Originally Posted by
nlerner
Oh, I lived in the SF Bay area for eight years, so I know how nice the weather can be (and how cold it can feel in the winter in the poorly insulated houses I lived in). But it’s been over 30 years for me in the Boston area, and I’ve adjusted. I rode on Monday; the high was 20F. I rode today; the high was 58F. In fact, I rode four out of five days this week because I’m off from work for the holidays. I won’t spend as much time on an individual ride in the cold, but I still ride outside year round. Lots of people do.
When I lived in NYC, I used to ride almost year-round - as long as there wasn't snow on the roads. I'd wear a wind break layer, an insulation layer and a wide muffler crossed across my chest and gloves. I was young and crazy, I guess.
I'd ride from home to school and back - Queens, thru Brooklyn then to lower Manhattan and take the ferry and then on thru Staten Island. I'd ride to Central Park and do laps around the Park just because it was closed to autos on the weekends and it was a non-stop circuit.
I'm older now but I still enjoy the riding, quite possibly for all the same old reasons. The Bob Jackson is still with me as my main ride.