Carbon Trace » weather http://isocrates.us/bike Getting Around on Two Wheels and Two Feet Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:23:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2008-2009 acline@isocrates.us (Andrew R. Cline, Ph.D.) acline@isocrates.us (Andrew R. Cline, Ph.D.) 1440 http://isocrates.us/bike/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Carbon Trace http://isocrates.us/bike 144 144 Getting Around on Two Wheels and Two Feet Andrew R. Cline, Ph.D. Andrew R. Cline, Ph.D. acline@isocrates.us no no Let’s Be Careful Out There http://isocrates.us/bike/2011/11/lets-be-careful-out-there/ http://isocrates.us/bike/2011/11/lets-be-careful-out-there/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:38:17 +0000 Andy Cline http://isocrates.us/bike/?p=5083 Pretty…

…but dangerous. These suckers are slippery when wet and piled up on the road. Let’s be careful out there today.

The Weather Channel iPhone app let me down. It said no rain. I wore my raincoat anyway, but I left my rain pants at home. Halfway downtown this morning the light mist turned into rain. Hmmmmm… Shouldn’t let apps do my thinking for me.

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It’s hot now.

Can’t let that stop you from cycling.

OK, so when it’s really hot you’re going to sweat doing just about anything — that includes walking to your car and waiting for the air conditioner to kick in.

But I have always maintained, and still do, that it is not at all necessary to sweat (much) riding a bicycle. I’m not going to claim I didn’t sweat today. I’m claiming — with a straight face and in all seriousness — that I did not sweat much. Two things make that possible. First, good equipment. Take a look.

Do you see the equipment?

Or, rather: How do you like my cool bicycling shirt? It’s actually a regular cotton shirt. Cotton and that nylon made to look/feel like cotton are great choices for riding in hot weather because these fabrics keep you cooler, which then leads to the cool kind of cool :-) The real plus is these fabrics are used to make regular clothes, which double as my cycling clothes because I do not own, nor do I wish to wear, “real” cycling clothes.

The other key to cool: Slow down. It ain’t a race out there (unless of course you are racing in which case sweat is cool).

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It would be good if the mayor or a city councilman could make a statement about this — asking citizens to shovel the walks. The weather is going to get colder. More snow is expected. This stuff isn’t melting anytime soon.

How long do Springfield’s pedestrians have to wait?

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That’s what I’m talkin’ about.

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On my walk to work this morning I noticed how many paths had been beaten into the snow creating something like a transportation network for people able-bodied enough to walk on ice and snow.

The footprints and the number of paths tell a story: A lot of people walk hereabouts, and they will walk despite the hostile conditions.

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