Well weve definetly had snow this month. We might not have had a white Christmas , but were much more likely to have a white Valentines Day. Last week schools all across the uk were closed for many days due to heavy amounts of frozen precipatation falling from the heavens (aka snow). The local High School here in Malvern was closed on Tuesday 3rd of February, and Thursday and Friday 5th-6th of February. I sadly didnt get all three days off as i had to go to work, but i did get Thursday off, due to colledge being closed. This was the day when i found out how fun , and easy, it is to drift a mountain bike.
I went outside at about half past ten, and found about two and a half inches (maybe more) covering the road that i live on. I decided to try riding on it. It didnt seem to be any diffrent to normal as long as you didnt turn to sharply. Then i tryed drifting, hehe, it was VERY easy to get the bike to go sideways, leaving tracks that wouldnt look out of place on a slippery road sign. By the time that smatt came out at about eleven oclock there wasnt much pristien snow left. Which he was fine with as neither of the other bikes would lockup due to V brakes not working well in the snow.
As we live right near a local Golf Course , and we didnt think people would be playing due to the thick coating of Golf ball hiding cotton, we decided to go have a look. And unsurprisingly there was no one there , and the snow was undisturbed. Well, by the time we left after about fourty minuetes i couldnt say it was undisturbed. We didnt do much damage to the perfect surface, only a couple of Tobogan tracks and a few tracks left by my bike. The snow was thicker at the golf course and due to this i managed to get my back wheel jambed up with snow. It was fine after removing all the snow.
On the Friday , i had to go to work. My boss offered me a lift, but i declined his offer. Instead i turned into a bicycle collection service. I was asked by my mum if i could go to her bosses house and collect a key, i happily agreed and set off into the snow on my Yukon. Mums bosses house is higher up the hills then our house, so i was forced to climb up the main roads in slush, until i came to some quite steep wiggley side streets , which were hardly touched. I climbed up these roads , got to mums bosses house then turned around and flew down hill to work, i managed to get a max speed of 27 mph , hehe. I was probably one of the fastest moving cyclists that morning (except maybe wozzer)
And that concludes the current snow cronicals of Benni. I say current because as im typing there is more and more snow falling, however i dont think im going too go out in it as its just gone five in the afternoon
Yours in writting , Benni (8th February 2009)
