When I first started biking to work in the winter about 16 years ago, if I saw anyone else on a bicycle in January, I either knew them or I called the five other people I knew who also biked to work in the winter and told them excitedly ???I saw somebody biking to work!??? Now I see a handful of people every day, and I ride in at 6:30 in the morning when the roads are mostly free of any traffic.