Pro-Tip Ditch the chemical warmers and get yourself a pair of heated socks! Can last 6 hours or more depending how you set them. Keep your toes nice and warm. Rode over a 100 miles last weekend with temps in the teens and feet were warm the entire ride. Paid $80 bucks for mine and can recharge the batteries after each ride.

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Pro tip: listen to anyone who's last name is Watts.

I've been riding at 20*F through snow with a road bike, maybe I'm doing it wrong lol! Tip for people like me, living the college life, who don't have a ton of money to shell out on dedicated gear - wear socks, wrap two plastic bags around each foot, and then a warm woolen sock over this. Then put your shoes on and some kind of wind/water resistant shoe cover. Works surprisingly well!

This is the riding for at least 6 months out of the year up here in Fairbanks AK. 45nrth boots, special poagies, nose hats, and frame bags are all pretty necessary. -20f is the normal temp we do our winter shop rides at.

Putting a toe warmer on top of shoes is the best advice!

I find that if I am not a bit chilly at my core for the first 15 minutes or so of a winter ride, I am overdressed.

Great tips. Winter shoes, toe and hand warmers and the thermal bottle are all things I use here in Connecticut. Rode 3 hours in 20 degrees last weekend. Heading to Vermont next weekend to hopefully do some fat biking.

Great stuff…‘ Ted in the kitchen’ is a whole new direction. Love the Hazel cameo.

Awesome! Thanks for all the ideas/info. Amazon will be happy with me, my wife, not so much but hey, at least I'll be a bit more comfortable. Always enjoy your videos brother Ted! We moved to Minnesota from Jersey in '19 this past Monday temps reached 18 below, 25 below with wind chill. look forward to trying the bar mitts and the salted cocoa/maple syrup! Cheers from Minnesota A?!

Being in Minnesota I agree with all the suggestions. I've been known to use a wind pant when it's really cold. Also I use Warm Skin or Dermatone on exposed skin when below zero.

Great info Ted! Thanks! Revelate Designs frame bags are an excellent addition. Head up here to AK for some amazing trails 😊

Great video. I liked your suggestions for body fuel. When I ride I like to wear Sorel boots. I also leave my face a little more exposed and use beeswax SPF for protection. When I’m done I use a pump sprayer to clean my bike. Keep up the good work.

While I enjoy all of your videos this one made my heart really happy - I lived in Upstate NY for 11 years and didn't know most this and suffered for it. Also we didn't have untapped back then :)

Thanks for the tips. They help.

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

I got wool insoles to place in my cycling shoes so far the they keep the bottoms of my feet warm. With a -4f windchill every little bit helps.

I've probably watched over a dozen winter riding kit videos and as a Canadian this is the first that actually provided helpful info for my conditions. I've seen many (Europe focused) where they are talking about getting ready for winter conditions and its 5-10 celsius still, they aren't even wearing gloves, let a lone needing Pogies. I have some of the dual position bar mitts for my winter road bike that I am really liking. Thinking about picking up that Bar mitt water bottle insulator or a couple of them, my biggest issue is even when its not that cold the top of the bottle freezes up around the lid so you can't get anything out even before your contents turn to slush. Have been able to get by without heated socks of toe/hand warmers so far but it generally doesn't fall below -15 celsius (maybe -20 to -25 with windchill) where I am so winter shoes and socks seem to be enough.

@davismadison2

2 жыл бұрын

Try a bar bag for that bottle and put in upside down. Or even just put upside down in your cage if you can.

Everything will determine everything

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Wise words, eh?

