Spiked tyres will help counter the slip.
Starfire wrote:
I don't know how you guys wake up so early to ride. I like my sleep!!
I'm making an assumption here Starfire, but I'm guessing your quite a few years younger than myself. I've been getting out of bed at 0500 or earlier for the better part of 27 years, with the exception of a 8 year gap where I was doing shift work, so every second week on arvo shift I could sleep in. Oh, and there was the year that I took all of summer off work and bummed around the beach, played golf, went fishing and visited Fraser Island for two weeks. Ah, that was heaven.
So, getting out of bed at 0400 for a commute or a weekend ride is no big deal. I still like to sleep in occasionally, but I find that come 0600 I'm awake and wondering what I could be doing other than sleeping.
And the other guys will back me up here when I say that riding during summer when the sun starts to peek over the horizon is just magical. No cars, no peds, little noise and clean air.
Kev.