Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > How are you doing in the snow?

[Ray]

Not so grim in this part of the North. Some areas a few miles away have had a lot more.

Nowt much around here, about an inch. Not bad enough to pull the ABS fuse anyway, but enough to have a play on where it's frozen.

The tyres fitted to 99% of vehicles on UK roads just don't work on snow & ice, even on the chelsea tractors, hence the whole job grinds to a halt.

Don't fancy the trackday on snow at the Nurburging then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9SAYvGJsw

About 1 min 40 in, the funs begins.............even in a beetle coupe

In the sticks up here it's DIY gritting on the hills, the council just leave a few little heaps at the roadside so you can sort yourself out if need be.

Ray.

[bradders]

snowed in the office for the second time this year! This time, I decided to wait and see if teh traffic improved - it didnt! So got the train back to Fareham from Basingstoke and left the car, as did loads of others

last had a text at 19.15 from a collegue who left the office at 14.45 and was less than half a mile up the road on the one way out of the estate! Oh dear...

[Dementor]

Alton area in total chaos.....Hampshire County Council obviously thought it would be a good idea to let the snow fill all the potholes that they left from the Summer Not been able to get out of my drive since the snow on Friday, no gritters....nothing... plain incompetence t*****s

[PHIL-THE-DRILL]

Quite bad around the New Forrest
Fancy a lap of the IOM tt course ?http://www.gov.im/tourism/webcam/webcam.aspx?webcam=6
Snowmobile over the mountain perhaps?

[John W]

I was expecting it to be a nightmare, given the reports of the M25, M4, etc being gridlocked.
It was snowing as I headed up the A3M from Portsmouth, but not really settling. Some of the back roads are bit on the entertaining side even in a range rover, but they were all passable.

I'm looking for an excuse not to go to work tomorrow, but its not snowed here yet. Just my luck

[Chris Wood]

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..."

[NBs996]

Where the heck do all you lot live? Not even a flutter of snow down here in portsmouth... bright sunshine, bone dry roads, just a bit chilly. Might get the r6 out this afty.

[Guido]

Originally Posted by NBs996

Where the heck do all you lot live? Not even a flutter of snow down here in portsmouth... bright sunshine, bone dry roads, just a bit chilly. Might get the r6 out this afty.

And just to add salt (pardon the pun) into our wounds even more Nick, I bet all your highways depots have mountains of salt in them too.........Must be like heaven

Gc

[jerryz]

No snow here