Thread: Snow

Originally Posted by alex1921

Wow. We had those kind of crazy low temps few years ago when the polar vortex came to visit us.
I was working overnight and had to drive home in the morning. The car, body, springs, everything was just sounding different.

I remember the old bias ply tires that got flat spots in that kind of weather. You sort of humped along for a bit till the flat spot came out. Not a problem with radial ply tires though.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

I remember the old bias ply tires that got flat spots in that kind of weather. You sort of humped along for a bit till the flat spot came out. Not a problem with radial ply tires though.

Bob

Never had those!

Originally Posted by STF

Never had those!

You youngsters don't know what you missed out on.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

You youngsters don't know what you missed out on.

Bob

Wish I were youngster Bob. 60 on Monday!

I probably haven't seen them because I grew up in a different country, but it is also possible that they were called something else in the UK.

The tyres we use now are called Radials in UK, the tyres we used to use before Radials were called CrossPly. I wonder if they were what you called BiasPly.

Ours didn't freeze into flat spots but then it doesn't get that cold in UK.

I actually think it feels worse in UK than the cold here because the cold in UK is damper and gets right into your bones.

Originally Posted by STF

Wish I were youngster Bob. 60 on Monday!

I probably haven't seen them because I grew up in a different country, but it is also possible that they were called something else in the UK.

The tyres we use now are called Radials in UK, the tyres we used to use before Radials were called CrossPly. I wonder if they were what you called BiasPly.

Ours didn't freeze into flat spots but then it doesn't get that cold in UK.

I actually think it feels worse in UK than the cold here because the cold in UK is damper and gets right into your bones.

Yea, bias and cross ply mean the same thing. Yea, it has to get cold like here for those flat spots to appear which I doubt it did in the UK. Yea, you are right in that if it is damp out the cold feels even worst. Add a wind on top of that and it cuts like a knife. I was visiting in Montreal one winter when the weather was like that. Never felt so cold in my life compared to T-Bay.

Bob

I lived in Alberta for a while and kept hearing about why Ontario winters were so much worse because of the dampness. My reaction was to suggest that when it’s -40 °C, I didn’t think there is much humidity in the air.

Originally Posted by DZEC

I lived in Alberta for a while and kept hearing about why Ontario winters were so much worse because of the dampness. My reaction was to suggest that when it’s -40 °C, I didn’t think there is much humidity in the air.

You're probably right David. I used to scrape the frost off my windscreen in England with my credit card, nothing compared to the cold in Canada but OMG it felt cold and took ages to get warm, that was proper damp cold.
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

Damp is more uncomfortable than freezing cold, IMO.
Gets into the bones and won’t leave. Minus 20 and below is kinda invigorating.
Great to breathe and engines love the air mixture once they are warmed up.

I recall in the old days on cold mornings the donkey didn't want to pull the cart and the stone wheels were really uncomfortable. Sometimes we had to push the donkey down the Apian Way.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I recall in the old days on cold mornings the donkey didn't want to pull the cart and the stone wheels were really uncomfortable. Sometimes we had to push the donkey down the Apian Way.

In bare feet, uphill in both directions.