@MarkBrigham has a poll:
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite
-18C, but not by choice. Only if I have errands I have to do. Living in a small town helps with that. -13.33C is my true limit where it becomes too uncomfortable. -7.77C if I don't have warming socks or ski goggles. On the other end of the temperature 40C in a dry climate is my limit. 35C in a humid climate.
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@MartyCormack Oh sorry!
(had hoped to include all colder temperature regions with the word "nordic", my bad)
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @pekkatahkola@ascentale @MarkBrigham @pekkatahkola @radaufheber
#bikenite
Given the number of folks here with Swedish or Norwegian ancestry, "Nordic" might seemingly apply to Minnesota too. (My Minnesota born wife is part Swedish.) -
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite Perhaps you need to do another poll with lower temperatures for our scandinavian and nordic biketooters like https://mas.to/@pekkatahkola/109392939516261678 and for canadian cyclists, too.
Video what to wear when cycling in -25 °C: https://mas.to/@pekkatahkola/115849743090863552
️ @pekkatahkola @ascentale @radaufheber @pekkatahkola @bikenite The sub-zero heroes could be an entirely new poll, and one I will not participate in. 🥶
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite Going "Zero hero", though I haven't actually gone that low and would probably consider just not. However, I've done in the low teens F (slightly regrettably) and would go lower with the right gear.
Fortunately frozen tears make a pretty solid wind cover.
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite
A3. I'll go pretty cold, mostly because it is still far more pleasant than either driving or taking the bus. Having the right gear makes a huge difference!
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite
-18C, but not by choice. Only if I have errands I have to do. Living in a small town helps with that. -13.33C is my true limit where it becomes too uncomfortable. -7.77C if I don't have warming socks or ski goggles. On the other end of the temperature 40C in a dry climate is my limit. 35C in a humid climate.
@cainmark @ascentale @bikenite I’m impressed that your cold-weather-bikeability gauge is calibrated to one one-hundredth of a Celsius. #BikeNite
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite I find that the temp doesn't matter too much, so long as you don't have exposed skin and stay moving. Below -10°C I put thermals on under my pants to stop the wind, but other than that I'm pretty comfortable.
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite Problem is not the cold but the bad maintenance of cycling infrastructure surfaces: https://bildung.social/@lutz_/115994979092536283
(Video: https://youtu.be/ngCw3YxxMOg )
@ascentale @bikenite @radaufheber I agree, but I’d also say it’s both. I hate cycling in sub-freezing temperatures. Much respect to those who make it work, and I strongly believe our walk & roll infrastructure should be as fastidiously maintained as car infrastructure. But I just don’t enjoy cycling when the Celsiuses have all flown south.
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@bikenite @cpm @ascentale I do too. In my Boy Scout years, I winter camped in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temperatures, horribly under-geared, and thus “earned” a BSA Zero Hero honor. I borrowed the term from that experience
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite
When I lived somewhere we reached these temperatures I had some rules: if it was first thing in the morning it had to be above ~20F, if it was going home from work (and the bike was already at work) it had to be above ~10F. It has to do with the convenience of having my bike where I'm located (don't want to walk it somewhere or leave it somewhere) and whether I was showering in the morning and would have wet hair. My hair might be pretty short, but even pretty short hair will literally freeze if it's ~10F and you ride for 15 minutes. It was kind of disturbing to take my helmet off and have my hair feel crackly as the ice broke up.
TLDR: The difference from 32F to 0F is pretty big from a comfort perspective.
@bikenite @SRLevine @ascentale Agree. It’s a massive difference. Could split it up finer. Could also step down in ten degree increments to -41 degrees (where °C & °F intersect). But that’s for the comments, or another poll developed by someone way more masochistic than I.
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite A3. It doesn't get below freezing where I live now. In my time in Minneapolis, though, 32°F/0°C was my cutoff for riding for pleasure. On a rare above-freezing day in January, I would go for a long ride to savor it. Below freezing, I would only ride where I needed to go as quickly as possible and then hurry inside to warm up; that, I still did as low as 8°F (it was a relatively mild winter). #BikeNite
@scott @ascentale @bikenite In grad school at UMN, I lived 2 miles from my building on campus. Fair weather, I rode my bicycle. Cold, rainy, or otherwise horrible weather, I walked.
Cycling offers efficiency and speed (conditions allowing); walking offers near insurmountability in a wider array of weather conditions.
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite A3. As a rule of thumb, I won't ride in below freezing temperatures, because in Portland, that usually means the roads are sheets ice, and my e-bike back tire likes to slide out from under me if I brake too hard when it's slick.
@yantor3d I'm the same way up here in Seattle. I'd get studded tires, but they're needed so infrequently that I'll just stop riding on these rare days. Tho I am curious to see how well they work. Would still be cautious as I don't trust drivers in such conditions.
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite
25f don’t know how I settled on that but lower is too cold!!
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite #BikeNite A3. This is my 5th car-free Winter in New England. If I have to go out, there is no choice but to bike or walk.
If it's below 0°F, I still go, but although it has gone as low as -25°F here, with -50°F wind chills, it doesn't usually go much below 0°F. Tomorrow night, the forecast low is -6°F, with wind chills as low as -30°F.
Sunday's forecast high is 9°F, and I have at least 3 events to attend downtown. No worries, so long as the roads are dry.
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite
25f don’t know how I settled on that but lower is too cold!!
@bikenite @MCDuncanLab @ascentale Agree, but my cutoff is higher. You’re tougher than I am.
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite #BikeNite A3. This is my 5th car-free Winter in New England. If I have to go out, there is no choice but to bike or walk.
If it's below 0°F, I still go, but although it has gone as low as -25°F here, with -50°F wind chills, it doesn't usually go much below 0°F. Tomorrow night, the forecast low is -6°F, with wind chills as low as -30°F.
Sunday's forecast high is 9°F, and I have at least 3 events to attend downtown. No worries, so long as the roads are dry.
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite I'm going to a local bar for the Superb Owl, but because the bar is close to my home, I will probably leave the bike home, so I can walk home tipsy, and don't have to worry about the fact that the bar doesn't have a decent bicycle rack, anyway.
Oh, and FTR, I *still* haven't bothered putting on my Winter tires.
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@ascentale @bikenite @radaufheber I agree, but I’d also say it’s both. I hate cycling in sub-freezing temperatures. Much respect to those who make it work, and I strongly believe our walk & roll infrastructure should be as fastidiously maintained as car infrastructure. But I just don’t enjoy cycling when the Celsiuses have all flown south.
@MarkBrigham @ascentale For short trips up to 5 km I don't really care, but longer than 10 km is also not my pleasure at all. Depends very much on the road conditions (as you said) and how warm & cozy is the place at the end.
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite #BikeNite A3: I cycled at somewhere between -6℃ (21℉) and -8℃ (17.5℉) for at least 10km (6 miles) during my winter holidays. I would try cycling with even colder weather, but I haven't tried yet, so I actually can't tell my lower temperature limit. For the mentioned -18℃ I probably need some more clothes, maybe something Neopren-like…
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
#BikeNite A3: I've been out in slightly sub-freezing temperatures (-5C) and it's not unpleasant if I've dressed properly. The worst is the cold air funnelling down my coat, from right under my chin. Chills the whole body.
But give me summer temperatures (30C) any day!
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@MarkBrigham has a poll:
Q3. How low do you go? (Coldest temperature in which you willingly cycle).
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite A3. I have a bad habit of getting really sick when I ride below 10/50. My body revolts. Happens every time so I just stopped.
