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If Boomer’s is decided not to be a labyrinth–and I make no judgement–this one would seem to be:

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(Lousy pic quality because of children’s group playing on it and I didn’t want to seem too conspicuous.)

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Deceased now this little bit after the frame broke. Still miss it, but it still lives on through the rest of it being cannibalized for an $80 steel frame.

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@dbb 131329 wrote:

For the cool rides where fingerless gloves are too cold, I use PI Multisport Thermal Conductive Gloves

http://www.artscyclery.com/descpage-PITCG.html?gclid=Cj0KEQiA2b20BRDj4buduIG-y9EBEiQAhgMGFZjwCJG7gE2gpC8_CyBhFqDq7XjVcJzm_hy-SLBC9F4aAjjY8P8HAQ

They are about $20/pair

That’s the glove I had for those temps before, but my hands would sweat and then get cold because of it. I will still use them, but for the low- to mid-30s.

This specificity might seem strange, but you gotta run with what works for you.

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@hozn 131311 wrote:

I’m a big fan of the LG gloves (WindTex EcoFlex II specifically) that have venting in the palm for striking a balance between keeping fingers warm and keeping palms from getting too sweaty.

(The Sidewinders also look pretty nice; I’m a fan of the orange.)

Those Garneaus look good. Do they have good finger dexterity? One of the reasons I got the Fox gloves was people gave reviews saying they could do things like open their tire valves and such with them, and it turns out to be true. Not quite as important for commuting or training rides, but for mountain biking it seems little mechanicals crop up all the time.

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As much as sub-20 days are difficult, I also find 38- to 43-degree days to be as well. Too cold for fingerless gloves, but all the gloves I had left my hands sweaty. So I picked up a pair of these Fox Sidewinder gloves (which I haven’t posted in “I saw this deal” because they are no longer on sale for the 20 bucks I got them for; now they’re $23):

https://www.westernbikeworks.com/product/fox-sidewinder-polar-gloves

They work nicely for in-between days like today–maybe a touch chilly, but enough air circulation that there was no sweat. And as an added bonus, they were only in bright orange in my size; I saw several people staring at them last night like I was some sort of freak who would wear bright orange gloves.

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@Kitty 131301 wrote:

If I had a quarter for every time I’ve heard men quibble over the color pink (“It’s not pink, it’s light red/rose/pale amethyst…”) I’d be well on my way to my new bike wheels! :p

Enough on the color, I can’t wait for the picture! Now that I finally understand the rules (and have a new phone with working camera) I can’t wait to get in on this!

I’m in now too, having read all the posts.

Also, Boomer should get bonus points for that pic, no matter what color anyone thinks it is. Just look at it!

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@Bill Hole 131196 wrote:

I tank up before I leave and then again when I get there. My commute is 50-60 minutes and I never feel the need to hydrate during that short time span. If it was much longer, during winter I’d carry a water bottle in a carrier under my jacket.

If I tanked up before I left for a 50-minute ride I’d be looking for thick bushes or a big tree in a dimly lit area.

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@TwoWheelsDC 131182 wrote:

Yeah, I don’t carry any water on my 8 mile commute (in summer or winter). In the summer I might if I’m planning on doing hills or something (and if I remember), but rarely do I get thirsty on rides less than 2 hours.

I didn’t used to carry it either, summer or winter, but then I started drinking it at work rather than buying it. Then I started drinking it occasionally on the ride. It’s habit forming.

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@mstone 131154 wrote:

Freezing solid? Insulated or uninsulated bottle? There’s a lot more thermal mass in a water bottle than a camelback tube, so a half-hour to freeze-through seems fast. You can also provide more pressure to a bottle to break through a thin crust of ice than you can provide suction on a tube (<15psi assuming a perfect vacuum and that neither the tube nor your face collapse).

Uninsulated. Froze to the point that it wouldn’t squeeze and I couldn’t get water out through suckage or chewage when I got to work. It felt like a solid rock, but you could hear some water moving inside the ice. As I think about it more, those were the couple of days when it got down to about 6 degrees, not low teens.

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@hozn 131146 wrote:

Back when cycling was all casual, I also used a camelbak (on mtb only of course!) and I did find that blowing back into the tube helped, as Tania suggested, but when I switched to riding pretty much exclusively with bottles I found they were much better in winter — and really do last a long time (~1 hour?) in very cold temps before freezing through. Usually my body’s extremities are freezing through around the same time the bottles freeze through, so that worked out great.

My water bottle will generally freeze on my half-hour, 8-mile commute when it gets down to the low teens. Last winter, for instance, it froze a couple of times, but it wasn’t a hardship since I didn’t have the dexterity to use the bottle anyway in those conditions. The other morning, at 14 degrees, it just got refreshingly icy.

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I no longer have the email where they announced the new racks, but my memory is that it was the floors where they felt putting in bolts would be a problem. The epoxy is a good idea.

Ever since I heard that a few little bolts were going to make the parking garage floors unsafe, I’ve curiously felt the need to get out of there as fast as possible, and never go to the lower floors.

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@mstone 131059 wrote:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a garage with nothing bolted to it somewhere.

Here are the special unmounted mountable racks in my workplace in DC. Since the garage is guarded and only has one organization using it, it’s not likely anyone’s going to come in with a van and take a whole section of rack with the bikes.

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@Tim Kelley 131053 wrote:

Where is this? Was it part of a redevelopment? If so, that type of thing can be enforced.

No, an existing nonprofit in DC. There is a guard at the gate so it’s probably okay; I just found it humorous that they put in these unmounted mountable racks.

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Ooh, nice. Would be ignored where I am though. They didn’t even bolt the racks to the floor because they said it would endanger the structure of the parking garage. But at least they did replace the old fence rack with a string of (unbolted!) U racks.

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For me it just feels like the tires are sticking to the road fighting me, and somewhat that the crank is resisting more. I also feel it going uphill when there’s not much wind resistance anyway. That’s why I’ve felt it was a friction thing more than the heavier air. After this morning, I almost feel like putting the summer tires back on (though it’s probably not worth having to fix a flat at 15 degrees) and maybe removing and relubing my crank.

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