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‪It is rather beautiful here in Oulu 🇫🇮, right now. Absolutely no filters needed at all 🤌
-20°C, wind chill -28°C.

This is one of our main cycling and walking routes (#8) and here we have a 5 km stretch with ZERO at-grade crossings with motor traffic. I repeat, it's physically impossible to meet any motor traffic here. So it is very peaceful, safe and comfortable to ride and walk completely uninterrupted. Just bliss.

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I was just using simple cheap lobster type gloves/mitts. These are pretty beaten already 😅 Cannot really recommend this brand, but I like these 2+2+1 style lobsters in general for winter stuf.
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#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Through a series of simple changes, the city of Oulu, bordering Lapland, encourages its residents to cycle through the long, dark, snowy winter. What can other cities learn from the pioneer of winter cycling?

It's a crisp winter morning in the Finnish coastal city of Oulu, the fourth most northerly city in the world, just 100km (60 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.

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Last night there was a snowstorm and today the temperature hovers around -5C (23F), but that is not deterring the city's hardy cyclists. Everywhere you go, people of all ages flurry by over the fresh snow, wrapped in winter clothes and seemingly enjoying the brief pale sunshine and bitingly cold air.

Oulu, which proudly calls itself "the winter cycling capital of the world" is blanketed in snow for five months of the year.

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@inVinnieVeritas It's absolutely magically wonderful! And I'm sure you know _snow_ isn't really slippery. Especially cold snow isn't. Ice and wet ice are. And we've got great maintenance here, so basically you could even ride this with slick racing tires 👌 It also makes a huge difference as we don't allow cars on the same surface to destroy the grip and polish the snow into slippery ice.
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Tried to navigate that frozen glaze on my bike last time it snowed here in Brussels going back home from work.

Slipped and fell 3 times before walking next to the bike 😅 Took this picture to remember what caused all those falls.

From memory nobody biked on the other side of the Atlantic back in the 80s to early/mid 90s.

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a page of sound clips for you to check - both bikes and cruchy snow, but together ⬇️ ?

I suspect @notjustbikes will have some buried under his music if he feels like doing the "crunch-remix" on a bit of his video

ecosia.org/search?q=sound+of+c…

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@Zimtfisch I don't know about the crying ones, but screaming ones yes: huutajat.org/en/

Although I don't think "screaming" is a perfect translation either, but that's what they seem to go with themselves so whatever 😅

Mieskuoro Huutajat - Screaming Men’s Choir

Huutajat is a choir that doesn’t sing a note. 20-40 properly dressed men enter the venue with military precision and begin to scream, bellow and shout excerpts from national anthems, children’s ditties or international treaties.
Mieskuoro Huutajat - Screaming Men’s Choir
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@mike Wind chill isn’t a physical air temperature and can’t be measured with a thermometer, that’s true. But it’s defined as an equivalent temperature: the air temperature in calm conditions that would cause the same rate of heat loss from exposed skin. Because of that, it’s still expressed in degrees (°C or °F), even though it’s an index rather than a direct measurement.
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Not according to eg Environment Canada: canada.ca/en/services/environm… and any other text I have consulted. Wind chill and humidex are both unitless.

Wind chill and the Wind Chill Index - Canada.ca

Learn about wind chill, the Wind Chill Index, how wind affects your body, exposure risks, and how to estimate wind chill. Stay safe during cold weather with wind chill forecasts, safety tips, and helpful resources.
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Beautiful photos!

I often cite Oulu as an example when people argue that year-round bicycle infrastructure isn't viable in Thunder Bay.

There are some interesting parallels between our cities. We're not on the ocean but have an ocean-going port, often with 5-6 'salties' at anchor waiting to load wheat or potash mostly; we're a regional hub a long way from our provincial and national capitals; and, have similar temperatures and seasons.

I really hope to visit Oulu one day!

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