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Old 01-06-14 | 09:09 AM
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wphamilton
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From: Alpharetta, GA

Bikes: Nashbar Road

Snowing this morning in Atlanta! I'm hoping for some accumulation but it's not really likely.

I considered this morning to be a practice run for this evening and tomorrow when we expect -15° C. It's been so long since I've seen that temperature that I don't quite remember how I handled it so I went in for overkill. Hopefully. I built a sort of hard-shell poagie out of cloroplast, but extended it all the way across to double for extra cargo capacity. It also blocks a little wind. Then I took some Plasti Dip rubber spray and doused an old pair of sneakers, which now have a kind of porous rubber exterior. Finally I found my old thermal insulated jumpsuit, must be 35 years old but still in decent shape. So far so good; I had to stop and strip off layers and unzip the jumpsuit, thinking I must have been mistaken and it didn't cool off yet. Well, we'll see.
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