Hi All - I've loved following your conversation. I loved the video of your ride you posted
@Brambor . I lived in NJ and CT and bicycle commuted through the winter in my teens and 20s, and seeing the early spring scenes and bare trees in your recording brought back great memories. Thanks for that!
I'm a long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area now, and commute about 12 miles / day mostly on paved bike paths alongside the Bay. Also beautiful but very different. Here we, um, practically don't have bad weather. Or to be more accurate - even when we're not in a critical drought like now, the big storms that blast in from the Pacific are limited to the winter rainy season, and so well forecast that you can set your watch by them, or by the forecasts at least. We also have few deciduous trees, at least where I live. And of course the "low" temps in winter are in the 50s, or on dreadfully cold days, 40s.
Very different than the East Coast.
I haven't driven to work since I bought an IZIP E3 Dash in April, though I usually work from home 2 days a week. It's so much fun to be back on a bike, and I'm loving the scenery and exercise.
I test-rode a number of bikes and ultimately it was down to two, a nice Stromer and the E3 Dash. I liked the computer and motor control of the Dash much more than the Stromer, which was a surprise since the reviews on the Stromer are so good.
That's probably enough from me... I don't have pictures from my ride, so here's a grab of my route into work.
