Lobster gloves are pretty good if you get really cold fingers (don't do much for your thumbs though). I only use mine on the really coldest days though because they make you look very odd (not as odd as I'd look with a ginger beard though)
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Commuting
Winter cycling advice
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Practicing skidding on grass may be preferred to tarmac, a softer landing if it all goes a bit pear shaped!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Good point. The meadows is probably an ideal place for it, since it's so badly damaged by extensive commercial use and other sports anyway.
It may interest you to know that I kept a log last winter (or maybe the one before - this forum is a bit generous with time boundaries for old posts) and it was only inclement for 10 commutes out of 132 in Dec/Jan/Feb. That's counting each direction as "1"...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Very important:
Don't drink a litre of chocolate milk just because its use by date is today, thinking it will make wintery wind seem a little less forboding. I just did and my stomach is a little annoyed with me!
Posted 11 years ago # -
I really question the orthodoxy that weight through the outside pedal when cornering = lower centre of gravity. That does not compute for me. Probably other good reasons for it (not least clearance) but CoG arguments I struggle with
Posted 1 year ago # -
I'm not sure if it's been edited but the article now says it keeps the CoG in the right place. Depending on how sharply you are cornering the outside pedal remains over or outside the tyres so keeps more weight pushing down rather than out on the tyres. Of course it isn't necessarily as simple as that as the cornering itself also creates forces on the tyres (otherwise we would fall off every time we turn).
It's nice to see an article which doesn't concentrate on clothing.
Posted 1 year ago #
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