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Fascinating How do Europeans keep ice off bike lanes? Salt?
by nicehill 4y ago
Fascinating
How do Europeans keep ice off bike lanes? Salt?
- dagurp 4y agoIn Reykjavik they used sand at first because pedestrians prefer that but that is pretty dangerous for cycling so they use salt on designated cycling paths and sand everywhere else.
- jkaljundi 4y agoTractors and snowplows. Salt kills the bicycles and salty slush is much worse to drive in. Hard packed snow is actually the best to ride on. Interestingly Oulu bike roads clearing contract states the company doing the snowplowing can do inspections only on bicycles, not cars :)
- nicehill 4y agoMaybe hard packed snow is a strategy for only flat cities Seattle infamously tried the hard packed snow strategy about a decade ago, and it turned it into a dangerous (hilly) ice rink
- avianlyric 4y agoThere's a difference between riding on hard pack with a bike, and driving a car over it. I have no idea why you think an experiment with hard-pack snow on automotive roads is in anyway indicative of what works on cycle lanes.
- nicehill 4y agoHard pack on a hill doesn't seem to make sense for bicycles either
- xorcist 4y agoIt depends. Salt only works until ten below zero. After that it only makes things worse. When it works the result can be magical if combined with sweeping. Trashes the drivetrain real bad though. There's a nice big picture how Oulu does it, halfway down the article.
- pastage 4y agoIt depends.. salt works down to -18C on cycle paths as long as you maintain it snow free and do not have big puddles of water. Brushing the snow away down to the asphalt is my preferred surface condition for cycling.
- Xylakant 4y agoThis video is a great explainer https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU