Last month, rather than being helpful though, we didn't give you any guidance on how to make sure your bike would make it through winter. Instead we just asked you what your best piece of winter kit was.

Many were unable to whittle it down to one item, but most were to do with keeping dry and warm. A good cycling jacket, fleece or be layer proved the most likely suggestion - it seems that keeping the alrgest part of your body warm does wonders for the soul while you're riding along, especially if that top is also windproof.

Close behind were two items which we thoroughly expected. Good headwear was always likely to be there - I still remember as a kid being told that some ridiculous percentage of your heat it lost through your head, and since then have been religious in covering up. Most people would seem to agree, with anything from balaclavas to simple Buffs making an appearance. And secondly a good pair of gloves. As a sufferer of Raynaud's disease, a hereditary quirk designed to stop kids joining in with building snowmen and snowball fights, this is something I have striven for for years. And, as the song goes, I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

But from the suggestions of gloves which came in there's bound to be something in there to try. Slightly less expected with a lot of votes were booties (whether specific winter shoes, or overshoes). Never having tried these, but with my toes regularly suffering the same fate as my fingers, the support for this particular garment has convinced me that it might be the way forward. Vented shoes are all fine and well for dealing with the sweat of summer, but when it comes to a -5 start to the morning the last thing you want getting to your feet is the air.

In our next poll we're getting all nosy about how much you spend on your cycling kit. Just head over to the citycycling pages at anothercyclingforum.com to take part.