Similar conditions to Itsjustb; forecast for a high of 65 F today!
I have a mid-day off-site appointment I'll be riding to, and I had the same questions about What to Wear.

Saw more fellow riders on the trail today than I'm used to this time of year, and was barked at by a tiny fluffy dog. A slow commute for some reason, as my morning commutes usually are. I still don't get that.

Yesterdays ride in was beautiful. Mid 40's with a slight tail-wind. Coming home though everything changed. The roads had iced over from the wind and mid 30's temp and I ended up eating pavement twice. No harm done to me or the ride but I am definitely not attempting to tackle it today. The mixture of icy roads, possible blowing snow, and dangerous windchills will have me calling a taxi for the ride in and I will probably get a ride home from a coworker. This is the first day I will not be riding in due to the weather this winter. It saddens me a little. At least I work for the taxi company part-time so I get $2 rides. Woohoo!

Great ride home yesterday. It was perhaps 30F, almost no wind, and the days are gettign longer; I didn't need hy headlight for the whole trip. I took a longer way home - it adds a mile and a few gentle hills. When I got home and my new toy - I mean new GPS - was waiting for me.

Two thin $10 balaclavas from MEC and an old helmet. The pads are out of the helmet, so the velcro sticks to the balaclavas and doesn't move around. Awesome.

-32C [windchill to -47C] this morning. I wore an extra pair of longjohns to keep my buttocks from freezing. I made all my lights except for one and got to work right on time. The snow has been compressed into glare ice in a lot of places, but studded tires kept me upright.

The ride in was windy, but nice. I was sick last week, so I took the long route to try and make up mileage. To see what tonight's gonna be like, see my cross post:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...68#post6071068

Relaxing to be back to normal sleet/slush from teens (F) of last week I have to say.

Just beat the rain!

Had to work late last night, so my ride home was totally in the dark, which made it a different sort of experience. This morning was just the opposite, as I left late for work, and my ride was totally in the daylight. It's amazing how much the daylight and warmer temperatures can speed you up. My average speed going to work this morning was about 1.5 mph higher than usual lately, even though I was riding into a pretty strong headwind most of the way. Hopefully I will have the wind at my back on the way home as it's expected to be very windy this afternoon, with gusts up to 30 mph or higher.

Today was my first commute to my new job from my new home in a new state. 2.1 miles, slight rolling hills, made it in 9 minutes, door-to-door. I think I am going to like my new commute, all back roads, less lights and traffic, no daily bus dodging like I had to deal with in Rochester. They tried to give me a parking pass and gate card at orientation, I respectfully declined, but then they gave them to my manager to give to me. Even though I used a side entrance to campus and didn't have to deal with parking or the gate, I think I might go through the security gate anyway just to see the look on the security guard's face when I operate the gate from my bicycle and ride through :)

Snowed last night and since the first 2 miles of the commute on a winding narrow narrow road, I rode my fixie with 28mm tires on the dirt trails by the irrigation ditches, I had to plow through an inch or more of snow -- not much but equalling tiring -- after that the road is more exposed to the sunlight and the snow was melting and has shoulders so that was cool. The last 1/2 mile before our company's campus is a 300+ concave hill and was a bit frozen on the sides. Still managed to do it and this where fixed gear really shines. I have slick gatorskin contis but I managed. If it snows again tonight I need to use my mountain bike!

Yesterday 24 mph headwind going to work, In the evening it was worse but it was on my back. I was going as fast as the cars on the way home

Studded Nokians = Worth their weight in gold. :D :love:

We had some freezing rain this afternoon, and by the time I left work, the MUP was a 5-mile ribbon of glare ice. (Except for the bits that had snow on them.)

I got down from the saddle a couple of times and let my foot drag on the ground. No traction whatsoever. :p

I came upon a young woman who was walking. Her feet were sliding all over the place. She heard my studs crackling on the ice, turned to see what I was, and said, "How do you ride a bicycle on this ice?!" I said, "Studded snow tires!"

A calm, mild commute day today but the 16 miles RT was the shortest ride so far this month. I was running late this morning and had to take the dreaded "short route" to work. I don't like it because it passes right in front of a large high school, and the traffic signals are timed with red lights that seem like 5 minutes.

Great respite from the winter this morning - 51F and a nice tailwind. The great weather combined with the new wheels and drive train allowed me to set a new PB time for my 18 mile jaunt to work this morning.

Bicycle commuting ROCKS!

weather was great this morning - 53 when I left - nice change in temps! But there was a killer headwind the whole way in - really slowed me down. Felt good though!

Yesterday's ice had largely cleared off except for some spots. Easy to tell when I was on ice. The stud noise changes. :) Mild headwind, but nothing too bad, and some light rain for a few minutes. Temps in the mid 30Fs. Very comfortable.

