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- Cold-weather_biking abstract "Cold-weather biking (also referred to as winter cycling, winter biking, snowbiking, or icebiking) is the activity of cycling in winter weather with snow, ice, and slush. As in warm months, people bike in cold weather for several reasons. Bike commuters may cycle to work for exercise, to reduce their carbon footprint, or to save on the costs of public transport, parking, amortized car purchase (by making less frequent), car maintenance, insurance, and fuel. Recreational snow or ice-bikers include off-road bikers who ride on snowmobile trails with underinflated, fat tires and ice-bikers who use frozen streams, ponds, or rivers, or who race on iced-over lakes.Winter roads may have less space for cars and bicycles to share, when snowbanks are lining the roadsides. To maintain control of a bike on icy roads, cyclists need a different riding style than they would use in summer. Bikers tend to ride more slowly and cautiously, be more upright on turns, and avoid using the front brake on icy roads, because front braking can lead to skidding and crashing in those conditions.Cold-weather bikers usually wear several layers of protective clothing to keep warm, including insulating layers such as merino wool and wind- and water-resistant outer shell layers. Protecting the extremities (feet and hands) from the potentially frostbite-causing effects of subzero windchill is a particular challenge, as is keeping wind off the face.Some cold-weather bikers use special bike gear to deal with the inclement weather, such as metal-studded tires to improve traction on ice, enclosed chain cases and internal hub gears to shield the drive train from ice, and hub brakes or enclosed drum brakes, which can operate even when the wheel rims are caked in ice. Bikers may have to clean caked-on ice and snow from brake pads, rims, and derailleur cassettes during and after a ride, to remove corrosive road salt and metal-wearing grit and sand from chains and derailleurs.".
- Cold-weather_biking thumbnail Commuting_Icebike.jpg?width=300.
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageExternalLink ~winterbiker.
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageExternalLink ice-biking.
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageExternalLink winter.html.
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageExternalLink www.bikewinter.org.
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageExternalLink wintertips.htm.
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageExternalLink www.icebike.com.
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageID "7142912".
- Cold-weather_biking wikiPageRevisionID "604456805".
- Cold-weather_biking hasPhotoCollection Cold-weather_biking.
- Cold-weather_biking subject Category:Cycling.
- Cold-weather_biking subject Category:Winter_sports.
- Cold-weather_biking type Abstraction100002137.
- Cold-weather_biking type Act100030358.
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- Cold-weather_biking type Diversion100426928.
- Cold-weather_biking type Event100029378.
- Cold-weather_biking type PsychologicalFeature100023100.
- Cold-weather_biking type Sport100523513.
- Cold-weather_biking type WinterSports.
- Cold-weather_biking type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Cold-weather_biking comment "Cold-weather biking (also referred to as winter cycling, winter biking, snowbiking, or icebiking) is the activity of cycling in winter weather with snow, ice, and slush. As in warm months, people bike in cold weather for several reasons. Bike commuters may cycle to work for exercise, to reduce their carbon footprint, or to save on the costs of public transport, parking, amortized car purchase (by making less frequent), car maintenance, insurance, and fuel.".
- Cold-weather_biking label "Cold-weather biking".
- Cold-weather_biking label "Cyclisme hivernal".
- Cold-weather_biking label "Езда по снегу (велосипед)".
- Cold-weather_biking sameAs Cyclisme_hivernal.
- Cold-weather_biking sameAs m.0h6hrp.
- Cold-weather_biking sameAs Q2032216.
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- Cold-weather_biking sameAs Cold-weather_biking.
- Cold-weather_biking wasDerivedFrom Cold-weather_biking?oldid=604456805.
- Cold-weather_biking depiction Commuting_Icebike.jpg.
- Cold-weather_biking isPrimaryTopicOf Cold-weather_biking.