Winter cycling is a recipe for hypothermia, frostbite, and pneumonia.

[Octet]

No such thing as bad weather. It's bad clothing and equipment. Simples.

Or to quote Sir Ranulph Fiennes, "There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing"

 

[CopperCyclist]

I've managed to avoid all three problems so far, and I ride all year round!

Ice patches though, I'll give you that. I've come off in the ice, once.

 

[Booyaa]

I best put the bike away then. Thanks for the information cyclist.

 

[Octet]

What I want to know is, how on a forum filled with cyclists, why no one thought of having their username as "Cyclist" until now?

 

[rbreid]

What I want to know is, how on a forum filled with cyclists, why no one thought of having their username as "Cyclist" until now?

Surely none of us would be so arrogant

 

[Octet]

Surely none of us would be so arrogant

I'm not sure how calling yourself a cyclist is arrogant?

 

[Sara_H]

No such thing as the wrong weather, only the wrong clothes.

 

[Roadrider48]

Buy a Castelli thermo suit.... Good from 3 to 15 degree

http://castelli-cycling.com/en/products/detail/681/

Very nice suit. A bit pricey though....

 

[Sara_H]

No such thing as the wrong weather, only the wrong clothes.

Ooopsie, TMN points for me!

 

[classic33]

What I want to know is, how on a forum filled with cyclists, why no one th.ought of having their username as "Cyclist" until now?

Er, there's cyclist33, cyclist55, cyclist65 & cyclist365 on here!

 

[snorri]

Er, there's cyclist33, cyclist55, cyclist65 & cyclist365 on here!

Yebbut no Real or Serious cyclists

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

What a wuss!!

 

[classic33]

Yebbut no Real or Serious cyclists

Give you those two

 

[shouldbeinbed]

all those ice patches on the ground that will easily send a cyclist falling over and off the bike and slamming full force into the ground, which is often like solid cast iron in the winter time due to it being frozen solid.

tee hee I wonder who cyclist really is and how bad the hangover was this morning?

They've got a point here tho, in the summer I really like falling off as tarmac is such a soft and forgiving surface to land on

 

[Bryony]

It totally baffles me as to why anyone would be so suicidal as to go bicycling in winter's deep freeze, even in temperatures as cold as the low 20s Fahrenheit and often even colder. It is true that I see them all bundled up like eskimos, but bicycling is a form of exercise, and when you exercise, you sweat. And when a person sweats in all that clothing, the sweat eventually saturates the clothing, rendering it's insulating capabilities totally ineffective, literaly making it as though you may as well be bicycling naked. In fact, from learning experiences, once all layers are soaked in your sweat, the sweat can actually become a conductor, pulling heat away from your skin and pulling the deep freeze against you, causing your core body temperature to potentially drop like a brick, leading quickly to certain hypothermia and even pneumonia. Not to mention the constant freezing wind rushing past you as you bicycle, causing massive and extensive frostbite on every single square inch of exposed skin. Another thing that really wakes me up at night for those people who go riding in the winter is all those ice patches on the ground that will easily send a cyclist falling over and off the bike and slamming full force into the ground, which is often like solid cast iron in the winter time due to it being frozen solid. Especially considering even people on foot that slip and fall on that same ice have suffered fractures, including broken hips, and someimes even concussions and occasionally even skull fractures.

And your point is??