crazy biking

I live 5 miles away from where i work out here in the boonies, and each day now that's it's colder my coworkers say "your crazy to bike when it's so cold out" has anyone else heard these comments and what do you say to them?

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on November 30, 2010 at 1:49pm
I tell them if they think I am crazy then they should hear what the voices in my head are saying right now...
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on November 30, 2010 at 4:32pm
I"m thinking along the lines of a confused 'OK', as in, "OK, why do you think it's so cold out?"
H3N3 said:
I'll admit I've been following this thread but having a hard time parsing "OK" as a response.
Maybe I need to hear the intonation to understand how it's meant.
Is there any sort of hand gesture or eye-rolling or pelvic motion that accompanies it? Is it muttered under one's breath, or shouted with enthusiasm? Or posed as a question?
Permalink Reply by Will on November 30, 2010 at 5:33pm
I love this thread. I hear this almost everyday from friends and colleagues. I bike from the Uk Village to Uptown almost every weekday and I simply state, " I'm warm within 2 minutes," which is true.
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on December 1, 2010 at 6:32am
I guess. I haven't watched Spade in years.
H3N3 said:
So . . . kind of a David Spade thing?


Tank-Ridin' Ryan said:
I"m thinking along the lines of a confused 'OK', as in, "OK, why do you think it's so cold out?"
H3N3 said:
I'll admit I've been following this thread but having a hard time parsing "OK" as a response.
Maybe I need to hear the intonation to understand how it's meant.
Is there any sort of hand gesture or eye-rolling or pelvic motion that accompanies it? Is it muttered under one's breath, or shouted with enthusiasm? Or posed as a question?
Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on December 1, 2010 at 6:36am
I had a crossing guard tell me that it was too cold for me to be biking this morning. I feel bad crossing guards...they don't get to get moving and warm up like we do.
Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on December 1, 2010 at 11:13am
I'm 47. Started biking to work 9/2009; rode through all of last winter & will through this winter. Not a really big deal, 16 miles round trip from Buena Park to South Loop.
Sometimes I have a business dinner, date with wife, etc. and have to take the train; but bike wins hands down. 2010 have biked to work 179 days; took CTA 22 days.
When my peers question my sanity (any season) I pat myself on the stomach and say "13 pounds down and still going."
Honestly, the days I take the train I realize how much I don't miss it!
Permalink Reply by A.K.A Paul on December 1, 2010 at 11:45am
I was in a conversation about biking through the winter with my 80+ y.o aunt on Thanksgiving.

Her reply was "when did you get so weird"?
Permalink Reply by knowbody on December 1, 2010 at 11:48am
i've only recently started to cycle up and down the coast in search of ridable waves. the best surfing on the lake happens when colder air blows over the relatively warmer water (usually winter time). for some reason people don't even bother to ask any more... guess one look at the icicles hanging off of the mustache and eyebrows and they'll already have their answer.
Permalink Reply by Jay on December 1, 2010 at 12:44pm
The best are the "you're crazy" comments from people standing at a bus stop with no gloves or hat on when it's in the 20s. OK.
Permalink Reply by Reddog (Cliff) on December 1, 2010 at 1:47pm
No one has accused me of being crazy, but one person did ask me if I have a "cut off" point, as far as how cold it gets. I just told them that the temperature is never a real problem, but a real heavy snowstorm, like the kind we have in January or February might do it.
People rarely ever talk to me at work, probably because I'm the guy who never says anything to anyone unless I absolutely have to. I've noticed that some folks are intimidated by that, which is fine with me.
Permalink Reply by GEORGE VANDERFOR on December 1, 2010 at 2:33pm
i say you only get cold when your old and don't move enough to even consider it exercise. i have told my kids they can put me in a home when i stop riding
Permalink Reply by Holly on December 1, 2010 at 7:41pm
I just thought of this saying that certain types of officey people always post in their office or cube and I think it may be an appropriate response: "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!"

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