Old 01-01-13, 06:27 PM
  #9  
jyl
Senior Member
 
jyl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Portland OR
Posts: 7,639

Bikes: 61 Bianchi Specialissima 71 Peugeot G50 7? P'geot PX10 74 Raleigh GranSport 75 P'geot UO8 78? Raleigh Team Pro 82 P'geot PSV 86 P'geot PX 91 Bridgestone MB0 92 B'stone XO1 97 Rans VRex 92 Cannondale R1000 94 B'stone MB5 97 Vitus 997

Mentioned: 146 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 392 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 49 Times in 31 Posts
Originally Posted by Jeff Wills
I was out riding today. Beautiful day , but lots of icy spots to avoid. Made it back unscathed.

I think you're describing something like Rob English's Winter bike: http://www.englishcycles.com/customb...-bike-project/ . It's made it through 3 Oregon winters and 7000 miles of use with essentially zero maintenance.
Good for you! I was in bed with a hangover until 11 AM.

It is getting cold enough that I'm having to remember that, hey, ice is possible now. The other day I was hustling from west bound NE Couch onto the Burnside Bridge. You know the "S curve" there. I was diving into the first S when I realized, uh-oh, the road surface looks different this morning. Too late to slow down but I took the curve as wide as I could. Wasn't icy as it turns out, but at 5 AM it could easily have been.
jyl is offline