Well I will take a little from all your advice...Thanks for your input, it is helpful. Firstly, I will have my asthma inhaler on hand and pre-medicate on really cold days. Second, I will purchase a balaclava to warm the air for cold days and third I will go car-light, my Wife has the "family wagon" and we use it for errands and trips but I really don't want to have to get another car. I actually feel that if all families owned one less vehicle the world would be a better place. I can honestly say that it will only be really badly cold for a brief few months but luckily we get those Chinook winds! So I will "cowboy-up" and bite the bullet. Unfortunatelly the c-trains are very far but I can use the bus on very bad days as long as I am not on an evening shift. You see the bus only runs so late and it literally takes me two times as long on the bus than taking it easy on a bike! Calgary really needs to develop its transit with the population growth.