I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 5, 2014 at 10:01am

I planted a boatload in the fall--- I put them extra-deep because of squirrels, but I still fear the extreme cold may have killed most of them off.

Skip Montanaro 12mi said:

I haven't ridden yet this week.

We sold our house and tentatively close on April 1. I fear I will not see our daffodils and tulips come up this spring... :-(

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Permalink Reply by Josh L. on March 5, 2014 at 10:02am

Biked from uptown to lincolns square. Only Wilson and Linkcoln seemed to have been plowed. Was able to bike on side streets by going real snow. Too much snow next to driver side for me to comfortably stay out of car lane. Hopped on brown line to work.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 5, 2014 at 10:03am

It's good interesting to hear that the "important" areas are not getting any better service than my part of town for a change....

Simon Phearson said:

Took the Metra today and was surprised to see the streets downtown (that I would have been riding on had I biked) as bad as they were. They didn't look plowed at all. It looked survivable with a slightly flattened tire, but it would have been a long slog by bike this morning. I'm reasonably confident I'll find it more rideable by tomorrow, though.

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Permalink Reply by T.K. 3.5 mi on March 5, 2014 at 10:07am

I rode and will spare the details.

Thank you to all the drivers. Most everyone was pretty cool today.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on March 5, 2014 at 10:18am

Parts of my commute were grueling. The rest were just laborious.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on March 5, 2014 at 10:20am

I see what you did there.

jolondon30 said:

Was able to bike on side streets by going real snow.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on March 5, 2014 at 11:04am

Yeah, in some ways it's safer to ride in this kinda weather cause the cars are going slower than normal.

Eli said:

Rode a few miles from Lincoln Square to Edgewater. Wasn't as bad as I feared. The snow slows down the drivers.

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on March 5, 2014 at 11:53am

For a 40 second video of this morning's commute, click here.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on March 5, 2014 at 12:48pm

That was not the most fun ride I've ever had.....

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Permalink Reply by Robert Underwood on March 6, 2014 at 9:16am

rode, traffic ok, slight headwind. Yesterday day I slowed down to give space to a guy as he was entering or exiting his car, and the same exact thing happened this morning... same guy, same place. We even looked at each other like, hey, didn't this happen before? He was wearing yellow sweat pants. what can this mean?