@MarkBrigham has a poll:
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@MarkBrigham @bikenite @ascentale
#bikenite A3:
My coldest ride this season was -11F, with -31F wind-chill. I bailed after 3 miles for a 6 mile round trip.@MartyCormack @MarkBrigham @bikenite @ascentale Ilearned when I commuted in that ... that I *had* to peel off the layers when I got to work or the cold air would work in the rest of the way and I'd be cold. I'd hve 5 layers on so by the time the cold got through them, I was putting out enough heat to stave it off... but I wouldn't have wanted to go longer than my 45 minute commute. And ... I stopped doing that when I got comfortable with the bus.
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite
#BikeNite A3. Though, prefer high 50's and 60's. Will briefly go out in much colder temps, as long as it's not raining.
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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've been outside at 0°C in Sydney once, but that's such a rare icy cold temperature here that any lower is "I rode round inside a commercial coolstore"
But I've ridden in real snow in Aotearoa 30 years ago which doesn't really count IMO. A bit like a couple of people I know who've ridden below -40° at Scott Base. You do it have done it, not so much for transport.
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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.
@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite @SRLevine I find the humidity is a bigger deal than the temperature when it's below freezing. Also depends on gear and distance. I was perfectly comfortable bumbling around Banff at 0°F in the dry in full skiing attire, but I didn't have to get anywhere quickly or change into office clothes.
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite We rarely get -15 "C or -20 "C in Berlin anymore due to manmade climate heating, but some days to -10 °C and some weeks to -5 °C we just currently have.
And many cyclists still do their regular commute ( #mdRzA = mit dem Rad zur Arbeit = with the cycle to work // #mdRzE = …zum Einkaufen = …to shopping) here, including me.
️Some even longer tours ( #FrostPendeln = frosty commute // #mdRddG = mit dem Rad durch die Gegend = …around the scenery).
@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 )
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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 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
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@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 @MarkBrigham @bikenite @pekkatahkola @radaufheber
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@ascentale @MarkBrigham @bikenite @pekkatahkola @radaufheber
#bikenite Don't forget us Minnesotans.@MartyCormack Oh sorry!
(had hoped to include all colder temperature regions with the word "nordic", my bad)
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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.
