The holes in the streets make for a high degree of alertness on your part. Tire pressure is the key for keeping you on the street or walking. I keep mine maxed to full. I am rather heavy on the bike and my studded tires have a lot of room to work with. The edges of the holes can be very sharp and will take you out before you can say “jiminy crickets.“
Most commuters avoid the cold and icy condition and will not have to put up with them. For me, I call the city and have them fix the ones I feel can do me and the bike harm. It just takes a call to street maintenance. So far they come out the same day.
For us cyclist that commute in this kind of weather, we find that our routes are a lot narrower and make for some conditions of sharing the road unavoidable. The sidewalks are not the way to go because of the build up of black-ice and Ice-dams. I was told that the sidewalks will always be trashed by the plows and no changes will be made.
When commuting on the streets, you will find lots of holes ahead of you, keep your lines of movement in smooth predictable lines, never tack or abrupt weave. Keep your eyes looking way ahead and behind to make a safe avoidance move. You will get a few honks, but most drivers are cool.

Something way off the subject!
I still think that if the streets are posted 25 mph it is OK to mingle but, if they are posted 45 to 55 mph then it’s a form of murder. Something that MOST car drivers get away with.
Please, it is just my thinking. I know a lot of you fellow cyclist like to be a moving obstacle and think that drivers like to have someone going 25 to 30 on a street that posted 45. but that is just me.

I know what you mean about potholes there seems to be a lot of them, this
year. When I ride to work thru Kettering, Centerville, at night I slow down,
because they are harder to see at night (8:00 p.m). And the black ice is bad
so I usally ride three feet from the crub, since form past, the water don’t seem
to run out that far, when it’s melted. And the bikeway from Iron Horse park
to Hempstead Station road, is still snow covered with a lot of black ice. Today
I tryed to ride and I about fell twice,and most of the places to go from road to
bikeway have two foot snow still piled up.
You can report a pothole, in Kettering on their city, street Dept. website, but
the phone will be quicker.
On a side note I saw today, on Hempstead station road they, had a lot of new
bike route signs ,and share the roade signs up. I guess since it going to be part
of the bikeway, to get to Stroop Rd. The new side walk on the south side of Hempstead
Station road is a wide one like the one on Research Blvd., so I guess they want
everyone to rid e the sidewalk, instead in the road. But I ‘ll stick to the road. thought
riding on sidewalk was aginst the law.
Everyone be careful out there and watch out for black ice and potholes..Warmer weather
comming this week-end, so that will take care of some of the problem.