This morning was frosty and 28 degrees.

[TexasProgresive]

I rode fairly slow even though there was no wind my face was very cold, but otherwise all OK. When I got home my feet were chilled- I didn't notice it until I got in the house. Maybe that's because they stopped moving.

So this is the coldest it has gotten here this winter and the coldest I have ridden. I know some of you intrepid winter cyclists would laugh at 28 as being quite balmy, but we've had a high of 82 degrees this week. It makes it tough to get hardened to the cold.

[PoliticAverse]

1. My concern with temperatures like 28 was that they were below freezing...

and possible ice on the road surface was my main concern.

It is certainly true that getting used to the temperature helps. A 50 degree day in summertime feels really
cold, in the dead of winter it feels balmy.

[TexasProgresive]

2. And 82 is sweltering.

I road in shorts and tee shirt-slathered in sun screen. Came home drenched in sweat. Then the highs dropped into the low 50s. Such is life in south central Texas. Soon it will be hotter than Hell.

[olddots]

3. be carefull reaction times are affected by temperature .

plus you create a wind chill factor .Why can't it be 62 degrees everyday with no wind ?

[happyslug]

4. I hate you....

I biked during the heavy snow fall we had, that all melted and then it turned cold. I biked to work, but the chain on my bike broke. I took it to my bike shop to fix and they told me I had somehow stripped the bottom bracket attachment rings in the frame. No one knows how I did it but I needed a new front crank and bottom bracket that fit into such a stripped bottom bracket. Two weeks later the parts finally came in and my bike was ready to be ridden, but in the mean time the cold snap had come and gone.

My Cannondale had my 26 inch studded tires on it. In the cold and ice condition I dare NOT ride my other bike, which only had on slicks.r the cold weather had passed, the bike store told me my bike was fixed. I had to drive to work for over a week till my bike with studs was repaired. By the time that bike was repaired, the snow was gone, the weather was breaking into the 50s so I could use my bike with slicks in addition to by bike with studs. I hate people who could go into the snow when I can not.

Just kidding, but I had to complain about my bike being in the shop.