Three reasons why it's no fun to bike in the snow - or, why I'm looking at the timetable for Tram 16

[ridicully]

1. The widely used technique to clean the road and the sidewalk by piling the snow on the bicycle-lane.
2. Brakes which are freezing when the bike is parked for some while outside. It's something you notice about five seconds after starting again, especially when you're driving down a snow-covered ramp in those five seconds.
3. The back of my trousers being first drenched and then, by the feel of it, freezing to my arse. Now that it's thawed, I can wring muddy water out of my underwear.

Comments

[sputnikkid.livejournal.com]

Well... I think it sounds funnier than it actually is...

[ridicully]

Oh no, I think it's fun too - now that I'm at home again *g*
And to every onlooker it has to be pure comedy. I'm cursing and shouting loudly while I'm slipping around on the ice.

[ryf.livejournal.com]

Number 3 is bad, bad, bad, I agree. I have no other choice but to use the bike, though. I live in Münster, also known as bicycle city, after all.

Number 2 hasn't yet happened to me, but I had a lock freeze in so much that it took me a very long time to open it.

And number 1 is evil.