So commuting out of my town is near impossible, while remaining safe cycling. But I am able to bike around, which I was able to do for 4 hours on the weekend and man, do I miss it.. and man, my legs were burning!
I've been thinking about replacing my current straight handlebar with one that is similar to one that found Stopped by at a local bike shop and picked up some new handlebars, to give me a more of a cruiser feel but I have my eyes on a BMX style handle bar.
It's going to be a pain to try the handle bars out before I go spend some cash on a higher quality handle bar. But after being on the straight bar for 4hrs my wrists started to hurt. My thought is, that with this style of bar, I can move it forward or back, depending on my mood. Aerodynamics is not something I care to much about when my average speed is 22 km
So I finally tried again to bike into work, I modified my face mask so that my mouth could fully breath. I greased up all my gears, etc.. There was no snow and the weather was calling for low -9 and a high of -5, perfect! I started to ride and it was FREEZING. I stopped and looked at my phone again and it said the same thing, expect it was currently -19. Gah. But I still continued to bike to work. I've never heard of any other job, where you can report on things and be wrong 40% of the time and still remain employed. 
And then it snowed. I was plowing through about 2 inches or more at times and this is that slippery stuff. While going straight, I wiped out for no reason at all. Crack goes my side mirror and I think my rear break line snapped. So I give up, there is no safe way for me to get around town as a commuter. Time to review the road and bike again mid February. Until then, I'm driving to work.
