I recommend Nokian studded snows because the spikes are really well-seated and don't fall out. They're made from carbide, so they won't wear out either.

Here in Va. we have been blessed with a pretty mild winter, its been cold but we havent had all the snow and nasty weather. I have been riding my Cross bike and my Prelude 60 - 100 mi. every week weather permitting. So I have been very lucky. Once my Circuit is completed, I am sure that will be my new ride of choice on nice days when the roads are clear. Never been on a spinning machine or a trainer... doesnt sound like much fun!!

andy

I'm sure as heck not getting in the road miles right now. After we got blasted with the worst blizzard in the last fifty years, the snow is taking its own friggin' sweet time departing. AND we're calling for another inch today, more later this week - accumulation TBD. Anyway, I'm logging a lot of sweat equity indoors on a trainer, and when the roads are actually clear enough of ice to ride without a moderately decent chance of falling on my ... uh ... pride, I'm getting a few miles in on my 1995 Fuji 25th Anniversary Special Edition. It's going to be a while before anyone other than my sixteen year old students consider this to be "vintage," but - on the other hand - I guess it allows me to ride without taking one of my more prized stallions out onto the salt-encrusted pavement.

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Old faithful:

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we don't have quite the issue you guys up north have with cabin fever, but i got a pretty good taste of it this week. i haven't been on a bike since monday, 1/31. it's been a wild, cold, bizarre week in dallas texas. hoping to ride today, but there are still big patches of ice out, so i may do a spinning class

The East must be brutal. I can speak from experience that the West Coast is very cush. As Baz Luhrmann said: "Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft."

Now, on the Colorado Plateau we have sort of rideable conditions year round but you must be just a little hard to enjoy it at the extremes. Suits me okay. So no cabin fever here with January highs of 30's, merely a slight ache for those 3 months of beautiful weather coming up before the dry, brutally hot days of early summer sets in.

I thought you'd have some winter machinery with your arsenal of bikes John. lol. I've got to nurse a flat tire and finish swapping over to drops. Though I think for the time being I'll just toss back in the stock bars.
Started out as this docile looking commuter...
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Now...
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These help out too.
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Once the white stuff clears then I'm taking this out first thing. 73 Raleigh Comp I built this winter.
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I have been bringing stuff home to scrub and polish on the weekends. It's in the 30's-40's most days in my shop. It gets a bit old. I scrubbed 40 years of nasty off of some old super champions on a early 70's Grand record build while sitting in the living room. I do a lot of walking but haven't been on a bike for months. I used to ride trials indoors or spin but not this time around.. lazyness has taken hold.

I'm trying to break out of being a winter weekend warrior. With the combination of road conditions (or lack thereof), narrowing streets from piling snow and a-hole drivers who refuse to accept that cycling can be a year round activity , I've been just sticking to snowboarding and the occasional ride around town.

I just borrowed a fluid trainer from Rhm last night though and my hope is to spin some miles on it and wile away the mind numbing boredom of it by attempting to play Xbox at the same time. I may need some of those TT style forearm pads :lol:

I just got back from a little ride around town on my Varsity....I wanted to take a different bike but I went down to the stable and the situation was bleak:

Team Miyata - Wheels aren't on it, No FD
Miyata 1000 = No Saddle
Austro Daimler - Tires are too nice... I'll mess em up with all the sand and rocks on the streets
Panasonic Team - Front wheel has no tire on it
Raleigh Super Course - Wheels are on the Panasonic Team...and that front wheel still has no tire on it.

Its death by a thousand cuts down there I swear. :notamused:

Today the side roads were impassable. They didn't plow the snow that fell on top of the snow they already hadn't plowed before, so I stuck to the main drag.
It was warm (25*F) enough for the tons of road salt to work, so there were huge puddles of brine and black slush everywhere.

- I'm afraid of getting all flabby in the summer though - winter has been so much work!

Today was in the mid 40s here, and I spent about four hours chopping the ice off of my driveway from last week's storm. Geez, my upper body is getting quite a workout this winter.

Neal

Ever since I've developed Reynaud's Syndrome I've had to curtail my winter riding.

I'm lucky in that I appear to only have a mild case. I met a woman last week who had all her fingers on both hands amputated as a result of Reynaud's. :eek:

I guess that's a legit reason John. Is that's why your always wearing those snazzy aqua sock when I stop by?

Neal, check out MKS tug pulls to keep your real wheel where you want it with those neat wingnuts on that red bike.

Someone mentioned a fig bar hammock for their handlebars? A Bento type box works much better, and your figs won't go flying if you go airborn over a frost heave in the pavement.

I'll probably ride either the green GT rigid mtb or the Univega Sportour. I might take out the Timberlin before then if I swap out the tires first. The Timberlin has a set of Serfas tires on it that I broke an unbreakable tire lever getting them on, I don't look forward to taking them off.

The blizzard that hit here earlier this week along with the 4"-6" of additional snow we're currently getting today is not good for riding in.

For today I'll be watching the Superbowl. I think it's a state law that I have to watch the Packers play that other team ... The Steelers.