tjspiel

A woman from the article: "There's was a certain level of bad-assery to it".

Though I've collected better clothes, lights, and equipment to make it easier, I confess to enjoying that aspect of it.

My winter bike used to be this black Bianchi "cross country" bike with purple logos. Kind of an early 29'er. I had converted it to drop bars and it looked like a road bike on steroids. With the studded tires it would been at home on the set of a Mad Max movie.

A guy was eyeing it on the elevator ride up to my floor one morning. As he got off, he looks back at it one more time and says: "That is one bad ass bike".

Best compliment I've ever gotten on one of my bikes. Sadly, during the Spring of a few years ago my son was using it to ride it to school. It got stolen.