Great Lakes - chicago women on fixies???

listen. none of my friends ride bikes anymore.

i'm the lone lady on a fixed in the winter snow and summer sun and when it comes to having cycling questions, wanting to go for a bike ride, maybe doing some routine maintenance, i've got no one to talk to...

as a sort of squatty/busty/volumptuous german-midwesterner busting it around on a fixed most the time, it'd be cool to have someone to hang out with who maybe can understand that battle with crack and muffin top (although i think we all have some crack wars goins-on).

tell me chicago has some sort of group for the lady biker?!

you want chifg.com (chifg DOT com)... i think you have to wait a day for approval before you can post.

"busty"......?I,m down with that:)

chifg.com? sweet. thanks. hopefully i'll get approved.

a fixed gear on these roads? I popped both 700 x 23 cm tires on a pot hole with my road bike in december. My solution for cracks and muffin top is simple: bigger tires. I have been riding a mountain bike since november, and aside from the rusty chain, my mountain bike is a winter warrior.

as far as going for a bike ride goes, I'm down.

a fixed gear on these roads? My solution for cracks and muffin top is simple: bigger tires.

absolutely not! bigger tires? never dream of it.

although did do some crazy winter conversion to a mountain bike last year and that think was exactly as you described "a winter warrior". too bad the chain destroyed chain wheels...a mystery to myself and every bike shop i took it to. i think i was taking an overhaul class at Turin at the time too boot. no idea...sad really...it was a beast.

my fixed has taken a beating two winters now, and the wheels prevail even...pothole after pothole.

hopefully i didn't jinx myself.

I ride with boots and my toes still freeze. do you still ride when it is -5 degrees outside? sorry about your winter warrior going down. how wide are your tires? I figure once I get a decent pump, and switch to platform petals, I should be able to ride my road bike all winter too.

I ride with boots and my toes still freeze. do you still ride when it is -5 degrees outside? sorry about your winter warrior going down. how wide are your tires? I figure once I get a decent pump, and switch to platform petals, I should be able to ride my road bike all winter too.

-5? yes. there is a windchill cut off...i think -11? i don't remember. it's been so warm recently! although winter needs to go home.

my tires? uhm they are 700x28c! and i find a fixed, although slower in the winter, sometimes able to hand a few more things...like when i'm going over multiple ice humps, it *feels* like i have more control over the tires, whether or not it's true i wouldn't know.