Cold Weather Riding

 Today I wanted to link to a few posts about cold weather riding. The seasons are changing, and if what the weather prognosticators are saying comes true, we are in for a few cold wallops and more snow than we've had for a few years. 

I don't know about what it has been like wherever you live, but around here I think we are certainly due for a more Wintry season than we've experienced in a while.

I like riding in Winter, but I do have a few rules. (see THIS POST) There are times it can be fun with the right equipment though, and the link there takes you to an idea which might prove worth looking into for your possible Wintry rides. 

Then there are these odd bits of cycling kit called pogies. They usually have structure and act like fairings for your hands. We have some home-grown pogies from here in Iowa which are a bit different and are easily placed on your bars, or removed.  In this way the Bike Iowa Pogie Lites are different. Other pogies are more or less stuck on the bars for the season.  There are other advantages to Pogie Lites as well. Check out my review HERE. 

You don't really need a specific bicycle to ride in Winter time, but in many places, a fat bike is kind of nice. I wrote a very popular post about the first complete, turnkey fat bike available commercially HERE. There is a bit of backstory there, which you may find enlightening concerning fat bikes. 

Finally, I do a cold weather riding clinic for the Cedar Valley Bicycle Collective from time to time. I took the liberty of posting all my hand-out notes from one of these on this blog. You can read it HERE.  

That is a lot of information to check into, but instead of just regurgitating information, which I've already covered in detail, it made more sense to me to just link pertinent posts here and remind you readers of how there are ways to be successful at riding in Winter.  

Read the comments on those posts as well. there are a few nuggets in them. Otherwise, if you have a tip which you did not see here, please share it with the other readers by posting a comment.