Welcome to the forum. I, and a few other people I know, commute to Eden Prairie. Where to do ride exactly?

Thanks. Luckily, my commute begins and ends in Eden Prairie. I use the bike trail along Cty Rd. 5 heading East in the morning - from about Dell Rd. to Mitchell.

Havent posted in awhile, still communting, but today was cold cold cold, or maybe I am just not used to it yet. Nice weather otherwise, and man do I slow down in the winter.

not too bad in St Louis this morning . . . I'm guessing low 40's, light drizzle, not much wind. I had my neoprene booties with the broken zippers, long spandex bike pants, poly jersey, shell, wool balaclava, cheap ski gloves. Need to work on the gloves because they got wet. Thinking about investing those claw type gloves for the really cold weather in Jan/Feb. Cheers!

Last commute of the year before they close the path on the bridge over the St Lawrence. 36F/2C, no wind and clear sky. The puddles were frozen, but I was able to steer around them. Its a lot slower with overpants and rain jacket. Usually I take 70-75 mins. Today it was 88 mins.

They close the path? That's too bad. You could probably still ride over, for instance, Champlain Bridge, and be faster than the cars during rush hour. :D

We got a decent snow in Denver the night before last, and temperatures in the single digits. Biking to/from work yesterday was a blast, but today it's treacherous--black ice under cornsnow, frozen tire ruts, impatient drivers. The most fun is getting up a good speed on the packed snow of a sidestreet, then hitting that loose stuff at the end of the block, trying not to lay the bike over. Being Denver, I'm guessing it will all be gone by the end of the week.

Pretty good commute this am. It was -8C without any wind. Tuesday morning cagers seems more agitated than normal. One guy sitting behind me at a light decided I wasn't going to move fast enough so with both of us in the middle of a left hand turn he switches lanes to go around. I cought up to the dumbass 5 blocks later. He must have stopped somewhere along the way cause I don't think I am quite that fast. If he is the only cager I come across today that pulls a stunt, it is all good.

Have a great day.

Welcome, ajkloss42!

I had a nice 16 mile commute this morning, clear skys, 21F. My whole body stayed toasty warm... except my toes. I guess I'll have to dig out the electric foot warmers (I had them ready I just didn't think I would need them). I was fine until the last three miles or so. It should be a comfortable ride home, it's up to 36F now. Life is good.

Left work at about 6:40 AM...So. Cal riders not used to this..When I left it was like 31 degrees..Conditions dry and sunny..But could see the ocassional water spots looking more like ice, where sprinklers had been on...
Sun was great...Strong winds...Had the right gear on..Felt not too cold...Really do think DeFeet under thermal T shirt was a big help...All comfy except for hands...Near freezing wth...Did not start to peel off layers until almost 9 am...

Left for work at 6:20 AM, had to meet a coworker to catch a ride to a training class at our corporate office. Ride distance is the same, since I meet him at our store. Chilly this morning, but I dressed appropriately, so no problem. Same routine the next 2 days. Very overcast on the way home, but we got out soon enough so it wasn't dark when I returned.

It rained overnight & warmed to 37F by 6AM, no wind at all. I left a bit late & was surprised to find zero traffic for the 1st half of my commute, just riding along wet roads alone with my thoughts. We had no more rain all morning but there were a few showers beginning late in the afternoon. Don

It was cold this morning. For us at least.

I stopped by BloodSource before work to exchange 410 billion platelets for all the cookies and juice I could consume. They took out the old wheel-bender bike rack and put in really nice bike lockers. The only problem is that they lock them overnight (to keep out homeless people?) and when I show up for my 6am appt., I always have to go hunting for the security guard to unlock the locker. Oh well.

Anyway, it's been a long day at work and I really need to head home. I hope there's enough charge left in my nightrider battery.

Alot of rain on the way home , all so the temp went under 40 . But still a good ride . Have a good nite .

You should give them a break. I'm sure the 'ditch digger' would much rather be sipping a mai tai on a hawaiian island. ;)

35F degrees and raining. Legs cold. Need something other than lycra for wet rides. Will visit the LBS at lunch time. Other than that, a commute like any other. :)

Supposed to snow, but I live too low and close to Champlain. Not cold enough, fortunately for my riding.

gruelling; 36 degrees, drizzle, uphill, and winds gusting from 25 to 50 mph. Took almost twice as long as normal this morning. Still, once I was at work and changed, sipping coffee - I felt good about it. (but I did curse almost the entire journey ;)

One of the harder rides in, this winter. Around 2C, wet due to the overnight rain, 40 - 60 km/h winds made for a long ride. It always seems to be a headwind or a quartering headwind. We were lucky though; 40 - 50 km north of us the rain had turned to snow. I still don't have my new studed tires, so I would have been slipping and sliding.

Cool and sunny (46°F). Nice ride in, winds gusting from 15 to 20 mph. Feels great to be alive!

The weather is awful and I had a wonderful commute.

