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I started doing the same thing last year, at least when the weather is pleasant. It's an amazingly liberating experience. It makes you look forward to spring.
by Duff 14y ago
I started doing the same thing last year, at least when the weather is pleasant. It's an amazingly liberating experience.
It makes you look forward to spring. I live in a place that typically has bad winters, so the prospect of breaking my neck on ice is not very appealing!
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoI live in southern Ontario and commute on foot year-round. There's no weather that appropriate outerwear can't handle.
- phoobahr 14y agoI grew up in Alberta and fresh dry wind blown snow is hard to walk on, like dry sand. Slow going. I now live in Vancouver and despite temperature it gets damp enough that movement without sweating is well nigh impossible. Good thing I work at a pool and don't give a damn. Either way cycling is still better.
- Duff 14y agoAbsolutely true -- it's more of a risk mitigation thing for me. I had a ruptured disk and a spinal fusion a few years ago that went really well.... and I'm a little paranoid about keeping it that way!
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoThere are some pretty significant risks associated with driving as well, including both the risk of injury/death in a collision and the sheer sedentary seat time.
- bosie 14y agouse studded tires. mine last at least 3 seasons with daily commute. http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp since i put the studded tires on, i have not slipped once. i haven't even come close to slipping to be honest. i pretty much rie as i would on clear, dry asphalt.