Originally Posted by
Steely Dan
it sure is amateur hour out there these days.
the other 9 months are so pleasurable to ride in chicago, but summer is far and away the worst. oh what i wouldn't give for a nice 20 degree january morning and have the entire lakefront all to myself.
I hear ya.
I do like the solitude of Winter, knowing that any other cyclists I see are more likely to have their wits about them.
In the Summer, I get torn between the excitement that so many people are on bikes and the despair that such a high percentage of the ones I see are clueless and/or dangerous.