Jeff Ballweg

This is quickly shaping up to be one of the snowiest winters on record. We’ve got a good start to surpassing the record snows we got last year. The National Weather Service says we’ve gotten 17 inches of snow this year, and they’re predicting that we could get a foot or more in the next [...]

Madison is getting some truly unseasonable weather this week, as we managed to get get freezing drizzle, below-zero temperatures and enough snow to call a snow emergency in the space of about three days.  My commuter bike is a Surly Long Haul Trucker. It’s a great bike, but the stock tires are mediocre for touring, [...]