Originally Posted by
79pmooney
You cannot generalize on how slippery freezing rain is. If the ground is well below freezing, ice forms and is kept wet, the combo is about the slipperiest surface there is. Here in POrtland I've a few times been unable to walk without using the bike as a tripod. When that happens, I turn around back to the garage and either stay home or chain up my car.
Ben
Well yeah, that's why I said "in those conditions", because I wasn't generalizing. When the streets are already covered in ice, it's normally not already 31° in the early morning IME, and OP would have mentioned it. Should I go out and ride on the ice even though it's raining, something like that.
But I can see that this whole question is too confusing, and people should probably just forget about it if they have to ask and not ride.