Your favourite season?

Belv
Belv Posts: 866
edited November 2007 in Commuting chat
Summer commuting - Less clothing means a faster journey. Don't feel the need to dress up like a christmas tree in order to be seen. Take more scenic routes.

Winter commuting - Dressing up for the 'mini-adventure' that bad weather can provide - I can wear a balaclava or similar over my face, like a superhero! I am tough and impervious to cold! Being thought of as mad for cycling in ice and/or snow.

Overall i think i prefer summer (it's the speed thing) but there is a perverse, masochistic, pleasure to winter commuting that i wouldn't want to miss out on either!

What do you like about the different seasons?

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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    I like garlic, its my favourite season(ing)
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  • PhilTheFish
    PhilTheFish Posts: 82
    Garlic is not a seasoning........
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    PhilTheFish wrote:
    Garlic is not a seasoning........

    I use it to season my food don't I?
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Pepper

    OR

    Non-sweaty seasons...which is any of them in this country so far this year, but I'll go for a nice, crisp autumn, clear, but cold. Easy to dress for if a little dark. And not too sweaty, even for Captain Perspiration.
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  • Teuchter
    Teuchter Posts: 102
    Belv wrote:
    Summer commuting - Less clothing means a faster journey.
    Recorded my fastest time into work this morning thanks to the gale force wind that for a change was behind me. :D

    So... winter gets my vote! (at least until I have to face that same wind head on tonight :cry: )
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    ALL OF THEM!

    Love the summer for the long days.

    Love the autumn for the leaves and the colour of the trees and my FAVOURITE type of cycling weather (well, weather generally) is a clear crisp autumn day.

    Love the winter for the instant wake up when you get outside and the ready brek glow you get around you after 10 minutes.

    Love the spring for the warm rain.

    I'd die of boredom if I lived somewhere that didn't heve seasons.
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Teuchter wrote:
    So... winter gets my vote! (at least until I have to face that same wind head on tonight :cry: )

    Er, its Autumn at the moment...
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  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    Spring I think, or early Autumn.
  • Teuchter
    Teuchter Posts: 102
    prj45 wrote:
    Teuchter wrote:
    So... winter gets my vote! (at least until I have to face that same wind head on tonight :cry: )

    Er, its Autumn at the moment...
    You're joking... you mean it's going to get even colder AND darker yet? :shock:
  • DavidTQ
    DavidTQ Posts: 943
    first year of commuting so far done spring summer and early autumn, Autumns probably my favourite sofar as its been the driest :lol:
  • El Capitano
    El Capitano Posts: 6,400
    My favourite time of year for riding, rather than a season, would be from Mid Jan to March, when the nights are slowly getting shorter and the weather is getting warmer.

    Can't beat a good summer's day commute though, but then, I'd rather actually be out riding somewhere 'nice' that to the office!
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  • chrisjsmith
    chrisjsmith Posts: 280
    The ones without leaves everywhere!

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