It was 32F this morning and my car had 1/8" ice coating it. I decided to ride (to my wife's dismay). It was a pretty good ride, mostly in the dark. I was quite cold when I got to work, but I'm alright now. :thumb:

My commute today was terrible and has been terrible for 50 days now.

There is a transit strike in Ottawa (50 days now) and my non-bike riding wife requires a ride to work every morning, which means I cannot commute by bike!

The up side to this is that I get to spend more time with my wife. Which is good.

I had to force myself to ride this morning because I committed to two rides for the week and seeing that today is wednesday I figured I had better do it now. It was a balmy 6F this morning but no wind to speak of. This is the coldest temp that I have ridden in and my toes paid the price. The rest of me was fine though. Tomorrow might be a bit warmer.

By the way I've tried all the tricks for keeping the toes warm like bags in the shoes, smart wool socks, toe covers etc etc, but not much luck. If anyone else has any better ideas please let me know.

40F warm and sunny. I was way overdressed.

kgriffioen - I bought a pair of low-top snow sneakers from Lands End on sale for about $25 earlier this winter. I got them about a size and a half too big and I wear wool socks. Before that, my toes were always cold, but now they're much better.

I had to drive today. The ice they predicted yesterday came overnight. My normal 15 minute drive took 35, about the same as it does on bike. The ice was bad though and I don't have studs, so the bike wasn't an option.

Big virtual high 5 to everyone in Philly who commuted today. South Philly was really icy, lots of frozen tracks and ruts. Downtown is slushy, but not frozen yet.

Cold (for me, at least): 34F with a breeze out of the north. I can't imagine the temps some of you guys face.

Didn't get to ride in this morning, had to de-ice the car then drive our son to the babysitter. I then dropped the wife off at work and drove myself in. Today would have been a difficult ride and much more time consuming than usual, there likely would have been some walking and a lot of slipping/sliding. It would have been hard to justify the time expediture-I was more than 2 hours late as it was.

Yesterday's ride home, however, was a lot of fun, I love riding in the snow. The trail conditions varied from: merely wet to slushy, to 3 to 4 inches of powdery snow (on the bridges). The touring tires that I recently mounted and expressed such displeasure in recently really proved their value yesterday. I was able to confidently maintain a 13 mph. average (roughly 80% of my typical avg. of 16 mph) which is much better than the comparable avg. speeds when using road tires (which would likely drop my 20 mph. avg to 50% or less in comparable conditions). They handled the snow as well as or better than some of the CX tires I've used in the past. While they're slow and awkward by road tire standards, they proved to be a good choice for foul weather conditions. So, I guess I'll keep them until March when I can switch back to road tires. I think I'll put my fenders back on the bike tonight, I think tomorrow's ride will be a mess one (slush, water, salt/sand).

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, my rr. deraileur froze up about 2/3 rds of the way into my evening commute yesterday. It was coated with chunks of frozen slush as was the bottom bracket shell. I've had this happen before and, luckily, I was stuck in a good gear. I've never really worried about it before but, how could I prevent it if I was so inclined? Lubricate the der. with some kind of anti-freeze or, keep a heat source (lighter) handy to manually melt the ice? Not a big deal, just curious how others deal with it?

Had a not so great ride into work today. My main commuter (Redline 925) is in the shop so I had to ride my beater 90's era Hardrock mtn bike backup. Was approaching the local community college when a white sedan crossed into the bike lane and almost sideswiped me. I'm usually on the far left of the bike lane to avoid getting doored, but some reason today I was pretty far to right. The car's right mirror was literally inches away from my left hand as the car passed at ~40mph. The car crossed back into the car lane about 10 yards ahead of me and sped off.

I'm not sure if the driver tried to buzz me (it's happend before) or just pure neglicent driving, but suffice it to say, I'm kinda freaked out.

My first ride in the rain today and headwinds up to 15mph. Temperature started off pretty nice, though, about 57° at around 8:00am, but it's suppose to go down today. Should be in the mid-to upper 40s by 7:00pm for my ride home. Rather enjoyed the ride. Got a sprint in to make a green light; amazing how much energy you can summon up when you don't feel like waiting and getting wet. :lol:

NOOOO!!



It was icey so I didn't even drive in today.

