Went out for a bike ride yesterday in -6C temperatures. I thought I was prepared for everything: windproof jacket, wind goggles, scarf, ski gloves, heating pad. But I was still too young. It was too damn cold.
Lesson learnt: don't ride in sub-zero temperatures. Just stay in door and keep warm.
The main road is not that bad. Thanks to cars, the temperature is slighty warmer so I can ride. But then I turn into a side road and the temperature dropped immediately and the wind feels like knife, hurting my face.
The glasses are also an issue. If I ware wind goggles, then when I stop, the steam built up to my inner glasses. The fog will disappear when I start moving but blur sight is not good for my health when acrossing busy acrosses. I then tried taking off the wind goggle, the fog stop accumulating on the inner glassed, but then the wind makes my eyes shed tears and it's freezing cold! Can't open my eyes when the wind is blowing.
For anyone who want to challenge, unless you have serious gears, like professional wind goggles (not like my 3M protection goggles, which can't work properly with my normal glasses) and colthes, I highly recommend you ride in door.