Quote Originally Posted by abbey.barclay View Post
Let’s say you step outside and see that it’s a mild and beautiful morning at 30 degrees. While your clothing may keep you warm enough while standing in that 30 degrees, if you start riding the open road and approach 70 mph, it will feel like 15 degrees to you.
cycling at 70 mph often can only be achieved by going down a very steep descent. And even not that many people want to reach that type of speed on a bike all the time. If it's 30 degrees F (instead of centrigrade which is hot) to ride at 70 mph is actually dangerous (and probably rare) because the probability of black ice is very real. At least where I live where we do have some long steep hills but still can ride in the middle of winter.

Introduce yourself abbey under the first main topic of general-cycling. There's a topic thread to give us the goods about yourself.