By the way Wussies, Zero may be too cold for cycling, but not for NFL Football. Giants/Packers, 5:30PM at Lambeau in Green Bay Wisconsin. Projected game starting temp: about zero point zero degrees F.

I've met Machka... there's no debate to be had here.

She's probably out there riding right now.

Fascinating seeing the various opinions based on geography.

But, in my opinion, no matter where you live, it is NEVER too cold to ride!

+1000

-9°C SUNNY RealFeel® -25 °C W at 49 km/h
Might just go for a spin

Not really.

It was +2F today at 10:00 am. I did 8 whole miles. I don't ride much in the winter, and all my miles are short; but when it's sunny and the roads aren't too bad I don't let the temp stop me completely.

:roflmao::roflmao::)

I'm a woman. :D

Thank you! *blush*

[Geek]...but note the OP said 0 degrees.[/Geek]

25 F here today and windy. My cheeks are windburned after 12 miles. Toes never did warm up even though my back was covered in sweat. Got to find a balaclava and some warmer socks/booties. And gloves.

ummm. not true.




It's too cold to ride when the grease in your hubs freeze.

You've got to change your grease ... go with something thinner. I've never had the grease in my hubs freeze. I have had my brakes freeze and my shifters freeze, but it's easy enough to make adaptations to those minor details.

Here ... I just snagged this from the Winter Cycling forum:

Too Cold to Exercise? Try Another Excuse

(It's an article from the NY Times, about exercising in the cold)

There are several things in that article which may especially interest those who aren't used to cold weather, but this might help dispell some myths that those who reside in warmer temps would have trouble adjusting to cold temps:

"Another myth is that you have to acclimatize to cold, just as you do to heat. It’s true that peoples’ bodies adapt to hot weather and that adaptation makes people feel better when they exercise in the heat. It also improves performance. With heat adaptation, you sweat more profusely, your sweat is less salty and your blood volume increases.

But exercise physiologists find only modest adaptation to cold. The body’s main responses to cold — constricting blood vessels near the skin, shunting blood to the body’s core and shivering — do not improve if you spend more time in the cold."

Yeah, 0 degrees Fahrenheit isn't too cold IF you have the right clothes for it. I ski in weather colder than that and I ride in it if I have a reason to. But there's little training benefit in going out in that weather and real risk of frostbite if you aren't dressed for it, so it certainly makes sense to just wait a day if it's just a matter of just going for a training ride.

"It's too cold to ride when the grease in your hubs freeze."

Yes it is.

I have mentioned this many times in the winter cycling forum and to folks at our shop... synthetic grease and oil is the way to go for pretty much all your bike lube needs and is especially nice in the winter as it doies not turn to glue at sub -40 temps.

That eliminates another one of the "it's too cold to ride" arguments.

I'll be hitting my record tomorrow morning. 15F says the weatherman. I think he's full of beans. It'll be at least 16F.

Exactly my point. It can never be to cold not to ride :D

When I was commuting in Winnipeg, I used clean my bicycle well in the late fall/early winter, and then I'd use chainsaw grease (good to -40!) on my chain in the bitterly cold temps. It was runny to apply, but seemed quite effective to keep the chain moving nicely in those temps.

Machka - Chainsaw bar oil is pretty much the same thing as Phil Wood tenacious oil... except it costs about 1/10 of the price...synthetic 10/30 is also good chain lube as it too stays fluid at extremely cold temps and is what I run in my internal gear hubs for the winter.

You really should be voted the ice queen.

Is it to cold.....
If it is fun then no....If it is not fun then what's the point?

I'm only saying this one more time. Fun? There's no fun in cycling.

http://www.royhooper.com/nocrying'jpeg.jpg

In some sad way p-cad....I actually agree with that statement:(...

Only when you get in touch with your self-loathing you realize how the suffering and misery we endure for our sport leads to the true inner Zen and happiness we all seek.

In the future when trying to navigate the Pcad bull**** on BF, I recommend these:

http://www.scierra.com/pictures/clot...p_ambience.jpg