Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
I agree with data junkie. I ride 14 miles all winter, down to below zero, and I hate to be cold. The transition to warm weather especially in the AM is long here in Boston. Today at 6:00 AM it was 48*F and I wore my winter jacket, without underlying layers; thin and thick tights; full fingered gloves; and a balaclava as a skull cap. I thought the cyclists in shorts were the newbies. Maybe I just whip up a stiff wind chill due to my velocity.
Jim, you are a brave man riding in Boston in January, given all of the snow we had. I don't ride all winter (skipped January and a bit of February). That said, in the 48*F this morning I was in shorts, and had a short sleeve shirt poly shirt, long sleeve cotton shirt, and wind breaker jacket on. No gloves or skull cap. I've been in shorts on most days since early April, with a few of those days wearing a pair of lightweight nylon pants on top. It isn't the temperature that is the problem around here. It's the wind that is the issue, especially crossing the Charles River into Cambridge and back.