Layering for winter cycling in 25-40 degree weather

Layering for winter cycling is critical to staying warm and on the bike. It’s no secret that the key to being fit in the spring is riding through the winter, yet winter riding comes with the significant challenge of staying warm while getting in enough outdoor miles. Layering involves the tricky balance of retaining warmth […]

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Bootie Love, or How to get in and out of shoe covers fast

Spring riding often means rain and cold. Keeping your hands and feet warm is one of the surest ways to help you stay on the bike longer. Enter bootie love. You keep your feet warm with cycling booties (also called shoe covers or overshoes), whose purpose is to hermetically seal your feet from the cold […]

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Winter Bike Commuting: See and be seen!

It’s that time of year where visibility is poor. The days are shorter and darker. Research of Portland bike commuters revealed that traumatic injury rates while bike commuting double during the months of December and January compared to the rest of the year.(1) Take care to ride safe and maximize your visibility to see and […]

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Winter in Seattle is weird. It’s like Kansas weird, but not as extreme. The weather is all over the board, relatively warm in the low 50’s one day, then 37 degrees F the next, or dry as a bone one minute and dumping sheets the next and for eight hours straight, eating up all of […]

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