Originally Posted by
trustnoone
Anyone here ride in the winter? Not winter in Vancouver, but winter in a cold city like Edmonton or Winterpeg?
One more health item when it comes to winter riding. Unfortunately for reality, cycling in cities in winter is actually quite bad for your lungs and indirectly your whole body. As the cold winter air creates in inversion with the exhaust fumes and traps them at ground level. When cycling with traffic in cities, your lungs work harder and the pollutants from the exhaust do enter your lungs at a greater rate. There is very little research done on this, however I am supposing from logic that the lesser the traffic, the lesser the inversion, hence the lesser the pollutant risk to your lungs.
But I do it anyway, maybe one day the government will come up with something like this: "
must use gas masks to cycle in winter"
