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lil  ·  3742 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 19, 2014

Left this morning before the pub opened. Parked my bike. When I left at 4:30 it was almost dark and there was blowing and piling snow. I dug out my bicycle and cruised home, totally loving my wide trail bike tires!!

But it's just Canada, not like Buffalo NY or anything.

Buffalo: 60" of snow today - about as high as your average 10-year-old.

I'll just thaw out for a bit. See y'all later.





elizabeth  ·  3742 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Gotta get some wide tires too!

Biked to show the neighborhood to the couchsurfer i'm hosting right now:

Almost fell over twice. It was fun but i'm never doing that again.

kleinbl00  ·  3742 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Been seeing these recently:

They're intended for sand but I'll bet they'd do pretty good in snow, too.

lil  ·  3742 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, those tires look good. I think I'd feel safe on that bike! I'd love to try all kinds of bikes in this weather.

It's so crazy-dangerous snow-cycling in the city. It was all new-fallen so nothing had been plowed. I was afraid of hitting an ice patch and sliding into traffic. Luckily there's bicycle lanes most of my way home and it was fun. Several bikes passed me. At a light, a man crossing the street near me slipped and almost fell. He brushed away the snow and realized he had slipped on a flattened cardboard box. That's the thing about the snow: You can't see what it's covering and any number of things could cause me to fall.

I still need better gloves and a balaclava to wear under my helmet.

kleinbl00  ·  3742 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was willing to ride the motorcycle in Seattle if there was snow on the ground but not on the road. Off-camber is a bad place to be with ice.