I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

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Permalink Reply by JeffB on December 18, 2013 at 6:55am

Yeah, what is it about Damen? I rode all over last night doing Christmas errands and Damen was the worst arterial street. Even the car lane wasn't good.

yaj 7.4 said:

Yep, and I'm grateful to all the drivers who didn't beep or menace me when I took the lane on Damen tonight. I was avoiding the tire sucking slush in the bike lane.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on December 18, 2013 at 7:05am

Maybe the city doesn't consider it an arterial? :-)

JeffB (7+ miles) said:

Yeah, what is it about Damen? I rode all over last night doing Christmas errands and Damen was the worst arterial street. Even the car lane wasn't good.

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on December 18, 2013 at 11:11am

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Mulcky on December 19, 2013 at 4:18am

My regular commuting bike was out of service this morning and so I rode my Pinarello to work today. Two observations:

It feels soooo nice to ride a nice lightweight bike after being on my commuter/winter bike for so long. The ride downtown almost felt effortless.
FENDERS! Fenders are worth their weight in gold on days like this. I never really appreciated having them until arriving to work today covered in gunk from tip to tail. And, the fancy bike got all dirty too....

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on December 19, 2013 at 4:26am

Fenders are really great - most of the time. On Monday I found my 87 Voyageur grinding to a near halt as the fenders got jam packed with snow!

Kelvin Mulcky said:

My regular commuting bike was out of service this morning and so I rode my Pinarello to work today. Two observations:

It feels soooo nice to ride a nice lightweight bike after being on my commuter/winter bike for so long. The ride downtown almost felt effortless.

FENDERS! Fenders are worth their weight in gold on days like this. I never really appreciated having them until arriving to work today covered in gunk from tip to tail. And, the fancy bike got all dirty too....

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on December 19, 2013 at 4:38am

Your Pinarello was probably really mad at you for subjecting him to the ignominy of being pressed into commuting duty. :-)

Kelvin Mulcky said:

My regular commuting bike was out of service this morning and so I rode my Pinarello to work today. Two observations:

It feels soooo nice to ride a nice lightweight bike after being on my commuter/winter bike for so long. The ride downtown almost felt effortless.

FENDERS! Fenders are worth their weight in gold on days like this. I never really appreciated having them until arriving to work today covered in gunk from tip to tail. And, the fancy bike got all dirty too....

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on December 19, 2013 at 4:41am

Stuck until spring?

Just before sunrise:

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Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on December 19, 2013 at 4:43am

Lovely morning for a bike ride.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on December 19, 2013 at 5:15am

Shall we start a photo competition between Skip and Gene? Gentlemen, your photos are greatly appreciated.

And I did ride today--a veritable heat wave.

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Permalink Reply by T.K. 3.5 mi on December 19, 2013 at 5:25am

It's a shorts day! (with cycle tights underneath)...

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Permalink Reply by yai danche on December 19, 2013 at 5:56am

Thanks JM. I had a suspicion that I wasn't twisting it hard enough.
JM 6.5 said:

You're right - 3 is the highest gear. I like to think of changing Divvy gears to the throttle on a motorcyle - rotate my hand towards my body to shift up a gear as you would increase the throttle on a motorcycle; rotate your hand away from your body to shift down.

I'm surprised to hear you had a problem shifting. Hopefully it was just the one bike. I've been riding Divvy for the past few weeks (at least since the salt trucks came out) and haven't had any mechanical issues in the cold or slush.

yai danche said:

I tried to ride Divvy today, but got frustrated trying to change the gear. I figured it was a grip twist, but couldn't get it to move. N00b question: is 3 the highest resistance gear? Anyways I gave up, docked it, and took the CTA.