Hate to sound like a sissy but,,,,

I am so ready for Spring. I know there are quite a few hard core winter cyclist here but,,,,dog gone it my cycling tan lines are fadeing!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by GabeW (not the other Gabe) on January 15, 2009 at 9:33am
It should feel about 70 deg warmer next week according to CLTV. But I'm with you, this weather is just painful and the trainer is boring.
Permalink Reply by Bob on January 15, 2009 at 9:54am
,,,I have a spin bike at home which I torture myself with but it's just not the same!
Permalink Reply by millenial removing Bernie tattoo on January 15, 2009 at 10:49am
Winter cycling has its charms but I for one also look forward to cycling in short(s)/sleeves and going fast on nice clear roads.
Permalink Reply by justJason on January 15, 2009 at 12:43pm
Man. When I went home for the holidays I spent 8 glorious days of biking wearing shorts and short-sleeve shirts. Nothing was more morale-killing than coming back up here. I've succumbed to such a crap gloom that I can barely bring myself to ride much at all. Back and forth from work, that's about it. Maybe an extremity-killing 15 miler on the weekends, at best. But these abysmal street/neo-arctic conditions prevent me from doing much more outside. It's eviscerating my spirit. :(

I keep dreaming that I'm back living in Austin or N.O. And I'm really starting to think this means SOMETHING....
Permalink Reply by Bob on January 15, 2009 at 12:48pm
My mom lives right outside of Austin, and she makes it a point to tell me how "cold" it is down there right now. I'm just ready to start rideing with my group of friends again, the comaraderie, the sights, the pissing contests we like to call Wednesday night training rides and all that.
Permalink Reply by justJason on January 15, 2009 at 1:03pm
Indeed! My Austin/N.O. friends still insist on telling me about their painful "cold" they're enduring. Feh.

But I'm thinking I'm ready to be somewhere where I have more than half a year of kickass outdoors-ness, and where I don't don't have to consider the quizzical capriciousness of that cruel dick, Old Man Winter. Sigh. Strange thoughts, these days.
Permalink Reply by Bob on January 15, 2009 at 1:21pm
Although, I did visit my mom in the middle of July last year and it was nasty hot! Yeah, it's a dry heat but freakin' HOT no less! I don't think I could ride in those temps either.
Permalink Reply by Robert Beck on January 15, 2009 at 1:40pm
It seems that your not from Chicago pretty boy! Being born in Chicago I love the cold and all the seasons in which I am able to ride.
Permalink Reply by Bob on January 15, 2009 at 2:46pm
I was not born in Chicago but have been here for 36 years,,I would say that makes me a chicago native!
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on January 15, 2009 at 3:36pm
I don't hold it against you. I think I got some minor frostbite on my fingertips on my 4-mile ride home (Nashbar Outlast and Headsweats lobster claws on hands).

Of course, I thought it was just -7 when it really was -11.

Gotta break out some Grabber warmers tomorrow.
Permalink Reply by GabeW (not the other Gabe) on January 15, 2009 at 3:40pm
Born and raised. The cold sucks.

Robert Beck said:
It seems that your not from Chicago pretty boy! Being born in Chicago I love the cold and all the seasons in which I am able to ride.
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on January 15, 2009 at 3:44pm
Should they be jealous of -11.2 F temps?

BK said:
We have a unique biking opprotunity that people in warm weather states don't get. We get to ride in sun and snow. They should be jealous of us.

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