Mutual support group for bicycling through the winter

[Claire Petersky]

We have started a little mutual support group going on 43things.com
regarding bicycling through the winter. Of course, anyone can get on
http://www.43things.com and pick this as one of their goals. But if you want
to be invited to join our team, please drop me an email, to
[email protected], except put in yahoo for the mousepotato.

To see it so far: http://www.43things.com/things/view/1000427.

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

 

[Fritz M]

Claire Petersky wrote:
> We have started a little mutual support group going on 43things.com
> regarding bicycling through the winter.

There's also the ICEBIKE mailing list, which Joe Clark started sometime
in the early 90s and which is still going strong. It's a great mix of
people who ride for different reasons and with different equipment and
at different budgets and we all pretty much get along.

http://www.icebike.org/

RFM

 

[Brian Huntley]

Fritz M wrote:
>
> http://www.icebike.org/
>

I haven't dropped in for years, but used to be a regular on the mailing
list. It started to repeat itself (unlike, say, rec.bikes.misc) I
suppose.

Lots of good information there, and some really cool (in a good way)
really nutso folks who live and bike year-round in Saskatoon or
Fairbanks. Makes Toronto seem tropical.

 

[greggery peccary]

"Fritz M" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Claire Petersky wrote:
> > We have started a little mutual support group going on 43things.com
> > regarding bicycling through the winter.
>
> There's also the ICEBIKE mailing list, which Joe Clark started sometime
> in the early 90s and which is still going strong. It's a great mix of
> people who ride for different reasons and with different equipment and
> at different budgets and we all pretty much get along.
>
> http://www.icebike.org/
>
> RFM
>

that's a cool site and they inspired me to get some studded tires. alas it
hasn't snowed here since (seattle, same area as Claire).

 

[greggery peccary]

"Claire Petersky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> We have started a little mutual support group going on 43things.com
> regarding bicycling through the winter. Of course, anyone can get on
> http://www.43things.com and pick this as one of their goals. But if you
want
> to be invited to join our team, please drop me an email, to
> [email protected], except put in yahoo for the mousepotato.
>
> To see it so far: http://www.43things.com/things/view/1000427.
>
> --
> Warm Regards,
>
> Claire Petersky
> http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
> See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky
>

i couldnt find it. too much stuff in there! UW did a thing like that last
winter called "ride in the rain" but their server rules were too rigid and i
never got to enter stats and knew no one else to form a team with.
-alan

 

[greggery peccary]

"Claire Petersky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> We have started a little mutual support group going on 43things.com
> regarding bicycling through the winter. Of course, anyone can get on
> http://www.43things.com and pick this as one of their goals. But if you
want
> to be invited to join our team, please drop me an email, to
> [email protected], except put in yahoo for the mousepotato.
>
> To see it so far: http://www.43things.com/things/view/1000427.
>
> --
would this team be an email list?

 

[Claire Petersky]

"greggery peccary" <.@.> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Claire Petersky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> We have started a little mutual support group going on 43things.com
>> regarding bicycling through the winter. Of course, anyone can get on
>> http://www.43things.com and pick this as one of their goals. But if you
> want
>> to be invited to join our team, please drop me an email, to
>> [email protected], except put in yahoo for the mousepotato.
>>
>> To see it so far: http://www.43things.com/things/view/1000427.
>>
>> --
> would this team be an email list?


No. On 43Things, you can do Things individually, or as a team. If you
register for 43Things, you can sign up for Bicycle through the winter as an
individual. If I email you an invitation, though, you can join the team of
four that so far have signed up to do it. There's really not a lot of
benefit of being on a team that I can tell, other than just for the fun of
being on the team.

43Things is more blog-like than an email list. You can post pictures, make
entries, and comment on other people's entries. You can ask for advice.
People who claim that they have accomplished the Thing you set out to do may
provide advice.

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

 

[Dane Buson]

greggery peccary <.@.> wrote:
> "Fritz M" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>
>> There's also the ICEBIKE mailing list, which Joe Clark started sometime
>> in the early 90s and which is still going strong. It's a great mix of
>> people who ride for different reasons and with different equipment and
>> at different budgets and we all pretty much get along.
>>
>> http://www.icebike.org/
>
> that's a cool site and they inspired me to get some studded tires. alas it
> hasn't snowed here since (seattle, same area as Claire).

I've thought about picking some up, but there's only been about one day
in the past five years they would have been actually useful. A couple
days I could have used them, but instead waited two hours for the ice
slicks to melt before leaving for work.

--
Dane Buson - [email protected]
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
-- Winston Churchill