My Morning Commute

[Greenbelt]

@dbb 77125 wrote:

Doesn’t she have a pit crew for that stuff?

Which is why she usually never flats or has mechanicals like the rest of us!

[dbb]

@Greenbelt 77138 wrote:

Which is why she usually never flats or has mechanicals like the rest of us!

Covet

[Dickie]

@Greenbelt 77094 wrote:

— she never gets flats or mechanicals like the rest of us —

So, I guess I’m the jinx?… the first and only time we rode together she flatted during last years SHROW.

[Geoff]

This morning was a “personal chilliest” for me, with my thermometer showing 15-17. (For those of you who rode during the Polar Vortex, you have my respect.)

My commute takes about an hour, and I was pushng the limits of my clothing. I have some good cycling gloves, a size too large to leave room for my liner. The finger tips were headed toward numb and moose mitts would have been nice. My feet were better off than my hands (tennis shoes with heavy wool socks) but there would have been problems after another hour.

A word about the tennis shoes, since that must sound horribly anti-elite. These are not running shoes, which would breathe too much. I think a big advantage the tennis shoes have is a heavy rubber sole which insulates better than the soles on bike shoes. The disadvantage is that if you want to use booties, you have to get something 2 or 3 sizes too big to fit over that sole.

[cyclingfool]

@Geoff 77188 wrote:

This morning was a “personal chilliest” for me, with my thermometer showing 15-17. (For those of you who rode during the Polar Vortex, you have my respect.)

Yeah, this AM was nothing compared to the peak of the vortex. It actually felt warmer to me than yesterday, despite the fact that it was the same temp if not colder and the wind was more or less the same.

Between a scheduled day off Friday and Prez Day Monday, I’m hoping for a good snow and a five-day weekend… and for all the white and slippery stuff to be melted from the trails and roads by Tuesday so I don’t have to mess around with swapping tires.

On a related note, I really need to put together a spare wheelset before next year’s winter riding season so I can just change wheels instead of actually having to remove and remount tires which is getting to be a PITA.

[jabberwocky]

@cyclingfool 77192 wrote:

On a related note, I really need to put together a spare wheelset before next year’s winter riding season so I can just change wheels instead of actually having to remove and remount tires which is getting to be a PITA.

Spare wheelset? Spare bike is where its at.

[cyclingfool]

@jabberwocky 77194 wrote:

Spare wheelset? Spare bike is where its at.

In my dream world, I agree with you. Sadly, I am forced to live within constraints, both financial and physical (storage space), so n+1 only applies for now if we assume than n=0, and not the number of bikes I currently own.

[jrenaut]

@cyclingfool 77195 wrote:

…n=0…

A chill just went down my spine. That’s not real, right? N can never be zero…

[cyclingfool]

@jrenaut 77198 wrote:

A chill just went down my spine. That’s not real, right? N can never be zero…

If your n was 1, and some thief does an n-1 on your a$$, then sadly it can be zero… at least temporarily. I learned that the hard way. 😡

[consularrider]

@cyclingfool 77202 wrote:

If your n was 1, and some thief does an n-1 on your a$$, then sadly it can be zero… at least temporarily. I learned that the hard way. 😡

That’s just sad.

[TwoWheelsDC]

A little worried about tomorrow’s potential commute. My ride is all roads and I can’t imagine that there will be much extra room for me. Also, icy slush.

[OneEighth]

Meh.
Rule #5.
Carry on.

[KelOnWheels]

I tried to ride a CaBi this morning but the CaBis were all snug in their beds and wouldn’t come out.

So I had to WALK! Like… like some kind of BIPEDAL PRIMATE!

THE HORROR!

Actually it was kind of horror, the sidewalks kept trying to kill me. I would have been much safer in the street on a bike.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Drove. Given the state of the roads (super narrow, with lots of berms blocking sightlines), the number of salt trucks I had to maneuver around, and a surprisingly icy Westmoreland, I’m confident it was the safest option…now let us never speak of this again.

[DismalScientist]

Apparently for you people in East Westover the county deigned to drop a plow blade on your bucolic street. We plebes in West Westover had to portage our transportation to the nearest plowed secondary street.

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