For the newbies here or those who haven't explored our subforums yet ...

Bikeforums has a Winter Cycling Forum!! You might be able to find the answers to many of your winter questions there:

https://www.bikeforums.net/winter-cycling/

Oh the dilemma of where to go for road cyclists to discuss road cycling.. temperature rated forums now it appears. Next up is summer cycling? Or is winter cycling about studded tire riding?

"Now"? There are threads in the Winter Cycling subforum from the year 2000 and maybe earlier.

Oh okay.. I read the OP as an announcement "!"

I think the OP's point was that questions about insulated clothing, numb hands, and frozen glasses would probably get better responses in the Winter forums (and may have already been addressed). The Winter crowd is friendly, though we may be a bit nuts.

On the other hand, if either of the photos below look like your version of Winter riding, please continue posting as usual in the Road forum

Hehe.

https://www.bikeforums.net/winter-cycling/

?? of course it's Summer in Tasmania right now..

Yes, but she's Canadian.

Canadian-Australia

Citizen of both.


And yes, the Winter forum has been around for a long, long time ... it's just that new people don't realise it's there.

Je sais

You go back to Canada to enjoy the winters?

Well, technically still spring, their “late May”.

I did find it rather ironic that Machka had to take time out of her spring riding to point out to us dolts in the N. Hemisphere that a winter cycling forum exists.

I’ll trade Machka’s 16 hour days for my 9 hour ones any time. Dark when I leave for work, dark when I get home. She’s probably been riding past tulips, I just planted mine for next spring.

The tulips are long gone. I took this photo on a walk to the Botanical Gardens at lunch on Oct 2, and as you can see, they're on their way out. Within about a week, they were completely gone. I think they've got sunflowers coming up there now.

Well, I wasn’t sure, obviously, of the exact phenology of your climate, but if you are Hobart, it’s overall similar to mine in Metro Detroit, Michigan, except your winters, cold though they are by Australian standards, are much less cold than here, because Tasmania is surrounded by immense ocean, a heat sink. Your daylight statistics are almost exact, I’m at 45 degrees 53 minutes N, Hobart is shown as 42 degrees 52 minutes south. I am not a fan of winter darkness and the very short days - I love the long days of our Summer Solstice. Enjoy your spring and summer - it goes all too fast.

My other big passion is gardening, in about a month I will start my first plants for 2018 indoors under lights, peppers, artichokes, eggplant, ornamentals such as Asparagus fern and geraniums. It seems the older I get the faster the seasons flow.

It would be similar to where you are, and perhaps even more similar to the Pacific Northwest. It actually reminds me quite a lot of Vancouver Island.

Unfortunately, although our winters aren't terribly cold, our summers aren't terribly warm. In fact, they tend to be quite cool. Some people like that, but I prefer a bit more heat. Happily, this past week was "hot" and I loved it. It has, however, cooled off again now.

Rowan is the gardener in our family ... he actually works in agriculture. But I enjoy looking at it all.

We need winter back first...or not.


60-70F here in the northern hemisphere. Been glorious weather timed perfectly to being able to ride in it.