-8 °C

Partly cloudy
* Feels Like: -18
* Wind: W 41km/h
* Wind gusts: 69km/h

And I rode in from the East end this morning... it was... 'windy' :)

Got to work at around 9am, my water bottle is still thawing out from the ol' windchill :p

Wasn't cold, just careful with the blowing around and sporadic ice sheets that the wind was making on the roads - the only major gust that almost blew me off happened when I was stopped at a light ironically - almost blew me off the back of the saddle so I got on the hoods and started creeping into the intersection to get moving against it :p

Had to cheat - put the bike in the back of a coworkers pickup and got a ride home this morning. The ride to work last night was rainy, 40F and 20+mph winds. Mostly good with a tail wind. During the night, temps dropped to 12F with 30+mph winds gusting to 50mph. I think the wind chill was -11F. Really wanted to try out some new gear but 30-50mph headwinds on the way home would've taken forever. The NEOS villager overshoes worked fine in the rain even with a couple foot drag stops because of wet brakes. It was probably a good idea to get the ride but now I keep wondering would it really have been that bad and what are my limits and my gear's limits? Will have to test them another time.

a bit of drama this am.. I changed tires and tubes from the '99 original Kenda MB knobbies on my Giant Sedona on Monday night to Innova Swiftor City tires. Being a first time mechanic, I was worried about pinching the tube on the rim, but everything seemed to go well. This morning was going to be the first commute, but came to the garage and the rear was flat...threw my spare tube that I had taken out from the old tires in my bag and took a chance and filled new tube with the air compressor (about 80lbs) and made it to work. (1mile to train, about another mile after train ride..soon will be doing whole 10 mile commute!) I found a small leak right next to the valve, almost looks like a manufacture defect... glueless patches didn't work, so reinstalled old tube, and will see if I make it home tonight!

All this drama, and I still wasn't late for work..

Bought some new winter boots last night (after a cold toes ride home at -10°F with a strong wind) and rode in this morning.

-15°F with a -30 to -35° windchill. Was actually pretty comfortable. Feet were very comfortable. Hands were fine. Would add one more pair of long undies next time.

Cold and misty but no rain, thankfully.

50-ish. Extremely windy. I was commuting to a different location than usual today, on more city streets; I actually took the sidewalk at times because of the wind and badly scarred streets due to ongoing construction. (I took this same route at one point yesterday without any desire to take the sidewalk; there was no strong wind, so I felt stable.) Due to the wind, very unpleasant... for a bike ride.

A balmy -28C this morning. I think our cold snap is winding down. It's supposed to get all the way up to -15C tomorrow. Time to break out the short sleeves! :lol:

Crud, I wimped out. The wind was howling all night, and we still had 30 MPH winds with 45 gusts in the morning, 6*F and it had been raining the previous night. The rear door was frozen and there was ice all over the deck. I didn't want to face very icy roads AND high, gusty winds at the same time.

However, when I got in my car I realized that there was NOT any ice on the roads. And that would have been a TAILWIND. Lose.

Left a slush roostertail the whole way in. That could be pretty interesting tomorrow after an evening freeze if it doesn't drain in the meantime.

I love my new bike. It's soooo much fun. I am commuting to and fro with a big smile on my face. And the weather is gorgeous; warm, sunny, blue sky.

It amazes me that practially everyone else seems to be commuting in sub-zero temperatures, through high winds, blizzards, ice...
I know it's winter up there, but surely there are folk who are having slightly milder, dry weather? Or is the entire northern hemisphere in the grip of some sort of ice-age?!

Today I rode to the designated meeting point to get a ride in the station's 4x4. Overnight snows at higher elevations left roads in the south hills too treacherous for anyone without a metal cage protecting them from other vehicles. I understand there was some national news coverage showing a garbage truck sliding down a hill here in Eugene.

Yesterday I rode up in the snow, but had to shoulder the bike the last 1/3 mile on the station's steep driveway.

Second day of commuting to the new job from the new home in the new state. Thought I might be able to just slip into the side entrance of the company campus again like I did yesterday, but they added a new fence, as if to mock me! I saw a security guard there (also new since yesterday) and thought maybe he would see me and just let me in the swinging gate thing, but he told me to go around the main entrance. The guards at the main gate (two in the booth and then another two actually guarding the gates... overkill?) looked at me weird when I rolled up, but I flashed the ID badge and they let me go through. As I passed the gate, I thought I heard one of the guards behind me say "That's great" as if they were genuinely impressed that I was riding in the winter. Might have just said, "that's the gate." oh well.

Then when I was leaving at the end of the day, I rode across campus to the company health and fitness center to drop off my enrollment paperwork (they have an on-site masseuse!). I noticed on the way over there that my front tire seemed soft. I figured while I was at the fitness center and since I actually knew someone who was working there I'd ask if they had a bike pump, possibly to fill the various balls they had there. They went and dug it out, I went out to fill up, and right away something was wrong. It seemed to be letting more air out of my tire than in. I soon discovered that part of the air hose that went from the main shaft to the gauge was ripped, and that my tire was now flat! I brought it back in to show them, they tried taping it, it still didn't work. So my old friend working there offered to throw my bike in the back of her boyfriend's car and just drive me home. Not feeling like walking with the bike, I accepted. I really need to go get a portable pump of some kind. Can anyone recommend a good one?

Another mellow mild day for a 27 mi RT commute in Orange County. Tomorrow will wrap up the month with commute day #21 and year to date commute miles a bit over 500. Off to a good start for the year.

The cheapest one you can find from a reputable brand / store. You hardly ever use it, and when you do you don't need it to work perfectly, just well enough to be able to ride home. Not worth spending a load of money on, IMHO. I bought the cheapest one my LBS sells; I figured they wouldn't selll complete rubbish (Wal-mart-esque), but didn't see the point of paying more than that.

I think I've used it twice in the last 12 months. Worked just fine each time.