Cold weather, short days, snow coming=crabby!

[Mr. Bloom]

+1 on the crabby!

I'd encourage you to get proper clothing and ride on decent weekends when you have time...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lots of layers of thin wool that I can put on and take off.
As long as it's daylight, the road is dry and it's above 20F, I can go for a ride.
Balaclava (sometimes 2), several layered gloves, regular pedals and heavy insulated hiking boots with good wool socks. Helps to have a decent sized saddlebag where you can put layers you peel off as you warm up.
I keep my rides shorter, 20 miles or less when it's really cold.

[lph]

Good gloves, good shoes or shoe covers, something thin to cover your ears and face, blinkies and studded tires. Winter is a blast Well, snow isn't, but once the snow is plowed, riding in the cold isn't that hard.

[OakLeaf]

Yeah I'm crabby too. The sun comes up so late now that especially on a cloudy day, I don't have a hope of waking in time for a group ride unless I use an alarm clock, which I HATE waking up that way.

I so carefully set my alarm last night and for some reason it didn't go off this morning. I woke up with still time enough to do the club ride if I rushed rushed rushed. I got up, looked at the clock, rushed around for about 15 minutes, realized that I had 5 minutes to get dressed, put my contacts in, load the car and eat breakfast if I wanted something more than scarfing a Pro Bar in the car, and even then I'd have to keep the gas pedal floored the whole trip ... looked at the weather report (44°, chance of sprinkles, mostly cloudy and high of 58°) and just blew it off.

Plus one of my riding buddies sent an email around late Thursday night, looking for somebody to ride with yesterday, and I didn't get that until too late yesterday morning either. So another riding opportunity blown yesterday.

Grrrrrrrrrr.