Fat and Snowy Commute

I worked eleven hours, yesterday.  When I left work last night, on the motorbike, it was still 60 degrees F at 5:30 PM.  Overnight, a cold front moved through.  It was 30 degrees and snowing when I left the house, this morning.  I worked almost 12 hours, today, and left the lab at 6:30.

The temperature was 15 degrees.

One thing I noticed, this morning, was that the fat bike needs some fenders, if I'm going to commute with it.

The bag catches a lot of spray from that huge tire, and I don't like that.  At this point, there are no fenders available for these bikes, commercially.  Surly Bikes is making noises about coming out with some, but I may just have to come up with something on my own, in the meantime.  (Notice how the tail light points down toward the rear tire, due to how the bag hangs.)

I stopped on the way home to take this picture.  My phone told me that I couldn't use the flash "due to cold weather".  Good thing I stopped under a light...

Before leaving the lab, I used my big brain to come up with some cutting-edge technology to solve my droopy-light problem.

I had a good ride home.  There was quite a bit of the churned-up snow, which I now refer to as "dry slush", that I usually hate so much.  But, the fat bike rolled right over it.  That makes me even more glad, now, that I pulled the trigger on this bike.  Now, if only one of my friends would come up with one so we could ride together...

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