Good gloves, good shoes or shoe covers, something thin to cover your ears and face, blinkies and studded tires. Winter is a blastWell, snow isn't, but once the snow is plowed, riding in the cold isn't that hard.
Good gloves, good shoes or shoe covers, something thin to cover your ears and face, blinkies and studded tires. Winter is a blastWell, snow isn't, but once the snow is plowed, riding in the cold isn't that hard.
Winter riding is much less about badassery and much more about bundle-uppery. - malkin
1995 Kona Cinder Cone commuterFrankenbike/Selle Italia SLR Lady Gel Flow
2008 white Nakamura Summit Custom mtb/Terry Falcon X
2000 Schwinn Fastback Comp road bike/Specialized Jett
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.
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler