Originally Posted by
Machka
I have commuted in -40C/F, but this ride was in -32C/-25F ... I talk about my coping mechanisms, what I wear, etc.
http://www.machka.net/brevet/Coldest_Century.htm
I've heard that plastic parts can become that brittle, but I've never had any bits of my bicycle fall off.
When I was out in -40C last year the plastic clamp for my planet bike blinky light cracked. Not the part that wraps around the handle bars but the platform that the light slides onto. I ended up just taping it on with electricians tape to get home that night.
I've got to say, to me, -25C is fine, but -40C sucks...