Raining and cold on a bike are just issues of wardrobe. Typically, a cycling cap, windbreaker, and gloves are perfectly adequate for most dry days above freezin

Raining and cold on a bike are just issues of wardrobe. Typically, a cycling cap, windbreaker, and gloves are perfectly adequate for most dry days above freezing. The most bike commuting city in the world is Copenhagen, Denmark. They manage the winters just fine. That said, getting from here-to-there is challenging for most novice bike commuters, and having experience friends in the transit alternatives community is the only way for this knowledge to be passed from one person to another. In effect, the fact that the dressing for weather has been nullified by cars for three generations has effectively hamstrung us all because of the loss of cultural knowledge.