Bike Jam 3 is on! The Office of Sustainability at UCCS is hosting the latest Bike Month Challenge. At the end of the month, we'll calculate the amount of carbon saved by the bike riding. To sign up for the challenge, use this link: http://bikejam3.eventbrite.com
So, I have signed up, filled up my bike tires, and am making the not very arduous 1.2 mile trek to campus as much as possible. My time spent on the bike today: 8 minutes and I do not have to deal with parking issues on campus. I will also be using my bike to ride to the local grocery store (0.8 miles).
I'm fortunate in that I live so close to the UCCS campus and that I do not have to ride my bicycle on any major roads. In fact, the neighborhood street that I use has a very large bicycle lane and very little traffic. There is also a change on campus as well in that many of the surface streets now have designated bicyclist symbols painted onto the road.
This all sounds fine and good, but it could be difficult riding my road bike when it starts snowing, to say nothing of the wind chill that I may be experiencing. Can you put snow tires on road bikes?
