Whoops. Should’ve checked the heating oil before the snow fell. Womp womp. Hope the hill melts tonight.
I’ve got a Nutcase helmet and ear flaps coming. Been wearing normal MTB-style helmets with various head coverings and hoping the Nutcase will be warmer.
The 5.10 Freerider EPS shoes are giving me all of it. Maybe not the best looking shoes, but comfy down to the high teens with mid-weight wool socks. Flat pedals only, though.
I went mtbing in my 510 freeride canvas shoes in the snow last saturday (wasn’t super cold, maybe 30ish) with a medium wool sock. Feet were toasty, which was a good contrast to the last time I wore them in the summer when my feet were on fire hot.
Came down with a sore throat/hack this week, which unfortunately has meant that i couldn’t htfu for the super cold snowy commutes this week like I had planned to.
[quote=aerobear]I went mtbing in my 510 freeride canvas shoes in the snow last saturday (wasn’t super cold, maybe 30ish) with a medium wool sock. Feet were toasty, which was a good contrast to the last time I wore them in the summer when my feet were on fire hot.
Came down with a sore throat/hack this week, which unfortunately has meant that i couldn’t htfu for the super cold snowy commutes this week like I had planned to.[/quote]
The canvas/leather Freeriders definitely run warm, and the EPS models are even warmer due to the additional insulation and lack of vents in the forefoot.
All the local guys are wearing those 5.10’s, I wish I didn’t already own fatbiking snowboots so I could justify them. They seem like the real deal.
I’m not riding this winter
but I guess now is the appropriate time to recommend my favorite things again
If you need some extreme gear, Trash Bags (trigger warning: website is a blast from the sw8 fixxy past) makes the serious stuff
MUSA
by a guy who has ridden through some cold winters himself
hat, mask, and mittens got me through two Wisconsin winters plenty toasty
do not wear above 10*F
woah they make some extra large bags
this is like that bicyclepube’s drawing of yummygooey’s bike with the massive rando bag:
Seeing pictures of salty streets makes me cringe, they haven’t happened here in Boston yet, but with snow probably coming Sunday its about to be salt town
TC: Seattle’s liberal use of salt/deicer this year is partially the reason I didn’t want to ride during the snow storm today.
Not saying I blame them for taking full advantage of the salt/deicer ban recently being lifted because it gets pretty crazy with the rare snow/ice storms. But damn, I was blown away how much they spread on the main corridors yesterday.
Excited for it to wash away with the next big rain storm.
Bozeman doesn’t seem to plow residential roads, so salt isn’t much of a thing unless you’re on main roads
[quote=Andrew_Squirrel]TC: Seattle’s liberal use of salt/deicer this year is partially the reason I didn’t want to ride during the snow storm today.
Not saying I blame them for taking full advantage of the salt/deicer ban recently being lifted because it gets pretty crazy with the rare snow/ice storms. But damn, I was blown away how much they spread on the main corridors yesterday.
Excited for it to wash away with the next big rain storm.[/quote]
They banned salt in all of VT for environmental reasons and they started using some kind of beet juice concentrate… I wish the rest of New England would switch over.
beet juice??? are the streets red?
[quote=Andrew_Squirrel]TC: Seattle’s liberal use of salt/deicer this year is partially the reason I didn’t want to ride during the snow storm today.
Not saying I blame them for taking full advantage of the salt/deicer ban recently being lifted because it gets pretty crazy with the rare snow/ice storms. But damn, I was blown away how much they spread on the main corridors yesterday.
Excited for it to wash away with the next big rain storm.[/quote]
Dude, it was ridiculous. I had down Greenlake, and at some point, I had to just take the lane because the salt they spread had been pushed into the bike lane until it was a few millimeters deep.
We’re projected to get several inches over the weekend in Madison, and they have been pre-salting with brine solution all day. Interested to see if/how that works and if it’s any better than the saltnado they usually put down during.
Apparently the stuff is called Beet Heet, and apparently VT uses brine instead of salt. I seem to remember a beet solution going into use at my old college, and the sidewalks were definitely pink.
How is brine better than salt? It’s just salt, with some water added.
The combo w/ the beet juice results in massively less salt.
I understand how beet juice might be better than salt, but how is brine better than salt?