I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

 

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on February 21, 2014 at 5:27am

Your mind may be great, but mine is just mediocre. I get lucky a lot. Keep taking those photos; they look terrific.
 
rwein5 said:

I took a nearly identical pic last week! Great minds...

Permalink Reply by David Barish on February 21, 2014 at 5:40am

You made a good choice. I was in a car on Clark St., a main road, this morning and saw a number of cyclists. I regretted being in a car until I saw a guy going northbound in Andersonville fall over at an intersection. It seemed that he hit an unanticipated patch of ice. Fortunately, he was not hit by anything other than the pavement. He got up and was inspecting his bike which did not look damaged. 

Adam Herstein said:

I did not ride today. Side streets looked icy, and while main roads seemed okay, the ice seems to magically pile up right where the bike lane starts.

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on February 21, 2014 at 5:44am

Glad he was okay! Ice + high wind is usually not a good combination. Plus, the Lake Front Trail was in such bad shape last night, I doubt it has improved any today. Usually when I anticipate poor conditions on the LFT, I take my "snow route" which is Broadway–Clark–Wells to the Loop, but even those streets had icy spots.

David Barish said:

You made a good choice. I was in a car on Clark St., a main road, this morning and saw a number of cyclists. I regretted being in a car until I saw a guy going northbound in Andersonville fall over at an intersection. It seemed that he hit an unanticipated patch of ice. Fortunately, he was not hit by anything other than the pavement. He got up and was inspecting his bike which did not look damaged. 

Adam Herstein said:

I did not ride today. Side streets looked icy, and while main roads seemed okay, the ice seems to magically pile up right where the bike lane starts.

Permalink Reply by The Grizz on February 21, 2014 at 8:46am
Wind was brutal this morning. With sunny skies now the ride home shouldn't be too bad.
Permalink Reply by Robert Underwood on February 21, 2014 at 11:26am

Looks like someone dropped their blue-rasberry slushy.  Mmmm... so delish.
 
Gene Tenner said:

Permalink Reply by EssFresh on February 21, 2014 at 12:26pm
Nice except when the wind gusts.
Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on February 21, 2014 at 1:26pm

'Twas a nice ride home unless you are someone who is just cruising along the lakefront trail when your derailleur snaps off, you try to velcro it so you you can make it home, but that doesn't work, and then you remember that some bikes have chains wiith removable links and you find yours, remove the link - you have never done this before - remove the derailleur in 20 degree weather with 20 mph winds that are blowing your trike around and numbing your fingers, and single-speed it 2 miles to your favorits bike shop, Uptown Bikes, where they eagerly reaasure you that everything is all right and they will fix it.

I hope that was not you and write long, run-on sentences.

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on February 21, 2014 at 2:39pm

Well of course it was actually about 33 degrees, so no one would have had this happen to them or write run-on sentences about something that could not have happened today.

Gene Tenner said:

'Twas a nice ride home unless you are someone who is just cruising along the lakefront trail when your derailleur snaps off, you try to velcro it so you you can make it home, but that doesn't work, and then you remember that some bikes have chains wiith removable links and you find yours, remove the link - you have never done this before - remove the derailleur in 20 degree weather with 20 mph winds that are blowing your trike around and numbing your fingers, and single-speed it 2 miles to your favorits bike shop, Uptown Bikes, where they eagerly reaasure you that everything is all right and they will fix it.

I hope that was not you and write long, run-on sentences.

Permalink Reply by Simon Phearson on February 22, 2014 at 5:10am

Took an exploratory ride on the LFP this morning. I hope and wish they will do something about all the ice; if we have to wait until it all thaws and evaporates, it's going to be essentially unrideable for a long time.

Permalink Reply by Ryan Stahlman on February 22, 2014 at 6:40am

Oh yeah, what is the ice situation? How much was there? I was hoping to ride home tonight on the LFP. 

Permalink Reply by Simon Phearson on February 22, 2014 at 7:06am

It depends on your ice tolerance level. There's a very large, frozen lake at about 4100 S that I did not try to go over, heading north. Runners were going around, through the mud, so there might be a bypass that way. I ended up leaving the trail and taking side streets to Oakwood/39th. From there north and south, there's still a lot of ice patches, which I took slow and straight, but nothing like what I found at 4100 S. 

I'd intended to take side streets back south to check out that situation, but then my chain busted at about Roosevelt. So that was fun.

This guy took a good picture of the ice lake: http://instagram.com/p/kufV2_HFVb/


Ryan Stahlman said:

Oh yeah, what is the ice situation? How much was there? I was hoping to ride home tonight on the LFP. 

Permalink Reply by Simon Phearson on February 22, 2014 at 7:06am

It would appear that's the plan, yes.

peter moormann said:

THEY..... will do nothing?

Simon Phearson said:

Took an exploratory ride on the LFP this morning. I hope and wish they will do something about all the ice; if we have to wait until it all thaws and evaporates, it's going to be essentially unrideable for a long time.

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