Spire... I know you think I'm nuts, but the thing I like about cycling in the fall is getting up for an early morning ride @ 6:00 and getting out in time to see the sun rise. Sure, it's cold, but when you get out and the sky is grey in the false dawn, and then the sun comes up and you see your shadow long and sharp against the ground, that's something special.
It's before the cars and the people and all the crap... and when I turn arund in Ste-Anne's or Senneville, I get to see all the poor slobs in the highway 20 gridlock heading to work.
I'd have to get up at 4:00 am to ride at dawn in the summer...