Coldest temperature you rode in was?????
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Johnny Utah
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Single digits in skateboard shoes back in the day for like six hours. I had my wife take my one sock off because I could not feel my foot anymore and I thought my big toe and the one next to it were frozen together. I bought real winter shoes after that. Not very smart on my part.
walter
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I cant find the group pic. The amount of people that turned around though......
So cold my carbon seat post broke......
iman29
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I have done some stupid road rides in single digits. For the last 2 winters I have also done a winter solstice century ride the start temp last December was around 15-17F at 745am and we finished around 3:30-4pm I think it was heading back down below 30s. Avg temp was around 25 according to garmin.
I ride all year round on the road and with the right layers and gear I can tolerate about 2 hours or so if there’s sun and no wind.
I find that riding steady and trying to avoid too much climbing it’s much more manageable the downhills are painful if you get too sweaty.
I ride all year round on the road and with the right layers and gear I can tolerate about 2 hours or so if there’s sun and no wind.
I find that riding steady and trying to avoid too much climbing it’s much more manageable the downhills are painful if you get too sweaty.
The Kalmyk
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I need that photo of you pushin the Salsa El mariachi through 3 feet of snow with that big jacket😂😂
15 years later... Wth😳😳
walter
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Hang tight.......
GSTim
Formerly M3Tim
I might have been on that ride. If not it was another freezing cold day at 6-Miles.
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JDurk
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Pretty sure this was the coldest ride day. NYD '18 it was 12deg and the trails were dusty. Post ride beers were almost too cold.
walter
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walter
Fourth Party
Yes, you were certainly there
The Kalmyk
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Love it😂😂
Fully rigid 2.1’s pumped to 30psi!!! Post Rocky Mountain Dustin!! Lesss gooo
Gears doe 🤦🏼♂️
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The Kalmyk
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I think mine was 8* up at Lake Placid.
Almost certain one of the BIYFs was to blame
I had to get hot tea water from the hotel to unfreeze the lock on the roof rack,
and picked up a can of lock de-icer in town for post-ride.
Only got cold feet when I stopped to take pics.
Almost certain one of the BIYFs was to blame
I had to get hot tea water from the hotel to unfreeze the lock on the roof rack,
and picked up a can of lock de-icer in town for post-ride.
Only got cold feet when I stopped to take pics.
Yeah, that was the 6 degrees at 6 Mile ride...pre 2010?
I had posted up that I'd never been to 6 mile, Jdog responded with an offer to give a tour...the rest is history.
I'm not sure where the photo is of us standing along post and rail fence near parking lot. It was a pretty big group and that was only half, the other half turned around 20 minutes into the ride because they were too cold.
THATmanMANNY
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walter
Fourth Party
I tried to find it and I can't believe how many cat memes, food pics and pin up chicks I have in my folders
GSTim
Formerly M3Tim
Have those posts on ice until the upgrade
Karate Monkey
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Worst one in recent memory was 14 degrees. It was prime conditions for ice, so I pulled the bike out with studded tires, headed out at Allaire, and noticed after ~.5mile that the freewheeling was lazy. I pressed on--because it's not like you coast at Allaire that much--until the ~2mile mark. Going down the hill behind the care center, headed to the park proper, I got kicked forward by the pedals.
As a consummate fixed gear rider, brain just went along with it , so I didn't crash, but once I stopped, I realized that the freehub was no longer working properly. I could, with great force, turn the pedals backwards, and it would drive forwards, but I realized that something was really wrong. Not wanting to get stuck out in the (rapidly dropping) temperature, I booked back to the car.
As it turns out, the oil that I'[shouldn't]d lubed the freehub with froze, and the unexpected resistance detonated most of the parts of the drive mechanism...but the drive plates still hit, so I managed to self rescue. It would've been a really freaking cold mile back to the car.
Absolute coldest was years ago in Trenton, probably around that by a few degrees. Like @Fire Lord Jim I decided that it wasn't "fun". I have better gear now, though.
As a consummate fixed gear rider, brain just went along with it , so I didn't crash, but once I stopped, I realized that the freehub was no longer working properly. I could, with great force, turn the pedals backwards, and it would drive forwards, but I realized that something was really wrong. Not wanting to get stuck out in the (rapidly dropping) temperature, I booked back to the car.
As it turns out, the oil that I'[shouldn't]d lubed the freehub with froze, and the unexpected resistance detonated most of the parts of the drive mechanism...but the drive plates still hit, so I managed to self rescue. It would've been a really freaking cold mile back to the car.
Absolute coldest was years ago in Trenton, probably around that by a few degrees. Like @Fire Lord Jim I decided that it wasn't "fun". I have better gear now, though.