So we're in throws of a storm with 35mph with 50mph gusts, it's raining, it's chilly. So I break out my rain bike. Being a fixed gear rider, my usual ride has a much taller gear (77") than my inclement weather rig (69"). It's also got a different set of clips straps and I have drops on it instead of my usual chopped-n-flipped fake pursuit bars...more aero for the wind, dotcha know.

Meanwhile, I apparently left my mp3 player going when I got home yesterday, so it's completely kaput. No music for me.

Leaving the house I get comfortable on the drop part of the bars which I raised just last night because I've noticed that full insertion on the stem put them just a little too low to be comfortable. I'm floatng along on my much easier gear... Probably going slower, but I wouldn't know it, I don't have a computer mount on this bike so I can't tell how fast or slow I'm going. It's nice to be released from that and not pushing myself so hard for a change. I've got no music, so I can hear everything, the wind, the rain, all of it but the drivetrain which is, of course, silent. Just the zip! of tires on wet pavement.

My usual route is mostly on-street, but one part takes me over a steel grate bridge on a heavily trafficked highway in the left lane (good times, good times) and it's absolutely killer when it's wet,so I take some bike paths that I normally avoid like the plague because they're choked with strollers and roller bladers, squirrely cyclist and peds. But not today. It's raining, dontcha know?

Of course since it's raining, I don't have on my nice sneakers but instead my actual preferred cycling shoes which are a pair of big cushy low-top Pony's that fit super snug in my clips. The feel reminds me of when inline skating companies first began to design for the hardcore street skating and vert market. Big, cushy, comfortable, and secure. Just like a set of K2 Backyards I still have. Nice.

So there I was, flying along, different ride, different gear, different route, favorite shoes, nothing in my way, and totally elemental. It was raining today and my commute was the better for it.

St Louis . . . dateline . . . coldest day of the year yet, low 30's (F), patches of ice, but sunny, blue and beautiful! Much better than the last two days!!! My only fuss was that I washed my gloves and the thumb of the liner on the left glove got all knotted up. Man, that bugged me all the way in.

Similar weather to St. Louis here in Sactown. As I rode through my neighborhood nearly every driveway had an idling car. I even saw my neighbor bring out a pan of hot water to de-ice his windshield. Sheesh, you'd think this was International Falls. . . Anyway, the ride was brisk. Since my commute is so short, I was just getting comfortable as I made it to the office.

That's a great post. It is amazing how changing a few items can make you feel like you are experiencing things anew. Just altering my patterns to deal with the recent snow here has upped the Adventure Factor in my daily ride significantly. Yay, bad weather! Every silver lining has a dark cloud!

It was my coldest commute yet (~46 F), since I started in June. I almost turned back a mile out, because my fingers were in pain (fingerless gloves), but I sucked it up and rode the next 15 miles. Looking forward to my ride back in the dark. It's fun, cruising along the Santa Ana River (if you can call it a river right now) at night. :)

An awesome ride today. It snowed about an inch last night (today is the first day of a regular winter). I finally used the Nokians I paid an arm and a leg for. I saw many cars spinning in an effort to get going on hardpack snow. In Saskatchewan we rarely get slushy snow. Any precip from now until March will likely be regular snow that won't bung any gears up. It is truely unbeleivable how much the snow takes sounds out of the atmosphere. Temp is -7C with a slight wind.

All around it was a great ride and I look forward to more snow.

LOL from both of these quotes.

1. Heartland Blood Center is right next door to my local Trek/Klein/Lemond dealer. Guess where I go every eight weeks? He has a nice Klein road he is just dying to deal right now and I sooooooo much want to put myself in debt.
2. My Nightrider left me in the dark two weeks ago after I forgot to charge the night before. I was OK for the ride in but was screwed for the dark ride home.

Good day!

I am experiencing a lot of the same weather some other posts are experiencing. It snowed last night and froze overnight. The temperature was just above 32 F when the wet snow started but the temp dropped below 32 F soon after the snow started. This morning was icy and treacherous, especially when it was dark. When I left at 6 AM it was too dark, even with a light, to see some of the ice. A lot of the side roads had not been visited by a snow plow or salt truck, so they were extra treacherous. The shoulder was too icy to ride for most of the ride, so I had to ride in the road. Thank goodness I left early enough that the traffic was light. There was very little wind, so the cold was not a factor this morning.

I have several warm fuzzies to take away from this morning's commute, however. My coworkers are in awe and I was in awe at the beauty I saw as the light emerged during my ride. Despite the difficulty of the ride I feel recharged. December 1 and I am still riding -- that's a good sign!

Ack. It was warm enough this morning (25 F) but I'm somewhat shell-shocked after two weeks of riding on a tropical isle. Between the cold, the ice, the riding on the right instead of left side of the road, sleep deprevation, and switching to fixed after the last two weeks of multispeed bike riding, it was wacky. It's definitely time to put the cx bike back together (took the goodies with me on vacation, pedals, seat, seatpost, computer, lights).

My first post to this sticky. Well last night my head light died, this morning rained like helll but I squeezed in between cloudburst and rather balmy but this PM we've got 50mph winds to battle with temps droping like a stone. Hope they are mostly tail winds. Charlie