Does The Blizzard of '16 Affect You?
Originally Posted by
Colorado Kid
I've seen reports on the news how bad things are for those affected in the Blizzard of '16. My question is this, is anyone riding through the deep stuff?
Unlike the
Snowpocalypse (three consecutive and cumulative big ones in 2015…see picture), Boston received about 4 inches by my estimation. On Saturday night after a couple hours of snowfall, I rode through about three inches of new fallen snow on a MUP on Schwalbe Marathons. The biggest problem was I couldn’t make out curbs, but I knew where they were; and the snow was sharp and stinging.
But by Monday,
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
… I also rode this AM on the Jamaica Pond Bikepath at about 25⁰F, thinking to myself that after Saturday’s snowfall, the path was passable and virtually pristine with scant ice and hardpack snow. Then I ran into a single patch of deeply rutted snow near the boathouse, about 20 feet long, and had to dismount and push.
