33 Degrees
Some might say: Bike ride? Nutty idea. But others …
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This entry was posted on Friday, January 28th, 2022 at 7:41 am and is filed under Chet The Dog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
8:42 am on January 28th, 2022
Greetings!
As long as you get the ride in before it snows Spence, sounds like a good idea to me! :^)
The weather forecast calls for 6-9″ of snow in this neck of the woods.
Create a good day!
10:33 am on January 28th, 2022
Good day to all.
2:53 pm on January 28th, 2022
Do they make snow tires for bicycles?
4:02 pm on January 28th, 2022
MLAIUPPA: Alaskans have long used studded tires for winter bike riding. However, a few years ago we became the hot hub of the “fat wheel bike” phenomenon. I invite OFA to come and check them out.
5:37 pm on January 28th, 2022
Good day all.
We have seen the fat wheel bikes when in AK for
Iditarod races. They seem to work well and if we lived up
north, we’d have them. Much more sensible than chains
on car tires.
6:00 pm on January 28th, 2022
I saw a fat wheel bike when I got my second Covid shot. Had never seen one before.
Now, how about chains for bike tires?
6:53 pm on January 28th, 2022
Mlaiuppa, apparently with the width of the tire and the amount of weight on it, it holds it down so that it has traction. I’ve seen it on roads in Alaska and it seems to really work well.
10:04 pm on January 28th, 2022
Yeeep!…Even if the Charming Mr Abrahams had a basket on the front with my warm soft blanket innit…I would say NO!NO!NO! to the Ride….gasp!shiver!
10:05 pm on January 28th, 2022
Fat Tire!….Isn’t that a brand of Beer?…sniff!sniff!..I could be coaxed into some of that stuff!…chuffle!burp!
10:09 pm on January 28th, 2022
Degrees!…33 degrees sounds like Spring around here…grump!…I thought the North East was going to get a big snowstorm soon?….yelp!….I hope our author takes provisions along in case he is stranded and can’t get home on his skinny tires….wheeze!
10:09 pm on January 28th, 2022
When I was much much younger I rode my one-speed Schwinn cruiser bike year round in Montana. The tires were maybe half as wide as today’s fat tired bikes. The trick was to let a little of the air out so the tires were a tad soft and that helped with slippage. Also, you were always ready to bail if you started going over, meaning you would jump off out of the way of bike or traffic.
Normally I did not ride in much traffic. Riding a bike in slippery conditions can be safer than walking in the same (when you are young). It was a lot of fun! For snowy conditions, not icy conditions.