Originally Posted by
FanaticMN
Carnage in Minneapolis as a snow squall during the morning rush hour dumped just enough white stuff to cover all the ice patches refrozen from yesterday's melted snow. Apparently there were over 100 pedestrians treated for falls, and bicyclists didn't do much better.
Where did it come from??? The new gal on KARE11 didn't mention a thing about it at 6am so I took my road bike. The white stuff started falling 3-4 miles from work, but the slicks cut through without a problem.
Today, the bike handling on cornering started getting a little squirrely eight miles into my ride. At eleven, sitting at a stop light, I squeezed the front tire. Not good. It was 17F degrees with another twelve miles to go. I didn't relish the thought of a cold fix alongside the road, so pedaled my heart out. The tire was pretty squishy toward the end, but it held out. So, the fix gets to occur in 70 degree office comfort.