Yeah, I've moved temporarily to Bloor/Ossington area, so my ride in is very short. I'm actually moving a little more west on Roncesvalles - so once settled in there, I'll be able to make use of High Park in part of my rides.

Spadina Av. is a pretty big artery, so most of the snow/slush/ice was only on the sides of the road, the road surface was basically clear, so it was plain sailing.

I ride a Dyno Victory (XMart cheap MTB) with what I would guess is pretty standard 21-speed MTB gearing (I think my 7th cog is a 12, no idea on my FD size sorry). The sprint I did at that speed wasn't for long, maybe a mile at most (Spadina/Harbord -> Spadina/Richmond).

Last night I had just started out from work and cranked it up on Adelaide toward Spadina (to head back north) and lept it into 7th, the chain jumped and got jammed between the cassette and frame, joy. Easy enough to fix, but got me worried for a second it was more serious.

Good ride upto my class last night, only my U-lock (OnGuard) fell out of it's mount and half the bottom plastic casing broke off, which I collected from the road along with the lock. I'll have to ask them re: warranty on that one. The lock fell off AGAIN this morning on Harbord, which leads me to think that the locking mechanism that holds it in the mount is broken. Not a big deal to keep it in the backpack, but still, not ideal.

I learned that knobbies don't cut through the snow/crap on the ground any better than my road tyres do, as I was getting some drifting/tracking going on, though I'm sure they grip much better generally. I'm not swapping back to test that, though

I raced an artic (semi) this morning from College/Spadina south to at least Dundas or Queen, he was in the centre-most lane, I was behind some right turning cars on the right. Realizing there was a lot of traffic both behind the truck and behind me, I let it rip to allow them to skip around the slower accelerating truck. Managed to hit 24mph (38km/h I think) for sure (didn't see a 25, but it might've got there), which beat me up pretty good (sprints were never my thing ) for a casual coast into work from Richmond/Spadina down to Camden, across to Brant and south to King.

At least I beat the semi..

Seems around 13 minutes is my current commute, so I'm in that weird "just getting warmed up and into it" stage by the time I get to work, so the sprints I try to do just for the work. I like to ride as fast as I can in order to keep up with traffic, as I believe it's way less of a danger with the lower speed differential. My schedule right now doesn't allow for much alternation of that short trip (2.5 mi or so), but tonight I get to do a bit more - I'm going back upto where I used to live - that might suck on knobbies, going up Sherbourne