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Cycling through the winter Nell urges cats not to waste great start

On Two Wheels by Rob Derry of Swindon Bicycle Users Group (BUG) The Wildcats ice hockey column with
Mike Wray
During winter quite a few people
put their bikes away for the season. Aaron Nell has told his Swindon
There are also some who put their Wildcats side to be aware of
best bikes away and get their complacency ahead of the run up to
winter steed out of the garage, the Christmas break.
often to the disbelief of their Having gone quietly about their
partner that they have a winter business since the start of the
bike and a summer bike. If you’re season, a dip in form towards the
thinking about carrying on cycling and can change when you get there, end of October which coincided
through the winter and haven’t waterproof is not essential. with injuries to Nell and D-man
done so before, here are a few tips What I would recommend is a Callum Buglass threatened to de-
that I hope you find helpful. good pair of gloves and some thick rail the fantastic start made earlier.
Clean and service your bike; it’s socks as your hands and feet feel “Historically we haven’t usually
not as bad as it sounds; just make the cold more than any other part managed to find any consistency
sure the brake blocks are in good of your body. until after Christmas but we had
condition, the gears and chain work But once you get going, you’ll been hovering around the top of the
smoothly, the tyres are sound and soon warm up. standings up until the tail end of
that everything is lubricated. If If it’s icy, it is very often safer on October,” Nell told The Link.
you’re not comfortable doing that the road rather than a cycle path “It’s disappointing because having be.
yourself there are plenty of bike as the roads are gritted where the kept most of our roster together “We always look to try and play
shops and even mobile mechanics paths are not. from last season, things were going the strongest team available. That
who will do this for you, often for Above all, make sure your lights well and we seem to have let things will be our approach and we’ve
less than the cost of a single car are working and that you carry slip. brought in Matt Selby and Ryan
tyre. spare batteries. “Sometimes, when a team is Aldridge to help bring back some
It is well worth getting some It is even worth investing in a having a difficult spell it’s hard to competitive bite to the side.
mudguards for the winter. They small pair of spare LED lights for get any freedom on the ice, but “We’re respectful of that and
keep a lot of the surface mud, around a fiver. the coming weeks are all about we need to make sure we reach
grit and water off you. It probably You don’t want to be half way everyone pulling together and if we our levels because we owe it to
goes without saying to wear some home in the dark and a light gives do that, we’ll create our own heroes ourselves and the supporters to
warm and waterproof clothes. up or breaks. and moments out on the pad and compete.”
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