Cowsham wrote: ↑13 Jan 2024, 7:26am
You'll never know -- none of the natives would be brave enough to approach a mad 2m tall Scottish cyclist.
Although if I'd seen you at that I'd probably want a go myself -- much to the protests of my wife. You might start a new cycle race event.
Did you use the studded tyres?
Scottish?! You take that back!
Originally from Derby, though I'm half German.
I would be extremely surprised if I wasn't the first person to cycle it. There are literally hundreds of lakes within 30 minutes cycle of our house and on Strava, there are lots of perfectly lovely gravel road segments where I'm one of 1-5 people who have ever ridden it (on Strava). Proportionally, there are probably an average number of cyclists here compared to the UK, but the population is so incredibly low. About 9-10 people per square km, versus an English average of over 440. And most of the people here are in a collection of villages and small towns. And finally, almost all the serious cyclists that I know don't cycle outside in winter. They tend to use Zwift and then go cross country skiing or run.
On studded tyres, yes. Totally and completely secure. No slipping whatsoever, but very slow. I was holding about 17-18kph at 130bpm (which translated over to my other bikes with power meters is a power output of 240-250w) as there was about 2cm of fresh ice cystals/snow on top of the sheet ice.