Originally Posted by
Hypno Toad
I don't mean to offend any of the true Northern climates (temps well below freezing and months of snow cover), I just giggle when some people talk about winter and cold weather riding. I know that Minneapolis riding is nothing compared with winter biking in AK. Or, a friend that lived in Montana for a few years, he'd ride temps much colder than the -25F we occasionally see here. I also giggle at other MN riders with full balaclava and goggles on when it's 45F - I'm in knickers and a wool jersey with the sleeves pushed up (& sweating).
It should also be noted: I am a giant a $ $
Oh, not offended in the least, just clarifying that we have wet sloppy slushy sleety snowy cold months, on top of days where you could seriously get heat stroke from just a mile or two of riding. This past winter we had the arctic vortex, which had me out on my old cruiser in -3 with 15 mph steady wind smacking me across the face at 2 in the afternoon, then we had that lovely ice storm that put 8 million people in the dark. I was without heat, light, or food for 3 days at home & had to sleep in a 38 degree house till we could get a kerosene heater set up (couldnt find fuel).
February 11?17, 2014 North American winter storm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ice storm happened one week before.....
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/I...o-outages.html
So we had the ice storm, then the big winter snowy storm. We got hammered with bitter cold and unusually high amounts of snowfall, but we also on one of the days went from 56 degrees to -2 in the same day, i think that was the week before the ice storm, or back in that january....... that was bizarre.
Edit: Ice storm gallery.
http://www.philly.com/philly/gallery...ia_region.html
- Andy