The Fat Guy In The Back
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
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Bikes: '81 Panasonic Sport, '02 Giant Boulder SE, '08 Felt S32, '10 Diamondback Insight RS, '10 Windsor Clockwork, '15 Kestrel Evoke 3.0, '19 Salsa Mukluk
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Consecutive bicycle work commute number 1338:
Asterisk commute today. Woke up to -10°F actual air temperature, with a 22 mph wind. According to the NWS wind chill calculator, that makes it feel like -36°F. My body concurred with the NWS.
My wife isn't comfortable with me riding in temps below -5°F (actually, she's not comfortable with that temp either, but we've settled on that temperature as a compromise.) So I did a split commute where I rode about 1.25 miles to a bus stop, took the bus downtown, and then finished riding another .5 miles to the office. The funny thing is, as I stood motionless at the stop waiting for the bus to arrive, I think I got colder than I would have been just riding the whole way.
Even with that shortened commute I was having trouble with my goggles icing over. At these temps I haven't found an effective solution.