This was my first Ice Bike morning of the season. We got 10cm of wet snow yesterday and last night that froze into some very icy sections. I had my studs on so I was doing ok, slow but ok. My 5 speed POS IceBike was frozen in 1st gear, probably a good thing as if I could have built up any speed I might have bought it.

One complaint though, on one part of my current commute there is a bike lane I use. Well with all the snow the solid line is not visible thus the motoring public decides it is a good idea to drive half of thier car in the bike lane giving them 15 feet between the two traffic lanes. It nerved me out this morning having cars partially in the bike lane, going 60kph, on ice, with no winter tires. If this keeps up I might have to spec a new, less convenient route to stay away from the cars.