Cycling Season coming to a quick end

[danger mouse]

Unless you have lived through a Winter in Alberta you dont know what cold is.

Cycling has got to be out of the question without every inch of skin covered and even then there would be the issue of frozen lungs.

I know these things. I have the frost bitten ears to prove it!!

 

[Drago]

Try a winter in the Falklands if you want to know cold, although I didn't have a bike with me

 

[Saluki]

I'm a bit nesh so I didn't go out today as it was hailing then raining then hailing some more then the sun peeked out for nearly 4 minutes before it hailed again then rained.
I'll go tomorrow as I have an event to do!

 

[ELPTX51]

No offense (just a matter of personal preference) but I'll take that over El Paso, even if I'd have to wear woolly earcovers under the duvet..
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..and I can cook Mexican food at home!

No offense taken. El Paso is definitely an acquired taste and to be honest I'm still acquiring.

 

[Glow worm]

Whats 20 degress , i assume you mean F ?

It's 12 degrees below freezing. It got down to 8 degrees here one night here back in Feb

 

[Davidc]

........

I think the minds of vehicle drivers go numb in the winter as soon as they start the engine along with their driving skills. They are looking for cyclists even less to terrify. .......

Fixed that bit anyway.

We do get temperatures of -7 deg this side of the Atlantic you know! (I tend not to get a bike out when they are though)

 

[fenlandpsychocyclist]

I dump the road bikes and switch to big knobblies on the mtb.
There's nothing better than a 20 mile ride on a crisp january evening after work along a moonlit frozen grassy riverbank!

My highest mileage in a single month so far .... 563 miles in January 2012.

 

[snorri]

Whats 20 degress , i assume you mean F ?

......it is more likely the OP being Canadian was referring to Centigrade.

 

[Crosstrailer]

Had a ride over the weekend into high winds and a hailstorm, got back with an aching face and soaked to the skin and had a great time !!!!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Just because the temperature drops it doesn't mean I suddenly own a car that I can use to get to work!


Having been in New England during one of their harshest winters for years I can confirm that it makes Hoth look like Southern Italy.

 

[ColinJ]

......it is more likely the OP being Canadian was referring to Centigrade.

Which would make sense if ...

1. Sub 20 degrees C were cold, which it isn't, unless we are talking 'very' sub!
2. If he lived in Canada, which he doesn't - he's in Nebraska in the good ol' USA!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I won't post this photo because it has a naughty word on it, but I think this image sums up the weather in Canada quite nicely http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/80512959/

 

[ColinJ]

*** He doesn't live in Canada! ***

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I know

 

[Drago]

Bunch of lightweights, running away from a hurricane when real commuters would be detouring home to cycle in to it!