Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
...I posted:I have been impressed by Toronto’s mass transit system. How well can it accommodate you and your bike?
For myself, it’s rare I can leave for home before 7 PM for my 14 mile, off-peak reverse commute, and by that time, traffic is pretty light. Except for about a one mile dark stretch, I feel pretty safe, but peering frequently in my rearview mirror. More often though, I take the Commuter Rail home.
Thanks for the opprtunity to reply. 
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Originally Posted by
mcours2006
Toronto's transit system is great if you live near the downtown core area, or somewhere close to the subway line, and if I lived and worked there it wouldn't be an issues.
But because I'm in the suburbs the buses don't run as often and it'd involve a substantial amount of walking it didn't make sense for me to use it.
I figure on a day like yesterday it'd have taken me just about as long to use transit as it is to run.
I ended up leaving the bike at work. Conditions were just bad this morning, so I opted to drive there.
None of us are too please with the late fall snow.
Thanks for the reply, Like real estate, for cycle commuting…Location, location, location.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
Emergency Winter Cycling Kit?
I too ride on urban / suburban routes with similar measures, but early, before 6 AM. I envision going to an indoor ATM machine to fix a flat, so I carry a bank card too…
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I have only about three times called a taxi on my decades of commuting, all in temperate weather. I haven’t used Uber yet, so I don’t know how long wait (and inactive) times would be, especially in the early AM,so I would prefer to keep moving in the cold.
PS: I also use Kevlar tire liners year round, even on my fair weather carbon fiber road bike, to hopefully forestall flats.
Originally Posted by
TimothyH
How Do You Feel About Winter?
Love it?
Hate it?
Ambivalent?
Not Applicable (live in Hawaii)?
Originally Posted by
TimothyH
Discuss!!!
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
Accept it.
PS: Just after posting, I saw this reply to this General Cycling thread, "Do you sometimes feel like you hate your bike?":
Originally Posted by
mcours2006
My bikes are like my children--I love all of them, and the one I favour varies from moment to moment, day to day.
I'll tell you what I hate, though. It's winter! It's the cold, the snow, ice, frozen brake lines, numb toes and fingers. That's what I hate!
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 11-17-18 at 07:28 AM.
Reason: added PS