And I thought cycling in Minneapolis was cold...
04-08-10, 01:48 PM
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And I thought cycling in Minneapolis was cold...
Random article about a Smart Car driving across the Artic Circle. Did not expect to find anything cycling related in a driving-across-a-frozen-tundra story.
https://jalopnik.com/5512708/ice+road...a-smart-fortwo
At one point we were at the summit of a pass on the border between Northwest Territories and Yukon provinces. We were about 2,500 feet up and the wind was blowing a steady 90 mph. The temp gauge read minus 15 Fahrenheit. With the wind chill, it felt like 60 below. We'd been driving on backcountry ice roads for several hours and met a crazy Italian cyclist riding solo across the tundra.
Is that guy insane?
https://jalopnik.com/5512708/ice+road...a-smart-fortwo
At one point we were at the summit of a pass on the border between Northwest Territories and Yukon provinces. We were about 2,500 feet up and the wind was blowing a steady 90 mph. The temp gauge read minus 15 Fahrenheit. With the wind chill, it felt like 60 below. We'd been driving on backcountry ice roads for several hours and met a crazy Italian cyclist riding solo across the tundra.
Is that guy insane?
04-08-10, 02:53 PM
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Not as insane as anyone who actually bought one of those cars.
