Yipee! Snow! I rode a little extra this morning just because its soooooooooo fun! I bike/bus commute. The ride to the bus stop was great. About two inches on the pavement. The snow was all up in the fenders so it was tough. But FUN! When I got to town there was no snow on the ground. Oh, well. The bus driver and the girl at the coffee shop sure did give me some funny looks!

Avoided the bike path today due to the fact that it has turned into a sheet of ice. All roads for the first time in awhile and I enjoyed. Might try the route more often. Also think I'm overdressing. It was 18F s I had a couple layers on but I was way too sweaty when I arrived at work. Oh well...

A pleasant ride in. I for once left the house on time so I was spinning leisurely. I had a good trackstanding day, so no foot down on the way in. The only thing that was odd was in the elevator ride up to my office. A woman noticed my super-Fred fluorescent jacket and bike shoes and said "Oh, it's going to be too cold for you tomorrow!"

Oh, really?

Cool ride in. I went through 1/2 inch of snow on the road for about a mile then nothing. Rest was dry or damp from the salt melting things. 20 - 21 degrees F in MI this morning. Need to put on a more aggressive front tire on if I keep this up. I even got a crazy comment from another MTBer that is contracted to where I work. Maybe I am :D

Nice and sunny now. I expect it to be still cold but no precipitation.

You guys are all making me jealous, I want to see some snow. Usual commute this morning, pretty cold though. Low 20's tonight means a very cold ride in the morning, coldest it has been here this winter (if you want to call it that).

slushy. I didn't get in until ~half an hour ago, stayed home w/ the kids in the am (school day).

about two inches of snow on the ground this morning when i went out, with more snow falling. i'm trying to protect my knees as it gets colder, so i wrapped them up like a hockey player and was fine. also located and used all my additional more-serious gear. it was right at freezing, and a really nice ride.

during the day it got colder and started to snow like crazy, so when i came home it was up to four or five inches in most places. much better than the last time this happened, maybe because it's not as cold so the snow is softer. i didn't need to walk over the bridge. took the 'wrong way' side of it because after watching the traffic i didn't want to be sharing the cloverleaf with those cars. the places where i did get off and walk for a while i realised this round of snow is way more slippery than the last one. it's a neat moment when biking is the only method of transportation that feels realistic and viable. i can't pretend my knees are totally thrilled, what with the extra weight and resistance of snow and all the extra wiggles you need to recover from, but they should be okay if i stay careful.

p.s. it's mean-spirited and competitive, but i do love being the only bike in the bike cage.

Zero degrees F under cloudless blue (as the sun came up) skies. Coldest ride of the season so far. I was comfortable. The MUP is snowy but it's only a thin layer so it's easy going. There are a lot of iced-over pedestrian tracks already as well. I'm pleased with my bike's performance. A much smoother ride with the full suspension.

Someone else is riding in from the general area where I live (evidence: a track in the snow). I wonder if (s)he'll keep riding even when it's this "cold." Guess I'll see on my ride home. I seem to go in and come home earlier than the other person.

I came up behind two pedestrians. You would think they would hear the loud crunching of ice under my tires, but no. I dinged my bell at them. They heard that. The ped on the right swerved left and the ped on the left swerved right. It was pretty funny. I wasn't near them yet so I had time to take it all in and giggle before they sorted themselves out. :p

45F and WINDY, 20-25mph out of the South. Rain is coming.... the wind makes it hard to keep a straight line, kinda spookey on the 18" wide shoulder of the 2-lane, 45mph overpass I pedal over every morning

-2C and I forgot my ear warmers. Some guy in a minivan gave me the thumbs up as he waited at a stop sign.

Coldest ride in so far this winter, temps in the low 20's F. Slow going since I was wearing so many layers but I was taking it easy and enjoying the ride. My toes were the only thing cold when I got to work. Not supposed to be as windy this afternoon but I will believe it when I ride home.