A beautiful day in St Petersburg as usual!! My commute is 16 miles each way - flat, like the rest of Florida and I am able to cycle in 2-4 days when I am in town for the whole week. Funny, I remember when my legs were rubber if I rode 2 days in a row. Anyway, it's been a frustrating week 3 days of riding in and 3 flats with my Gatorskin Ultra's. On Monday evening, a ped and his dog stepped off the curb right in front of me - it was all I could do to not hit him and then the guy want's to get into it with me. Good lord.

Commute to work was a bit chilly. Ice on cars this morning, but not on the roads. About half way to work, temperature was 34 degrees. Good thing I had my ski gloves! Made the 7.5 mile ride in 40 minutes on my Townie. That's about the best that I can do. Warmed up to 64 for the ride home, which took me 45 minutes. There are so many lights and stop signs to contend with around town.

Commuting is just a regular trip, not just to work, right? Like to the grocery store? In that case, here are some crappy cell phone pics of me and my DL-1 at Albertson's, picking up some groceries.

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Yeah, that's ice on the sidewalk.

About 12" of unplowed snow/ice, tire ruts, and the occasional passing car thrown in for fun - I drove.

can't find my lights, so i commute like a ninja. backroads and all.

29F/-1C or so. Riding home yesterday, it was 35F with light rain. Riding along dealing with semi-melted, refrozen snow/ice in lots of places, I couldn't help but think what last night's forecast low of 22F was going to do to everything when the rain I was riding through hard froze overnight on top of everything else.

Turned out that by 5:00AM this morning, though, it had only dipped just below freezing for a couple of hours. The rain had stopped just before sundown and had quite a few hours to if not dry, at least to not freeze so much. :D

This morning's ride still required careful attention, but really ended up being quite nice.

Rode in today but it turned out to be a bad choice. While the streets were fine the MV Trail was a mess, particularly between the airport and the 14th Street Bridge. The bridges were a mess, with rutted, glazed ice and the paved portions were completely un-treated and un-plowed and similarly tough. I tried to ride in the grass once I got to the rugby fields, however, that proved nearly impossible-a lot of wheel spin and sliding. So, I mostly walked from the airport to midway across the 14th. Street Bridge where the pedestrian lane became rideable. It was smooth sailing from there on. I have to assume the Park Service won't treat or plow and have to make a determination whether or not to ride home today. They're calling for a high of 42 and partly sunny, not sure if that will be enough to melt the remaining ice. In addition, the run off from the rugby fields will be substantial, it will drain right onto the trail, probably preventing any improvement of the trail surface. I have to figure out what my "go, no go" temperature would be in order to make it home in a reasonable amount of time, it would probably have to be in the upper 40's to near 50. I'm leaning toward taking the Metro home today.

I had my first slip and fall on ice this morning. It's very icy out there today; it snowed then rained yesterday, and last night it all froze up. Normally this wouldn't be too much of a problem for me since the roads I ride on are usually salted to hell and well traveled by cars, so they're ice-free. Not so this morning.

I almost made it all the way into work without incident, just trying to avoid sudden accelerations, decelerations, and turns, and trying to avoid the ice whenever possible. (The fall happened on Comm Ave between Clarendon and Berkley St.) Luckily when I fell I was only going about 12 mph, and the traffic was starting to slow down for the red light up ahead. One woman called out from her car to ask her if I was all right. I said I was and got myself and the bike onto the sidewalk to regroup.

I have some bumps and bruises, but no blood. I'm pretty sure the ice will melt during the day today, but even still, I'm going to try to leave work today while it's still light out.

After yesterday's 8-12" it is still too dangerous for my commute into the city with rush hour traffic - maybe tomorrow .....:o

25 MPH headwind w/ 45 MPH gusts. The upside is it was 61 degrees when I left the house at 6:30 this morning.

Lots of walking. There are sheets of ice all over the greenway. It took me 1:45 to get to work (usually more like 1:10).

Still beats the subway.

apricissimus - It's melting alright - now we have running water OVER the ice! Just got back from my lunchtime drive to gym to run 2 miles in a climate controlled gym and on a shock absorbing treadmill, except I almost fell and cracked my head walking back from my car! But, I didn't.

Why is it not February yet? What I wouldn't do for 61 degrees!