Are you as tough as a Park Tool designer?

Park Tool’s headquarters are in wintry Minnesota, so — along with all the good folks at Quality Bike Parts and Island Cycle Supply and World Cycling Productions and Twin Six and Kurt Kinetic and all of their groupies — there are an astonishing number of year-around bike commuters who have no problem riding in a foot of snow and -10 degrees.

In fact, Minnesota just isn’t cold and snowy enough for some folks.

Park Tool tells us today that their design engineer , Pierre Ostor, will be racing the infamous Iditabike race in Alaska in February, and we’ll be able to track his progress through Park Tool’s website. Except, of course, on Stupor Bowl Sunday, when we’ll be busy.