I Live in alsace, its in the east of france, and yeah, i can f**king forget about riding my bike before at least a week because it's friggin' -1C aswell...sometimes I envy english weather. The snow novelty wears off really fast, you get about one good day of sledging and snowball fighting before you're just sat in your garage cleaning your bike, I MEAN CLEANING IT FFS! I'm going mad...