Milwaukee as well - www.bikewinter.org

Having a semi-regular series of events helps keep people motivated, a sort of check in to give frequent encouragement and stay riding in the face of certain frozen death. The Bike Fed of Wisconsin puts on a "sew to be seen" workshop at the onset of each winter in which reflective material is supplied and participants sew them on their winter cycling gear.

Jim

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Geoffrey B vous.je@gmail.com wrote:

Chicago does winter in a big way, the city offers great resources

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:23 AM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:

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Has anyone ever held a class on winter biking?

We're thinking of offering one, and I'm interested in what other people have done. I've checked out icebike.org a little, and done a little internet research.

I was about to list the topics we're thinking of covering, but I'm interested what other folks thoguht was important.

What were some unexpected responses or questions or things that you hadn't prepared for?

Thanks, everyone.

josh.

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we have our winter biking event posted up at http://troybikerescue.org on the front page.

Ben Hussey wrote:

We do a regular workshop every year here in Anchorage. Usually it runs for an hour or two and we cover the following topics:

-Commercial studded tires -Home-made studded tires -Navigation on dark, snowy streets. -Visibility -Proper layering techniques -Fabric selection -Vapor barriers (for the _really_ cold rides) -Lubricants -Frozen hubs -Bike Storage (how not to have your rims freeze)

Typically it's there are several people presenting on their areas of expertise. Each presentation is short and followed by a q/a session.
At the end we typically offer a time for people to practice studding their own tires; however, we've been moving away from that recently as homemade studded tires tend to be pretty poor quality.

Feel free to ask for any details.

-Ben

-- Off the Chain Bike Collective - your local non-profit bike shop 814 W. Northern Lights Blvd. (West end of the Mat-Maid building) Anchorage, AK 99508 (907) 258-OTCC (6822) www.offthechainak.org

veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:

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Has anyone ever held a class on winter biking?

We're thinking of offering one, and I'm interested in what other people have done. I've checked out icebike.org http://icebike.org a little, and done a little internet research.

I was about to list the topics we're thinking of covering, but I'm interested what other folks thoguht was important.

What were some unexpected responses or questions or things that you hadn't prepared for?

Thanks, everyone.

josh.

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