@addingonbird1

2 жыл бұрын

@@TedKing1 it's true bc it's true

Last tip, Don't let Hazel get bored doing multipul takes, She'll just go all 'Cute' on you & steal the scene once again : )

Some extra tips from a fellow New Englander: Slip the chemical warmer under the top of your toe cover then put shoe cover over (gets just enough air to keep going). Tape up holes in road shoe soles. Windstopper base layers work wonders. Heated socks and gloves (got mine from Ororo) are saviors. Thick/insulated wraparound Velcro bandana stops glasses from fogging and covers exposed skin. Winter aeroshell helmet cover on my Lazer keeps out the wind. Phones lose battery charge faster in cold so I put mine in an interior rear pocket. Double balaclava as needed. Ski goggles instead of glasses. Anyone can Zwift inside. Hardmen (like Ted) ride all year.

The beard is awesome! Keep it!

grande Ted dall'Italia.

Thank God for this video... It's a chilly 50F today in southern California!

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Yikes! Bundle up.

@AyahuascaSage

2 жыл бұрын

Lol... I have a friend in NorCal and I get so triggered looking at your weather in CA sometimes. Did a 100 minute ride in sub-freezing temperatures the other day ☃️

@TrentSiggard

2 жыл бұрын

@@AyahuascaSage On the real... it's slightly cold. I did buy some cold weather kit and I'm amazing how much it helps! + it feels like you're in a warm cocoon, so I actually enjoy riding in cold. :)

I used bar mitts when I had a commute here in the PNW. Never gets colder than -10 *C here and I found all I needed was a basic full finger glove. Above 0*C (with pouring rain) I found that even a bare hand in the pogie was sometimes too warm. I've yet to use pogies on drop bars though.

Thanks. I typically ride down to 20f. Your tipps might expand that somewhat.

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

You bet! I think they'll help.

Just completed my winter kit so lots of these tips are very helpful! Gotta get out there and grind to prepare for unbound!

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

They should host a January Unbound.

that is a 500.00pair of boots! oh yeah : he is sponsored by them! Myself (3 solo winter trips across the U.S. and 40 years more worth of bike adventures) I buy used bike shoes online 3 euro sizes up and put a liner sock and a fat wool hiking knee sock over that. bread bag in between for the worst days. leave shoes a bit loose .Thermal cycling bootie over the shoes. Bread bag ( or other waterproof bag) over shoes on cold wet days. I am a coldie but this combo has never failed in any cold. Put shoes against heat vent while dressing and the warmth will be trapped by the booties. Axiom ; Clothes do not create warmth they simply hold it in. Get fully dressed, prepare bike and ride fuel then add hot shoes and hit the road immediately. Be uncomfortably hot in the indoors before you leave so no cold-ass-warm-up time.

@JosephViger

2 жыл бұрын

But if you would have got the damn $500 boots 40 years ago, that’s only $12.50/yr! You’re worth it!!

Hello Hazel!!!!

Great video, very helpful! Where did you get your balaclava?

I live in Colorado, and use put the chemical warmers on the inside of my cleats, ski boots, etc, and they work fine. Its not a vacuum. Good tips though.

Reynaud's is what I get when it's cold here unfortunately, and I struggle with fingers and toes once the temperature dips. In eastern England (flat fenlands) it's the windchill that is the worst thing as it only gets down to minus 5-8 degrees C on the coldest days but, in the UK, it's mostly a damp cold, which ain't nice at all for someone of 58 years old !!!. I use the chemical heat pads in my gloves and winter spd boots and some of the time it works......I do like to wear the running type baselayers with the hole for your thumbs which helps with cold wrists....and any of my winter jacket arms have to be able to sit snug over gloves..... I honestly don't know how the heck I'd get on in New England though.....I'd possibly look like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining !!!! Great video yet again.....and I'm seriously considering the merits of maple syrup.....Hmmm ?

@billwelsh7489

2 жыл бұрын

Damp cold seems worse to me than dry cold! I've been in the UK in winter!

Road outside in winter for 20 years in Canada now i cross country ski instead. No trouble staying warm don't have to wear 10 layers.

@billwelsh7489

2 жыл бұрын

I'm the opposite. I used to X-country ski, now fat bike in winter. Both get you sweaty!

