When I bought new rear light to my bike, batteries came with it, some Chinese ones, light was very dim and got very hot, one of the batteries was so hot that plastic on it's surface was melting and I took pliers, took battery out and threw it into snow where it kept hissing for a moment.
I don't know how battery can behave like that, but it was not particularly relaxing event.
Complete opposite was biking when I started, here are some pics from bit over year ago where you can see bit which it is like here during winter, most unsharp one was taken at -25C freehand with 1.6 seconds exposure, so it did not came quite as well as rest, but who knows, maybe someone can find motivation for exercise when seeing such scenery, at least one might feel bit chilly.
Sometimes we get that much snow at once, but it is still perfectly possible to bike trough it as when it is enough cold snow is like dust and weights nothing:
This was one morning, I thought it would be fun to go bicycling even it was -25C
Same trip, but bit earlier, I tried to take pic which shows how much or little I really see. Since that I have upgraded my light to such that even darkest autumn it is easy to ride with it
This is half way up one quite steep hill, even it looks flat there is quite bit of climbing and after that easy section it starts to climb almost straight up or that is how it feels when road goes into forest again, not sure how well this pic works as it is really big one if you click it
This one is taken after climbing quite a bit, there is even more climbing where that farm is
and after passing farm and making it to top of the hill this view is one's reward, until next hill starts.
This kind of hills we have, not mountains but enough to make me tired very fast, especially if I ride this fast or maybe it is slow for athletes, but fast for me
I don't know how battery can behave like that, but it was not particularly relaxing event.
Complete opposite was biking when I started, here are some pics from bit over year ago where you can see bit which it is like here during winter, most unsharp one was taken at -25C freehand with 1.6 seconds exposure, so it did not came quite as well as rest, but who knows, maybe someone can find motivation for exercise when seeing such scenery, at least one might feel bit chilly.
Sometimes we get that much snow at once, but it is still perfectly possible to bike trough it as when it is enough cold snow is like dust and weights nothing:
This was one morning, I thought it would be fun to go bicycling even it was -25C
Same trip, but bit earlier, I tried to take pic which shows how much or little I really see. Since that I have upgraded my light to such that even darkest autumn it is easy to ride with it
This is half way up one quite steep hill, even it looks flat there is quite bit of climbing and after that easy section it starts to climb almost straight up or that is how it feels when road goes into forest again, not sure how well this pic works as it is really big one if you click it
This one is taken after climbing quite a bit, there is even more climbing where that farm is
and after passing farm and making it to top of the hill this view is one's reward, until next hill starts.
This kind of hills we have, not mountains but enough to make me tired very fast, especially if I ride this fast or maybe it is slow for athletes, but fast for me
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