I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Tricolor on January 14, 2014 at 4:30am

Not too bad; I figure all the salt will get rid of what ice is left on the trail so it'll snow over pavement and there won't be any hidden patches tonight.

At the least I won't be riding into the wind like this morning. I didn't realize how just a few weeks not commuting can affect me.

The underpass at North is under about three inches of water, too. I passed Gene just before it and wondered if he was going to sink.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on January 14, 2014 at 5:00am

I got out the pontoons and was fine.

I just reported it to the Park District.

Tricolor said: The underpass at North is under about three inches of water, too. I passed Gene just before it and wondered if he was going to sink.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by yaj 7.4 on January 14, 2014 at 5:05am

I rode yesterday, but I must have lost my layering skills during those two prior weeks off. I overdressed on the way in and roasted. Then I over-corrected and under-dressed on the way home. Duh

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on January 14, 2014 at 5:08am

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by JMinHP on January 14, 2014 at 5:15am

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the wind doesn't do a 180 before tonight's commute home. The current weather forecast on the Trib is that the southerly winds are supposed to shift to a very strong northerly headwind for those going north:

Cloudy. Snow or mixed snow and rain develops later this morning changing to all snow then continuing at times Tuesday afternoon. -Slippery travel conditions possible later this morning and afternoon. Windy and colder. Southerly winds 12 to 24 mph shifting west to northwest and strengthening 20 to 35 mph through evening and early Tuesday night. Snow showers Tuesday night, quite windy and colder. 1 to 2" possible -- possibly some local 3" amounts north in counties toward the Illinois/Wisconsin line. -Northwest winds 14 to 32 mph with gusts to 40 mph generating wind chills with drop below zero around midnight and to 0 to 10-below by daybreak Tuesday. Lows drop to single digits inland to low and mid teens in the Loop.

Tricolor said:

At the least I won't be riding into the wind like this morning. I didn't realize how just a few weeks not commuting can affect me.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Tricolor on January 14, 2014 at 5:21am

That Bill Cosby routine was supposed to be a joke, not reality!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on January 14, 2014 at 5:29am

The southbound bike traffic signal on the south side of Madison Street is bent to the east, so it is no longer visible from the Dearborn bike lane. I reported it to 311.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on January 14, 2014 at 5:29am

You mean about walking to school in the snow uphill in both directions?

Tricolor said:

That Bill Cosby routine was supposed to be a joke, not reality!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on January 14, 2014 at 5:32am

Yeah, it was really bad. I didn't bother trying to wade though it. Instead I rode a block north to the sidewalk along La Salle Drive to get the Lake Front Trail.

rwein5 said:

The North Ave underpass is disaster. Last night I had to hop off divvy part way through the tunnel out of fear of drowning. All I had to show for it was two soaking wet feet for the rest of the ride home

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on January 14, 2014 at 5:36am

JM 6.5 said:

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the wind doesn't do a 180 before tonight's commute home.

I think you might be a little disappointed. My favorite weather page is, hands down, the National Weather Service's hourly weather graphs page. That shows the wind having already shifted to come out of the west, and that it is likely to shift a bit more to come out of the WNW by 4pm.

BTW, the graphs at the bottom were what convinced me not to ride today. Looks like a mix of rain, snow and sleet until mid-afternoon. I translated that to "big fat mess" for the commute home, so took the train this morning.