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I used to ride twenty miles to work over Bulbarrow in Dorset on a Suzuki GP100 when I was 17, whether it was rain snow or ice. I had an open face Nolan piss-pot helmet and no goggles because they steamed up, just a scarf - which froze. No proper biking gear, just wellies, my overalls and waxed coat and dairyman's waterproof over-trousers. Didn't have any bike gloves. Wore a 1960's vintage pair of my Dad's leather driving gaunlets which weren't waterproof.

I was working in a farm. When I got there there was no time to warm up. Straight in with the feeding and the yard scraping, nowhere warm to sit to eat my dinner and at 6 pm put on my still-wet gear and ride home again.

We've barely had a winter this year. One week of snow and a few frosts but nothing much. At least up here it's been relatively dry compared with last year.


I can identify with the above, though only 10 miles on a Raleigh Runabout, wellies plastic coated cotton over-trousers and a donkey jacket.
 
@BobTheBounder finally made it to school..
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I used to get a lift to school from my Aunt Pauline. She was from Romford, she wore cheap perfume and chain-smoked Sovereigns in the car.

I think I have you sissies beat.
 
I can identify with the above, though only 10 miles on a Raleigh Runabout, wellies plastic coated cotton over-trousers and a donkey jacket.
I lived in Winterbourne Houghton and had to ride to Holwell, Bishops Caundle. It was plenty far enough on 100cc bike. The worst bit was going up over Bulbarrow and down Stoke Hollow into Stoke Wake. If you hit ice you just had to hope for the best.
Surprisingly I never had any accidents. All my crashes happened on the way back from the pub for some reason..
Before that job I'd worked on farm in Cheselborne and had to ride there on an AP50. Over Bulbarrow again and through Ansty.
I survived better than the bikes. Plastered in shit for most of the time and rarely if ever serviced. I got through a few.
 
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