsh grass.
I ran into this elderly lady a few minutes later.
As it turned out as I was about to pass, this lady drops her bike right in front of me on a snow covered patch of ice.
I layed mine down and slid into her trying to hold my bike back from hitting her. No one was hurt. She had another 4 miles to go and I was half way home. I don't know if she made it home she seemed pretty tough for an old coot :shock:
Best ride I've had this new year 8) I made it home with air to spare.
Graylock
Sure, on a road trip to The next town over. I got the 62 Huffy down off the rack and aired up. By the time I got to Orleans my front tire went flat, so I hoofed it the last mile to my LBS. The wind was light but still into the freezing zone. The sun was trying to make its feeble presence be known. I'm not sure what the cause for the flat but I aired up again and kept checking it while I hung out at the bike shop. So......just chatting away with my friend without the bother of any business to bother us, I was suddenly hit with snow squall. Not a bad thing when your inside but a problem for the 5 mile trip back home. This included a small crossing at the edge of the salt marsh where the snow would be the most wind driven. I bid farewell to the bike shop.
Just before I got to the salt marsh at Namskaket Creek the visibility was reduced to about a few hundred feet. I got to the creek at the bike stop and it cleared a little for some pictures.
My treads.
This salt marsh later on today will flood higher at high tide with the storm surge. There will be white caps on the water just above the marsh grass.
I ran into this elderly lady a few minutes later.
As it turned out as I was about to pass, this lady drops her bike right in front of me on a snow covered patch of ice.
I layed mine down and slid into her trying to hold my bike back from hitting her. No one was hurt. She had another 4 miles to go and I was half way home. I don't know if she made it home she seemed pretty tough for an old coot :shock:
Best ride I've had this new year 8) I made it home with air to spare.
Graylock
What do you think the odds are that you just happen to run into another cyclist on a day like that. Id be buying a lottery ticket.
