Things I like and hate about winter cycling
Like
- riding through fresh snow
- big fat snowflakes
- how clean the air feels
- sun off the snow
- people thinking you are mad and/or have ninja bike skills
- riding down a deserted, silent bike path or foot trail and everything is hushed and still
- when it's over
Hate
- ice
- slush
- cold feet
- freezing rain combined with h igh wind... it just gets in no matter what I wear
- how dark it is all the time
- brown, bare trees, everything grey and dead
- waking up and it's still dark, hearing the wind howling outside, and I have to get out of bed and go
- all the prep to get ready
- people are meaner and angrier in the winter
- car exhaust!
- snowplows, the great big ones that go fast
- salt and grit all over me and my bike