Bike Courier in the winter

[edviperrrr]

I ride my bike here in Brazil. It´s warm most part of the year,

so our winter goes only to 50 F or 10 C.

So, I´d like to see how people do on cold weather such in Canada or Russia.

I was in doubt if bike messengers could work full time on winter too.

[stcywll]

@edviperrrr You dont sweat in the winter..so sometimes its better. But the feet always cold, I just ride untill they go numb and then cant feel them anymore.

[brainstorrming]

Озадачен. Странно, сколько езжу - сбивали сбоку, сбивали сзади, хотя чаще всего пересекают и-или останавливаются на пути чаще всего, но ни разу, НИ РАЗУ никто не распахивал двери передо мной. Это что - наверно, чисто канадская специфика?

By the way, working bike courier in russia. Last 5 years nobody not open the doors on the way. (may be today?) Slightly surprised, what that especially of canada?

[v35k037V]

If you like testing your body and putting it to the test...being a bike courier is the best

new bike courier theme song ?

[foreignpress1]

I'd never ride a bike with drop bars and 700c tires in the snow. Bars need to be straight with deep tread tires that are studded. That aside -- she's HOT!

[Kiddowesth]

at first I thought she seemed like a smart person, but then she mentions she smokes and drinks coffee. Why be so stupid ?

[sphinxrising58]

I have ride until I was completely numb, then rode some more, & unlike messengers, I did not whine about how hard it was, what a drama queen, snickers

[colin340]

@sphinxrising58 did u just whine?

[sphinxrising58]

@colin340 Hardly, I will let people who claim to be messengers do that, they seem pretty good at it, aww poor babies, lol

[sphinxrising58]

OMG, you are riding a bike, not going on a polar expedition, lol

Jeans, a t-shirt, & a heavy jacket is all you need FFS, lol

Bike Messengers are so dramatic, hyping what they do like they invented cycling, lol

[wednos]

@sphinxrising58

jeans make you colder as they are made out of cotten and that sucks the heat away from your body, same with a t-shirt. Have you ever been in very cold weather?? A jacket just wont do, exspecially when your speeding with the wind and snow in your face and on your body.... you do need all that stuff. Also bike messenging requires tons of skill and bike messangers should be proud they can do it. I mean i dout lance armstrong could even be a bike messanger

[sphinxrising58]

@wednos You're talking out of your ass, and if you cannot handle riding in jeans and a jacket in really cold weather, then your ass does not belong on a bike, man up and stop whining like some sissy oy FFS

[sphinxrising58]

@wednos Oh by, must be really hard riding a bike all day long, laughs.

A. It's not rocket science, & B, kids do it every day, some even in winter, just for kicks.

[SebastianDudesTipleS]

@wednos i saw a video of lance biking with messengers on a fixie i know shocking but he has the leggs =P

[ideasoner]

ok in that weither id put some brakes on dam!

[iempoor]

Fixed gear bicycles have brakes. They're called yours legs.

[ideasoner]

ye no shit but, look at that weather...iceyyyy!, i would atleest have a front brake incase...

[iempoor]

Front braking on icy sufaces? No thanks!

[ideasoner]

dam youtube smar arses, front brake for front wheel, legs for rear wheel =2 brakes!

[jasquer]

@iempoor why, exactly!

[jasquer]

@ideasoner Quite the contrary for me. I'd never ride brakeless when it's dry, but on the snowy, icy streets, I find brakes to be dangerous and unnecessary (on a fixie, that is; and riding freewheeled in the winter scares me).

[ideasoner]

@jasquer i gess if you have the controll to slow your speed with just your legs its safer becouse brakes go shitty in the wet...

but for me i just stick the grippiest bmx pads on my bike, squeek like mad but i stop

[gcw2007]

I used to ride for C&C, cool video

[godsbassist]

Centigrade and Fahrenheit meet at -40, so -35 is going to be really close whichever scale you use.

[keyeeks]

canada uses metric so celsius .... COLD!

[oranckay]

Love the Ontario accent, dear. Words like "pro(e)cess."

[elilichtenberg]

centigrade or fahrenheit?