I like the cut of that balaklav's jib... What brand is that?

tell me about it. it's freezing today in new england.

Everytime you hear the *Ting* Take a shot 😆😆

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Very good game!

I bought the Zero Velocio tights for this kind of weather, they werent that warm at 12 degrees. Do you layer up even more in that temp?

Gonna grow out my beard and locks too 😝

Maybe goggles instead of glasses or nah? I haven't made the move to fatbiking yet but definitely feeling the New England cols when I go XC skiing... No pogies for skiers...

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Only on that James Bay Descent have I wanted goggles. I rode the other day and it was a sunny -3 and glasses are still fine.

Nice tips a tricks, I’ll have to try that drink it sounds delicious! I was trying to find a nice way to clean my bike and that electric pressure washer looks really nice, what is it?

@oldanslo

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a Ryobi cordless power cleaner.

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Ryobi but truth be told, a hose is fine too.

@sseremeth

2 жыл бұрын

@@TedKing1 If you have hot water running through it, otherwise you need inside hose storage or to drain the hose completely, etc. etc. That Ryobi is _slick_! Great video, Ted.

So curious about the Untapped stuff, but probably not available in the Netherlands unfortunately...

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

We ship everywhere in the world. Buyer pays shipping and duties on international orders, but check it out: www.untapped.cc

@marcokalle2452

2 жыл бұрын

@@TedKing1 thanks for the reply, I will have a look 😎

15:14 weird visual where the chainring looks completely still. I wonder if this is a rolling shuttled effect or possible an artifact of image stabilization from the camera?

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

New proprietary frozen chainring. Oooor my guess is shutter speed.

Hi. Can I ask what the make of your balaclava is? Thx 😊

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

That's by Buff.

What are Ted's favorite trails to ride in VT (or NH) in the winter?

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good follow up video... For the quick answer, I rarely go out and do an adventure, so we have the Richmond Trails right out the door here in Vermont. I ride those often. Saxon is up the road, nordic ski at Sleepy Hollow, it's all close by.

@kevinmurray9935

2 жыл бұрын

@@TedKing1 It's like you read my mind or somehow knew I was eluding to a follow up video! Thanks for the trail tip as I'll head up there and check em' out. Maybe I'll see Ted out there, he seems like a cool dude!

ding!

I can not imagine needing to put boiling water in my bottle. How do you know when its cool enough to drink without scolding your throat?

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

My simplest technique here is hit boil on the pot, go do whatever else I need to do, come back to the kitchen and put about 2/3 boiling water in plus 1/3 tap water plus UnTapped. That cools it off and is ready to drink warm water.

yikes!...brrrr isn't just too cold to go out riding sometimes?! ;- )

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Since I've ridden and stayed warm in -40 degrees, mehh, not necessarily. But if it's slick and wet and sloppy and windy, then sure. So by pure weather, "too cold" doesn't really apply. More of a mental space: are you in an in mood or out mood on any winter day.

Go super nerd and add a helmet rain cover!

TIP #43: just move to California. Actually, it's too crowded here already.

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Precisely. Too expensive, too much traffic, too many wild fires, too many mudslides, too many earthquakes, too many people.

@ultimatist

2 жыл бұрын

@@TedKing1 was looking at buying a small cabin in Tahoe last year, and watching with fascination as prices were quickly growing-in the middle of a catastrophic wildfire, with 500AQI smokeouts. Oh well, maybe in 2050, Vermont will have palm trees.

Lol ... herb in the snack box?

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Good eye ;)

Tip #1. Go skiing instead. Cross country ski.

@TedKing1

2 жыл бұрын

Easier said than done when recovering from a shattered elbow.

@MattGrovesFTW

2 жыл бұрын

@@TedKing1 Ok. The rest of your audience though.

@goldenretriever6261

2 жыл бұрын

Best advice! You have 8-9 months to ride the bike, winter is for skiing.

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