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walkin'. More of a workout.
Anyone know whether the Lakefront Trail has been plowed? I wish there was a way to check this info consistently.
Are you using "knobs" and "studs" interchangeably?
I'd think knobs would help on the current packed down stuff, but studs wouldn't unless it was a slick/frozen icy surface?
David A. Pertuz said:Just fine, slightly squirrelly. Using my MTB as my ice/heavy snow/crap weather bike (it's the one that got the studs this year) and I have to re-accustom myself to its handling - quicker front end than my usual bike and I have a hard time generally on the compacted stuff on my unplowed residential street, even with the knobs on the Nokians. Otherwise it's easy. I may try my normal bike tonight to see if the narrower tires push through the packed-down stuff any better.
David
Slow cookers and crock pot cooking is the shit!
As for me, I didn't go out in the snow. As much as I should have and wanted to, I chose to hang with my cat instead. Some good brushing and bonding, clipped his nails and watched terrible movies together. He's got a thing for Christina Ricci so we watched The Opposite Of Sex and shoveled snow..
Brian Kennedy said:What could be cooler than riding in a fresh snowfall? How 'bout riding in a fresh snowfall with a crock pot!!! That is so funny and awesome! Thanks for the mental image.
Laura Blake said:Proud to say no wipeouts today! ...unlike the last snowfall. Even with a crock pot in tow, it wasn't too terrible. Only had to walk down a few side streets that haven't seen the plows yet. Now everyone at work *officially* thinks I'm nutty.....love it.
Has anyone else noticed that drivers seem especially bad at respecting cyclists lately?
I've had numerous problems with drivers and close calls since the snow his the ground.
In the last 2 days I've almost been hit 5 times. Its enough to make me not want to cycle again until the snow is gone. 4 of the incidents involve stop signs where I had the right of way and a driver started going after I had anyway thinking they would beat me (I'm assuming) and instead by the time they started moving I was directly in front of them. Today on the way to work I had someone pass within 2 inches of me, nearly pinning my against the wall on lower Columbus when there was no one in the left lane, and he was approaching a red light. I'm thinking about getting some reflective 3 ft signs printed out and lamented and pinning them to my back and pannier so that maybe drivers will figure out not to pass so close, especially with all the pot hole, and current slushy areas.
M.A.R.K, that cat is beautiful! We adopted some kittens a few weeks ago so I'm fully down with the hunkering down for a cozy creature weekend, or winter or whatever.
I am ashamed to admit that I chickened out and took the CTA on Friday (and worked from home on Thursday). I did make a cargo run to the recycling facility yesterday, which went fine - but by then the streets on that route anyway were all clear.
Today however I found the bike lane (or whatever it is) on Loomis north of the river mostly unplowed. A strip less than a foot wide was plowed, but it was sporadically full of chunks of ice and crap. Even in the best of circumstances it can be dicey sometimes on Loomis as impatient drivers sometimes use the bike lane to pass slower vehicles.
So I just called 311 about it. The operator told me he'd "put it in the system make them aware of it and see if we can get them out there to plow." He was super nice about it, as the 311 people usually are.
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