Over the last few weeks the winter weather has defeated our attempts to escape the city limits. We tried valiantly this weekend, but with the temperatures topping out at -30 C and our rental car doing doughnuts at the sight of corners, we gave up. So with the thought of spending another weekend indoors being too much to handle I decided to be brave (stupid) and go for a bike ride. Thankfully, due to fitting studded tyres, my bike handles the ice and snow better than most American built cars and for some reason I seemed to have the entire bike path system all to myself.
A steaming Bow River with Calgary CBD in the background.
Winter clothing from the serial killer fashion line.
2 comments:
It is strange that the cunucks don't do what the Norwegians do and fit tyres with spikes on them to the cars for the winter months.
You can get studded tires but they chew up the road and are also quite expensive. Most people use winter tires which have a much softer rubber and still grip pretty well. Unfortunately rental car companies dont fit their cars with winter tires which sucks for us.
However, we are currently looking at getting a Subaru Impreza so winter driving shouldn't be a problem for much longer.
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