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Originally Posted by pope04
Let us know how it went. If you're like me, I suspect your temp range will expand. For me, I used to be a fair weather commuter only - if the pavement was even wet, I drove. -10 in the winter and was the coldest for me. Gradually, my stable of bikes, wheels, tires, tools, cycling attire etc grew so I could handle any conditions at almost a moment's notice.
We had such a great winter that I was able to push through - even that gnarly week just before Grey Cup.
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My intro to commuting was awesome. Brought 10 days of dress clothes to the office, made arrangements with Fishman's for pick-up/dropoff. Top of 14th NW down to Kensington rd is net downhill. It was a major adrenaline rush. Noticed a lot of things that drivers wouldn't notice: all the lights by nosehill are at the start of an uphill, it's all pathway until you pass confed park. Wore my ski helmet (covers the ears, has bluetooth). Wife was nice to me; picked me up half-way all week because I still don't have enough lungs to get all the way home yet. Because I'm on a full-suss 29er on slicks, I may try to find a track on nosehill park parallel to 14th so that I don't have to stop for lights. My only problem: I have coarse hair that needs to be fully soaked down to remove the helmet head. The office is laughing at me for having 4 bottles of product and a hair dryer at the office. Not sure why I didn't do this years ago.
And I fully retract my statement regarding cars sharing not sharing the road. The stretch of 14th st south of 16th ave is all downhill, with cars stopped the whole way. I can see my line on the right IF cars could inch left a touch.