zeroderby

Like I said, the city said I am the only one who has called in. I have been thinking about putting up a sign telling people that the paved part was done by a private citizen and if they want it properly cleared they shold call in.

zeroderby

The shadows in that video are cool. I like how you keep passing yourself.

ghettocruiser

Locally here whenever they plow something, they then have to salt it, which I strongly dislike.

The good(?) news is they don't do this to most of them MUPs here. To recycle an image from a few years ago I've already over-used:

Combined with the limited snow we get (approx 0 cm so far in 2010) and frequent foot traffic, most of the time the surface is hard packed and quite ride-able with winter tires, if a little bumpy.

Two years ago we got a lot of snow by Toronto standards, and the foot traffic on the MUPs created a single "pedestrian trench" (to use a XC skiier's description) that eventually got wide and packed enough to be rideable as well, although my pedals sometimes rubbed the snow on either side.

Pig_Chaser

Dang, I thought all the mups were cleared. You need one of these:



Maybe I should call it in.

zeroderby

I thought that too, I was very happly when they finished paving it thinking that It would be great in the winter.

Please do, it is the trail from Cameron Heights to the Henday bridge and then up to Henderson Estates.

devianb

It's all gone for where I ride now, took long enough to melt.

Sixty Fiver

zero - Good to see another crazy person... aka Edmontonian.

I live in central Edmonton and am only 3 blocks from main streets such as 101 and 106 and am just a little north of 118 Ave which are kept quite clear so it is just a matter of getting from here to there before the riding gets decent.

The residential streets are a bog right now as the warmer temps have created a slushy brown mess and some of this is deep enough that I can have issues... a good part of that stems from my inability to lay down full power with both my legs and maintain a good spin under that kind of load.

Lots of cars have been getting stuck as well and the city does not plow the side streets here unless they are inundated with complaints.

The snow is pedal deep in many places, especially at intersections where things have been churned up... the less travelled streets and avenues are better an in the winter I have no issue riding on the sidewalk in places where you just can't make it down the road.

Snow has been falling all day and I will be heading down to EBC Bikeworks tomorrow to do some bike building... it should be a fun ride as there will be little to no traffic and a bunch of fresh powder to play in.

irclean

We got a good dumping here after Xmas:



It's been mild lately so it's now a non-issue, but I found the most difficult riding conditions for me was after passing cars had compacted the snow into ridges and channels. On that stuff the studs were of no help since they couldn't reach through to bite on anything. It's especially treacherous going around corners. So far, however, I've managed to commute to school everyday this winter (knock on wood!)

zeroderby

Well it snowed over the weekend and filled in the part that was cleared with a snow blower, which means 3kms of walk/push/carry. Not really sure what that will mean for me and my commute. I drove in today.

noglider 

I haven't had a chance to ride in snow at all this winter. I'm disappointed.

Some years here are snowy. Others are not.

I hear cycling in snow has become a big sport in Vermont. I should try it.

Sixty Fiver

I think the issue lies in the fact you live just a little west of Suburbia and no-one at the city could conceive that someone would ride in from that far out, let alone walk.

You could very well be a victim of our uncontrolled urban sprawl.

Sixty Fiver

I don't consider riding here to be a big deal under most conditions as we don't get the same snow as the east, winters tend to be dry and sunny, and the biggest obstacle can be the cold.

We got down to -46 C last month, I believe it was December 14th.

It was a record breaking day.

I rode.

noglider 

And how windy was it? Probably less than here. Though, still, I can't imagine -46C. I think the coldest I've ever been in was about -5F.

Bikepacker67

Hey Les, what kind of camera setup are you running?
Me likey.

labrat

I went through several sections of 100' long and 5-6" deep this morning. Doesn't seem to be too much of a problem until the bottom bracket is dragging. The city is pretty good about plowing around here as witnessed by the attached pic. If you look closely you can see my bike hiding around the bend.

LesMcLuffAlot

It's just a run of the mill Gopro Hero Wide.

Pig_Chaser

Winds average about 20-30km/hr here, you know, when I'm pedaling.

PaulH

After a promising start with a big snowstorm (two feet) a week before Christmas, it's been a disappointing winter. It always bums me out when there is no snow on the ground. I grind away on my Nokians every day through a grey landscape.

Paul

frymaster

i hear ya. this year marks me setting a new cutoff temperature at -30c (sans windchill) and even with all the right gear it's freakin' colde.

i think moving away from edmonton was on of my smarter life decisions...

noglider 

frymaster, where are you?

frymaster

i'm in the second farthest north municipality in north america with a population over 500,000 people.

edmonton, by comparison, is the first.

noglider 

Uh, Calgary?

bugly64

Lots of angry words come out when I have to push the Kona in snow. Most of the time it's the slush made by cagers that gets me.