Yes, it is a very windy waterfront. Very windy.

32 degrees and raining hard. I'm amazed the road wasn't icy.

It did drop quite a bit here in northern VA but still in the positive double digits.

45F this morning, cold for this time of year in Jacksonville, topped out at 60, nice riding weather.

What I want to know is, what the heck did we do to deserve this brutal cold snap and early start to winter. Jeez, can't even get acclimated properly. Even Mother Nature is in a hurry these days.

Stop already! :-)

Is that the ride with the new spokes? Cool!

Yes! It feels so much more solid, and "correct" for this application. The big thing I noticed, was that my pedaling felt less springy, in fact no spring to it at all aside from that my shoes contributed. Finally feels solid & like a wheel meant for the job from factory. My pants were a bit snug for pedaling, but it seemed the friction fluid didn't mind the cold. I'll see how it is below freezing in a few days. I'm confident that it will be fine, especially after a few minutes in use. :)

As for me personally, I'm realising that because I can cruise at a higher speed on the uptown vs my old cruiser stuck in 1st gear, the wind resistance is a larger factor, which means slight adjustment in which layers I use on which trips. This will especially be important at night when there is no sun at all for any type of warmth.

- Andy

Well, it's below freezing... Hub totally unaffected as I thought it wouldn't be. One happy camper right here!

- Andy

We caused too much global warming and now mother nature is getting a revenge on us.

What happened to Fall? :twitchy:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=418011

Early start to winter? We didn't even get snow till the middle of November! That's a month late!

It's kinda of true. Last year we had some pretty cold weather for our Fall soccer league which ends in mid October. This year I wore shorts every game and short sleeves every game except for one.

Often we'd get at least some flurries in October but nothing this year.

It's normally not in the 20's here till late December..... gonna hit teens tomorrow. Hope all this rain dries up or it'll be very icy out there.

- Andy

While I know it is going to get cold here, it would be nice if it slowly came on. It seemed like it went from the 50s F down to the teens in a week. What happened to fall?

In a week?!! Two weeks ago we went from 65F to the teens in 3 hours! We were at 65F at 10 am and by 1pm we were at 15F and it just kept going lower. Two days later the low was -14F. That's nearly an 80F drop in temperature over 48 hours.

It's been hovering around freezing for a week now. I'm into a light jacket, and if it gets a few degrees colder I'll add gloves and a thin sweater.

It was ONLY -9C this morning. I need to stop wearing so much clothing, I was quite hot!

Well, you are in Colorado. I've heard many stories like that about Colorado.

It's still a shock when it happens. I don't recall quite this big a drop in the last several decades either.

I suppose it would be, and I take your point about it being a bigger shift than you commonly get. I've only been in Colorado three times, all briefly, and I did get a sense of the weather's changeability. Pretty interesting, and it made me realize I don't have much to complain about here.

Many places make the claim of "wait 5 minutes and the weather will change". Few experience the wide...and wild...swings we can go through.

Yes, I think you win in that department. One lucky thing about it, though, is that your snow rarely stays on the ground in Denver. Ours can stay for months, and it is so disgusting and dirty.

I know we like to talk about "Polar Vortexes", how early winter came this year, and how drastic the change was but for a little perspective, lookup the "Armistice Day Blizzard" back in 1940. At least we had warning.

Within a few hours it went from 60 degree temps to a raging blizzard with 16 to 27 inches of snow, winds of 50 mph, and temps dropping into the single digits overnight. Hunters taking shelter on islands in the Mississippi had their camps flooded by 5 foot waves (on a river !)

145 people died across several states.

It was that big sweeping mass of a storm that covered a large portion of our planet. It pushed a big system on us. Looked like a Jupiter storm/ eye on the nightly news.. How fare thee up North? Here in Southern Co, along the Arkansas valley, it's large patches of non melting snow coupled with otherworldly low temps in the AM.

My feelings on cold weather riding:

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps345ygx1y.jpg

:D

- Andy

We beat a record low temperature that had held for 111 years this morning, with a low of 20 F. Of course, that meant I had to ride, even though it was far from my coldest commute, which was about 15 F. I was warm and toasty, and probably overdressed a wee bit. Amazing how much heat your body can generate when cycling.

I don't have anywhere to ride today, at least for now. I just took the dogs* out for a walk. It's very cold and very windy. I am so grateful for my clothes.

* My grand-dog is staying with us for a week. I normally have only one dog.

54 Deg.F when I left the house, down to 51 by the time I got to the Metro station, back up to 54 when I de-trained in Los Angeles. Toasty compared to the weather for you cycle-cimmuters North and East!

Long sleeve base layer, jacket, cycling shorts with knee warmers, Woolie-Boolie socks with 6-6-1 sandals. Quite comfortable commute, actually.

Rick / OCRR

We're getting chinooked today. Those patches of snow will probably evaporate before nightfall.

It is, after all, more than 5 minutes later;)