moonlog

Bike Pittsburgh, based in a city with roughly the same climate as here, suggests some tips for winter biking on the cheap.

That’s handy because the cost of bike commuting has been on my mind lately. Commuting by bike can be pricey — especially in conditions like precipitation, the dark, and the cold. It’s harder to pay for expensive gear that you only use occasionally — we don’t face the rain and the cold as consistently through the winter as other cities. And that $200 lighting setup the cycle commuters are talking about on their listserv might not be in the budget of someone who bikes to work because he really can’t afford to drive.