Right there with you as a fellow Chicagoan.
I only took a few days off - the days after those two 'snow-storms' that dumped 6-9 inches on us. The roads were still in pretty terrible shape for slick tires, unfortunately. Ever since then it's been unreal how awesome this weather is. It's my first bike-winter, and I'm sad to think that this winter is an extreme outlier and it won't always be like this.
Originally Posted by
Steely Dan
so January has ended and it is typically the toughest winter month for those of us in cold weather climates in the northern hemisphere. I'm curious to know how well you all did with your bike commuting this past month. the math is easy. count up the number of days you went to work/school in january, then count the number of days you rode your bike to work/school in january, then divide the latter by the former.
being that i had a week vacation down in cancun earlier in the month, i only had 16 work days this past month, and i rode my bike for 14 of them (i took the train twice, once because of a 6" snowfall, and once because of an after work commitment) so my bike commute percentage for the month was 87.5%.
how did you do?