motivation for me to bike commute a full 12 months out of the year comes from the satisfaction i get from knowing that i'm more bad-ass than 99.9% of my fellow chicagoans, the vast majority of whom are complete and total meteorological pu$$ies. from november - april, the primary pastime of most chicagoans seems to be incessant, ceaseless b!tching and moaning about the weather, but i'm out there in the elements just battling it out, with the knowledge that i'm simply a harder person than all those other chicago wimps scared back into their cages/cattle cars by a little ice and cold.

being tougher than the others is its own reward for me.