Ok, I ride a suspended Actionbent RoadRunner SWB for the social aspects on the trails.  For grins and giggles, usually solo, I ride my Optima Baron Lowracer.  I am a recreational rider as I am old and tired out!  For excitement, I race my kart.  If you see a geezer on either the yellow bikes above, stop me and say hey! 
Most of the time I ride the trails out of Xenia, where I live.

Hello!
I’m Bob Overstreet and just took up biking this summer after the price of gas inspired me to find a hobby other than scuba diving that required driving to sites 3 or more hours away.

Just last weekend, I reached the 1000 mile milestone for the summer, half of that on a retail-store mountain bike, and the second half on a Cannondale road bike.

I’m realizing that biking is every bit as addictive as the diving I’ve been doing for the past 10 years, and something that I can do much more often.

I’m looking forward to reading about tips to stay warm while biking in the colder seasons of the year!

Bob - Nice to meet you.

~Randy

Hello all, and welcome Bob:

My name is Richard Lawson, and I’m addicated to cycling, I have been doing it since 1970.
I have commuted to Moraine,From Centerville and Kettering to the GM assemably plant, till
I retired in 1999.I mainly ride old steel bikes, and collect old schwinns,and redo them. I’m
63 years young, and ride the trail for Greene County Trail Sentinels.
If you see a old man on a black Schwinn Prelude, standing around Xenia Station, passing out
maps, or trying to find someone to talk to about cycling, that’s me. Just walk on up and I’ll
probley, talk your arm off, about the trails and cycling.
And Bob, there are a few of us on this board, that ride all winter, me-wanabug-Oldslacker, so if
you need and help, be sure to ask away. The one thing I would saw, is never-ever wear a cotton
shirt, next to your skin, if your going to sweat in the cold weather, it will turn you in to a pop-cycle.
Well thats about it, everyone take care, and watch out for deers and walnut on the bikeways.

Thanks for the welcome FF and BH!
It sounds like the old adage is true in all sports “Cotton Kills”!

I agree with Bikehead about cotton.  Wool seems to be best.  The main thing is when it gets into the 20s, put on more layers on the hands.  They lose heat the quickest.  I usually wear a t-shirt and windbreaker with cloth gloves into the 40s then add wind pants and ear warmer in the 30s with another layer of glove liners too.  In the lower 30s to upper 20s, I add a face mask & sweatshirt.  For the lower 20s I add another layer on my hands and toe insulation over shoes as well as sweatpants.  One caution, (like my high school cross-country coach, Ed Baldwin used to say) “Listen to your body.“  If you get overheated and sweaty, even non-cotton can’t keep you warm.  I just add layers as it gets uncomfortable and open them up as I heat up, but with the constant windchill produced by your motion through the air, you need to keep your hands warm.  I have bike commuted 12 miles in -5 degrees.  Not any more, though.  I retired in January, so I can just wait out the sub freezing days now!

In case you didn’t get my intro elsewhere, I am Bill Shaneyfelt, 62 years old and have been riding bikes on public highways since I was about 11.  I have bike commuted most of my adult life and believe it is the main reason I am as healthy as I am.  I currently have about 8 bikes in various stages of disrepair, but have a new Trek commuter bike my brother bought me as a retirement present this summer when I rode ttrough Tennessee on my way to Wake Forest, NC and back.  I also occasionally ride a fairly nice mountain bike too.  If you see a guy riding a white bike with lots of white reflective tape all over it, and wearing a helmet with a light on top, that’s me.

awanabug - 27 September 2008 10:00 PM

The main thing is when it gets into the 20s, put on more layers on the hands.  They lose heat the quickest. .

Except when riding a recumbent with a fairing. 

Yeah, smarty, rub it in!  )