25F and snow with a tailwind this morning. Excellent ride. I was about as fast as the cars. Overdressed as usual. I need to leave the mid fleece layer for the teens and below.

28F this morning when I left and I was still sweaty when I got to work. Silk and wool works wonders that way. Almost got right hooked by a cab that sped up w/ about 30' to the intersection. He never fully passed me, just pulled ahead and started his turn. I asserted my ROW and dipped right and around him at the intersection. I guess he knew he didn't pass me fully so he let me pass instead of being an ass and taking the turn on two wheels. When I got to my block, I had to go around a truck that pulled a left turn fakey and started backing up into a loading dock.

I dressed pretty much as I usually do for my ride in this morning, but did find that my toes were a bit chilly, and my water bottle froze before I got half way to work, so I checked the temp when I arrived: 12F (-11C). It is funny because other than my toes, and to a lesser extent, my ears, I didn't feel that cold. Co-workers were all amazed that I rode in this morning.

Oh Yeah - This being the first winter that I've commuted with a water bottle (my old MTB had no cage), I can now say with certainty that water bottles DO freeze at 0F. :D

icy ride this morning. I put on a triple layer of wool on top, polar fleece and MUSA pants on the bottom with booties. Still managed to sweat a little on the 12 mile commute. Saw 2 groups of 5 deer in the Battlefield Park. My water bottle froze as well.

-25c with some drifting snow. the wind was no where near as bad as yesterday.

Fine this morning. I actually caught most of the green (or yellow) lights and had a very easy ride in. I even got to pass a Prius who thought the speed limit was about 10mph on a main street.

And well-wishes to a fellow Atlanta commuter who got clipped yesterday. She's ok other than scrapes, but emotionally very shaken up that neither the driver nor anyone else stopped to help her up. Jerks.

Black ice all over the MUP on the way home last night and the ride in today. Much easier with Sunlight :) good thing I slept in 'by accident'.

Turn your water bottles upside down so the ice forms on the bottom of the bottle for all you frozen water bottle people.

And gtcommuter, that sucks when people can't be bothered to help another human being. When I saw a Fedex driver fall off the back of his truck, both a cab driver that witnessed and I stopped to help him up. It didn't take much effort for either of us and it was appreciated. What's so bad about offering a little help?

Black ice going home and coming in. At least there was another dusting of snow overnight so there was more of something to dig into for traction (in addition to frozen evergreen branches) this morning.

Last night, was reminded that bridges freeze first. Actually, last night I was totally on fire in not paying for mistakes, downshifting and pedalling out of fishtails when my mind lapsed and I forgot that the weather had changed, that kind of thing. This morning I only had one wobble I think that I just balanced myself out of.

Got off the bike to walk up one hill (around a really tight corner).

Funny thing, I saw the exact same skid in the dusting of snow from the other biker who had gone that way and tried to take the corner on the bike. We both appear to have taken the hint and walked w/o falling.

Got off to walk up one hill and down another last night (short ones). The descent could have had DIRE consequences if I slid through the stop sign, didn't want to chance that.

Ditto! I also fixed my rear brake lever and the rear brake itself. Having your brake drag as you're heading into the wind, uphill through snow is just not fun...

No commute, snowed in...have safe ride everyone :)

Chilly (for me at least) 35F/2C but clear with a gentle breeze from the northwest. I took off my jacket after 20 minutes. I don't care what anybody says: there's really no such thing as a breatheable jacket. I think tomorrow I might just wear an old moth-eaten merino wool sweater over my jersey. (I better save that for the "Fred thread").

Please give her my get-well wishes from a fellow commuter in California. This is very sad to hear.
Had a real fast ride in. I am leaving work early today, so I told my boss that I was going to come in early but overslept. So I rode as fast as I could with an empty stomach and cut my commute time by 15 minutes. The computer that I installed last night was showing 30 mph, and I was very proud of myself - all this commuting was finally paying off. Then I realized that the computer was set in kilometers. :rolleyes: