I’m eating dinner and all of a sudden it really hits me that the riding season is genuinely over for me in the next few weeks.
It’s 0-2 C every morning now and the afternoon it gets up to 9-10. I just got this bike in June. The tires are probably not very good below 6.
How do y’all cope with having to put the bike up for winter? Do you pick up a winter hobby?
Finland here; I used to push the bike season to the max, one year I rode still in the first week of December (nice day for a 130 km trip one way, but the ride back in the dark with icing rain on goggles and nothing to wipe them with was the worst time I ever had on a bike) and started in March (my only time falling on a bike, on black ice)…
Now I’m content bringing my baby inside to the comfort of the house when it first starts pushing toward 0 °C over nights, doing maintenance and maybe putting on a coat of wax. Building up the urge to fly again next spring. To everything there is a season :)
Yes black ice is what I want to avoid which means I have to finish soon. I don’t want the season to end!!!