Having snow and ice and mud and sand cake up so much on your seat tube that it rubs on your rear tire makes it really hard to pedal! And once I stopped and hung the bike up on my little cleaning stand, the whole drivetrain froze solid almost instantly. I have to go out and check and see if my little fan heater aimed at the crankset has removed the ice from the granny gear - I couldn't even see that it was there, and couldn't reach it to chip the ice off.

At least I was outside, though. The big bright thing was out in the sky again.

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