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Ed. note: We’ve covered riding in the rain and after hearing from our readers, are gathering Cold Weather Riding tips into a post. Well-timed with this essay Patti Dobrowolski, CAT 4 women’s Development Team Captain (and visualizer), WOW wrote for us. Whether your riding urban, commuting to work, racing, or training, these tips should help.

Baby It’s cold Outside

In the PNW it is finally getting cold out and I always have to remind myself about what’s different when riding in the cold. I came from Colorado where it gets “frickin” cold but it often has a lovely sun in the sky and it is dry, so as long as you have a face mask on, you’re set. Seattle, just slightly cold but really, really wet.

from the 3rd Annual Supermarket Street Sweep.

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Bike Hugger was in Whistler over the weekend relaxing and doing some reconnaissance for Snow Hugger, our sister blog. The season was just getting started, they’d been pumping out snow with their machines (9M gallons), and all the talk was about the new Peak 2 Peak Gondola.

Continuing from Pt1, I want to put a dropbar on an mtb, but one needs a plan to get around the many pitfalls. The first problem is brakes. Since caliper brakes are not an option with an mtb, that leaves cantilevers, v-brakes, or discs.

In the Whistler Village, outside a ski shop …

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