I’ve been a year round utility cyclist since the 1980s. Whilst living in Illinois and Colorado, that meant cycling to work in occasionally extreme weather. You just deal with it.
Six years in California, however, has softened me.
Mr Money Mustache retired at age 30 and now blogs about how YOU can escape the perpetual cycle of debt that keeps you enslaved to the one percent.
He’s a Canadian who now lives in Longmont, Colorado, and in his most recent post we discover he and his familiy ride bikes to get around. He also encourages you to bike for transportation, even in the winter.
Failblog’s “There I Fixed It provides inspiration for cheap, DIY bike pogies for cold weather riding.
Joe Steinlauf demonstrates his spiked icebike tires in Chicago, 1948.