The ride home today was around 10 degrees warmer than the morning ride.  I shed the extra layer of socks, PolarTec top, and head band.  It was a fairly comfortable ride.  I rode into the park to check the road conditions, with the expectation that I would have to hike the River Rd access road. …

19° for my ride this morning.  I rode down Lawyers Hill with the intent of riding into the park, but found (not unexpectedly) that the River Rd access road was still snow covered.  Not possessing snow tires, and not feeling like hiking it in road cleats, I turned around and detoured onto U.S. 1 to…

Wow, it’s supposed to get all the way up to 37 today.  That’s going to feel downright balmy on the ride home. Did the same ride as yesterday with the same clothes.  There are still 4 or 5 icy spots where I need to unclip and walk/slide myself and the bike across/over, but I’m getting…

Not too much to say about yesterday’s ride home. Uneventful, around 30 degrees. Wore the same stuff as the morning ride minus the head band, and was comfortable. This morning, I switched to the fixie, with a couple of new twists. The first addition was fenders, which I put on last week, to see how…

Yesterday evening’s ride was uneventful. I wore the same clothes minus the arm warmers. It was a few degrees warmer (around 28) and I probably should have shed the PolarTec top instead and kept the arm warmers. That’s what I did this morning, which was 27 with a bit less wind. I was comfortable for…

My first ride of the new year was a 15-miler to work. Temperature was 25 with a wind chill of around 13. Not the coldest conditions I’ve ever ridden in, but one of the longer sub-freezing rides I’ve taken (most of my really cold rides last winter were around 8 miles straight to work). I…

I finished up 2009 with 144 rides in to work on the bike, which is an average of 12 per month. My goal for 2010 is to top that. I’m expecting the weather to keep me off the bike more this winter than last, but hopefully I can make up for that with more rides…