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Cycling year around in New York should be relatively easy. There is winter cycling culture in much harsher climates https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb
by dirtyaura 6y ago
Cycling year around in New York should be relatively easy.
There is winter cycling culture in much harsher climates https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/12/ice-cycles-northerly-world-cities-winter-bicycle-revolution https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/12/ice-cycles-no...
- eru 6y agoI visited Oulu in late November to early December a few years ago. Yes, they cycle.
- gridlockd 6y agoThere's a reason why Finland or Canada or Alaska are sparsely populated: The weather. Sure, those people who can be bothered with it might pick up the cycle during the winter. Those people who can't be bothered are going to pick up their stuff and leave.
- distances 6y agoI'm from one of those northern areas. Very few people leave because of the weather even if they don't like it. It's mostly because of studying and career opportunities. North is sparsely populated because the crops were historically poor and prone to losses due to weather conditions, not because people don't like the weather.
- throwaway8941 6y agoI live in a place with -40-45°C (-40-50°F) winters. We've got lots of cyclists even in these conditions.
- lostlogin 6y agoHang on, -40 to -45 winters and people bike?
- ginko 6y agoI cycled to work through an entire winter in Trondheim, Norway.
- gridlockd 6y agoNobody is going to boast about not doing that, so let me just speak for a large but not very vocal part of the general population when I say: I ain't gonna do that.
- bpyne 6y agoI looked up Trondheim, NO weather. It's only Rhode Island cold not Minnesota cold. Plenty of people in Providence, RI bike in the Winter. Trondheim also doesn't have the range found in either RI or MN so you don't get ridiculous heat and humidity to bike in.
- CamperBob2 6y agoWhat sort of gear do you need for conditions like that? During one cold snap, my chain literally froze on a long ride through some light rain/sleet. (No, I don't know how that happened, but it did.) And that was in the Seattle area, where it rarely gets all that cold.
- bart_spoon 6y agoI was a Mormon missionary in Hokkaido in some of the snowiest places in the world and got around just fine using a cheap mountain bike. The only additional "equipment" needed was a lighter, to thaw out my bike lock when it would freeze shut.
- gridlockd 6y agoI see where this thread is going... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
- bart_spoon 6y agoWe also rode uphill, both ways!