Episode 69: Winter Riding — Tips and Tricks from Laura and Ted King

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Your Guide for a Great Winter Ride! This is a special one, welcome to King of the Ride podcast. Here we have return guest/sometimes-co-host Laura King and Ted talk about how to optimize your cold weather riding. You asked, we answered. After more than 1000 questions came pouring in, Laura and I summarized them and answer them today in this podcast. Here in Vermont, where the sun rises at lunchtime and sets a few minutes later, we need to make the most of our riding window and that takes lots of hardware, software, and just the right equipment. Here are some products mentioned in this podcast: Velocio is the only clothing we use. From stifling hot to frigid cold, there is NO better clothing out there. Alternating piping hot Ginger Mapleaid and Lemon Tea Mapleaid from UnTapped in a vacuum bottle is a definite. Bar Mitts are our dropbar bike hand covering of choice, now with Extreme Cold models. 45NRTH is our go-to for winter riding boots. Their Ragnarok are good MTB shoes for the slush and their Wolfgar are great in the deep frozen tundra. We also use their Cobrafist for arctic riding on a flat bar bike. Planet Bike SpeedEZ are the fenders currently on my bike. SKS Xtra Dry fender is currently on Laura's bike. Rene Herse Hurricane Ridge tires when I need some tread. Otherwise their Barlow Pass or Snoqualmie Pass are totally fine -- wide and supple. 45NRTH Dillinger 5 are 5" studded tires for fat biking. More questions? Send them to @iamtedking or @lauracameronking.

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0:00.0	Hello there, my friends. I am Ted King. Welcome to another episode of King of the Ride podcast.
0:10.9	Now, I wouldn't yet call it routine, but we're hitting something of a stride here with Laura here on the podcast as my guest slash co-host.
0:20.4	You know, the mood is right.
0:22.0	Hazel's gone to bed.
0:23.1	We've had dinner.
0:24.4	The house is quiet.
0:25.6	So it's time to podcast and chill.
0:29.4	Kidding?
0:30.6	Serious?
0:31.2	Maybe a little bit of both.
0:32.6	In any event, very friendly comments do come rolling in when Laura is on the podcast.
0:36.7	So here we are again.
0:39.0	No surprise. If you look out the window here in the northern hemisphere, maybe there's some
0:43.3	snow on the ground, or you're looking at what time the sun is setting smack in middle of the
0:48.5	afternoon, it's winter. We got a foot of snow here in Vermont yesterday. Single digits are forecasted all throughout
0:56.3	the week. Now, one of the reasons we move to Vermont is to embrace winter. So that means Nordic
1:02.0	and Alpine skiing. It means hiking. It means snowshoeing. It means the bane of every kid in New
1:07.0	England's existence and why we had hazel shoveling snow. Again, I'm kidding. Winter is sweet.
1:15.0	We love it and we still love riding our bikes in it. One thing that helps us embrace winter
1:20.3	is now living in a time where proper winter riding gear exists. That wasn't necessarily the case
1:26.7	even 10 years ago. So from the
1:29.4	clothing to the accoutrements you're going to put on your hands, head and feet, to the fenders,
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