dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
Cancellara's packing it in so you might as well....
Quitting cycling
- Thread starter G3CWI
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It's not about money for me (although I get the point).I actually get free travel (or already paid for in a way I guess) to work,though I don't use it.
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
Four reasons:
1. Commuting through the winter gives you a fitness head-start when Spring arrives.
2. Get to the car. Windscreen needs clearing of ice. Cold inside, and you have to suffer / shiver until the car warms up. Bike? No windscreen, and you can get warm by riding harder. The destiny is in your hands.
3. Traffic is worse. You save more time in winter than summer.
4. You are badass. You can already be smug for having the sense and fitness to use your bike rather than a car. You can be even more smug if you do this through winter.
Fortunately there is enough high quality kit to solve the rain and cold problems, making sure that you arrive toasty and dry.
1. Commuting through the winter gives you a fitness head-start when Spring arrives.
2. Get to the car. Windscreen needs clearing of ice. Cold inside, and you have to suffer / shiver until the car warms up. Bike? No windscreen, and you can get warm by riding harder. The destiny is in your hands.
3. Traffic is worse. You save more time in winter than summer.
4. You are badass. You can already be smug for having the sense and fitness to use your bike rather than a car. You can be even more smug if you do this through winter.
Fortunately there is enough high quality kit to solve the rain and cold problems, making sure that you arrive toasty and dry.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
I don't commute until March either, but I have several major intersections to cross in the dark, as well as poor road surfaces. It's dark when I get off work, so I just get my cycling done on days off.
Do what you can, the hardest part is actually getting out of bed when its dark cold and wet. I was cycling in all weathers up to this year but now, I take the car occasionally. Don`t beat yourself up about it, why feel guilty ? Take a break and get back on it, rest is good !
Origamist
Legendary Member
Or commute to a cafe and then return home. Choices, choices...
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Commuting is my only real time I get to ride lately,by the weekend I am generally too tired for a good ride ATM and its the only"me" time I get.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I reckon if i drove I'd think ***k it! and jump in the car instead... but my only other option is walking
so the bike is the easy option 
OP
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G3CWI
Veteran
- Location
- Macclesfield
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I think maybe I am being a bit too hard on myself for walking instead of cycling. I will see how it goes over the winter. A CX bike is a good idea - but is unlikely to happen (sadly). My hybrid feels a very heavy ride compared to my road bikes and that's certainly a factor.
After December it seems quite an effort to set out down the dark lanes of Cheshire when a walk or direct ride home is so much easier. I clearly need to "man- up".
After December it seems quite an effort to set out down the dark lanes of Cheshire when a walk or direct ride home is so much easier. I clearly need to "man- up".
Arjimlad
Tights of Cydonia
- Location
- South Glos
PS - I also find that buying the right gear helps - knowing I'll be comfortable on the bike - but also thinking that now I've gone & bought it I had jolly well better use it.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Yes. Buy the right gear. A 46 x 15 is ideal.
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
Why do you want to cycle in winter?
Racing roadkill
Guru
It's nice not to have to do battle with the fair weather knobbers, who think everybody wants a flipping race the entire time, for one.
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I've been cycle commuting for over 30 years, for almost all of that time I only had my bikes, for a large chunk of that time where I was working wasn't easy to get to without a bike or car, and with a family to support and a mortgage to pay the car was out of the question so I rode. A couple of years ago with the lads having left the nest and with the mortgages paid off I started to drive again, but I still do most of my commuting by bike, and I still commute right through the winter, these days I get the car out if the rain is is beating on the window when I get out of bed or if I have an errand to run and I can't run it on the bike. But I still get the same sense of satisfaction when I roll up at work or home having beaten foul weather.
