Ok, we got here,
and after one of the worst weeks of snow I have seen, we're gonna be here for a while. I don't care what the sacred groundhog says, I live in Michigan and we will have winter for 6 or more weeks. Now we get to hear all the chatter about how hard it is to dress.
"My winter kit has more layers than a wedding cake." --Bike Push
"In the winter it takes 30 minutes to dress for a 60 minute ride."--some anonymous guy on Facebook.
It's hard to even imagine what they are going through. I don't go on any fitness expeditions in the winter, but I do ride nearly every day for some reason What would normally be a twenty minute ride in city side, can turn into 45 minutes if the streets are in bad shape.
The only extra layer I wear is
long underwear beneath the slacks.
That's it.
When it's time to mount up, I wear a winter jacket and gloves or mittens.
The biggest challenge I face is overheating. It works a little like this; I walk to the garage thinking "I'm out of my f...ing mind!" Three blocks from home, I'm zipping down to get cooled off a bit. In the worst of weather I wear a neck gaiter to pull up over my ears and face a bit. The other day I rode like that INTO an -11 windchill without any discomfort. All you need is enough to protect from the wind and lock the body heat in.
But the rest of the world, sees it like this.
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