Bike, snow, ACF 50, Ace Cafe

I had planned to meet up with a few folk tomorrow to ride to the Ace Cafe where they are holding an “Adventure Day” with speakers like Austin Vince of “Mondo Enduro” fame. The freezing weather and snow are putting this in some doubt. My road hasn’t been salted and after a fresh fall of snow last night (not too much thankfully) and temperature below zero, it has been looking unlikely that I will be able to get my bike safely out of my road to the roads where salt has been spread. I had a trial ride through the snow and slush that has started to form this afternoon as some sunshine raised temperature above freezing and it wasn’t too bad but temperatures tonight are forecast to go as low as -10 degrees in places which could render my trial meaningless.

Just in case I sprayed exposed bits of the bike with ACF – 50 to ward off the salt I will encounter tomorrow if I do go out on the bike. It would have been better had the bike been really clean before I started but I sprayed over the dirty bits! I had to shake the cold tin a lot before it would spray properly and even then, it wouldn’t spray through its little tube. Still, I think I kept it off the brakes at least. The last time I used it, I got some on the brakes and hard a hard time getting rid of it and it made the brakes practically useless!

I shall see how things look in the morning and make up my mind then.