See also: noise, fuck this

[mousme]

Canceled my car reservation. Am NOT going out to run errands in this weather when I am already exhausted. Errands in good weather while exhausted, sure. Not in this weather.

Am trying to get hold of the cleaning service to cancel the lovely and talented Tabitha. She's marvelous, but it's fit for neither man nor beast out there, so I'm going to give her a snow day, and take the opportunity to sleep. Hell, if it's too last minute I'll still pay for the three hours and call it good.

Right now all I want to do is collapse and die. I can't do that while running errands, or while someone is puttering around here and cleaning.

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[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

I cycled to work today :P

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Good grief! Although your narrower tires probably cut right through the snow. Goodness knows my husband didn't find a single ploughed road on his way to work in the car. (Until he hit the south shore, that is. Their roads were clear. There weren't even piles of snow on the side of the Montreal roads indicating they'd been ploughed earlier.)

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

I have studded snow tyres for the bike, which gives me a good amount of control even through the snow-surf, but I find myself being channelled into ruts a lot and then discovering that my rut is heading-off for a turn I don't want to make and I have to cross the ridges of crap between the ruts, that's when things get a bit wobbly.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I was NOT brave enough to try the bike in the snow this year. I'm going to start up again in the spring, try to stick with it until past the fall, and then get winter tires for the bike and see if that works.

Hats off to you, sir! :)

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

Not stopping in autumn pretty much the trick to winter biking.

After a while you get stubborn enough that new challenges (e.g. ooo, 6 inches of snow fell today and now I have to ride home) actually become fun tests of preparation and stamina and sheer bloody-mindedness.

If you only want to ride when the streets are clear and not through all the snow and slush and shit, then you probably don't need snow tyres at all, especially if you have a mountain bike with those big knobbly tyres.