We’ve had a complicated relationship with biking in the winter. Unlike some of our favourite channels on the topic, we’re not long-time winter cyclists ourselves. We only started getting into year-round cycling a few years ago. At first it was exciting, we were breaking a mental block that we didn’t realize we had. So you don’t need to stop biking when the weather gets cold and snow starts to fall? Why didn’t anyone tell us this before? Why is our culture so weird about this? But biking in the winter never really became something we did that often. We did it here and there, it was a fun novelty, but it never felt that natural and we still shifted to walking and transit for most of our winter transportation needs.
Well that escalated quickly.
My closest experience biking in freezing temperatures is when I was very young at a park with my father. He drove over a patch of ice and spun out, gashing his forehead. There was so much blood.
Needless to say, I learned biking in freezing was dangerous that day. We moved to an area these conditions don’t exist and I never gave it a second thought. Literally didn’t know studded tires existed for bikes and the other posters here were pulling my leg. Today I learned. Again, I’m impressed.
Take a chill pill jerkface.