When you're out on your ebike and the temperature drops to -11C

It was at this point on Saturday morning about 7.45am just as Barrie and I were crossing the River Tweed near Cardrona that we noticed our Garmins were giving a temperature reading of -11C. Now we knew it was cold, our fingers and the fact that icicles were nearly forming on our noses told us that, but -11C, we weren't too sure how the ebikes would handle it that cold

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The climb up the Southern Upland Way was hard going on the frozen grass and I had to use a higher assistance mode than Barrie with the result my battery seemed to be eating power bars faster than him, or was it the extreme cold that was doing it?

We eventually reached the mast where we decided against returning to Peebles via Gypsy Glen as that would have meant more climbing in lower gears and potentially more battery power, so we did the slightly longer but easier return route.

The descent from the mast is steep and fast and must involve more or less no battery power for almost 2 miles, when we got back to the cars at Peebles my battery was almost empty, but a great mornings biking even if it was bitterly cold early on!