I used to ride twenty miles to work over Bulbarrow in Dorset on a Suzuki GP100 when I was 17, whether it was rain snow or ice. I had an open face Nolan piss-pot helmet and no goggles because they steamed up, just a scarf - which froze. No proper biking gear, just wellies, my overalls and waxed coat and dairyman's waterproof over-trousers. Didn't have any bike gloves. Wore a 1960's vintage pair of my Dad's leather driving gaunlets which weren't waterproof.
I was working in a farm. When I got there there was no time to warm up. Straight in with the feeding and the yard scraping, nowhere warm to sit to eat my dinner and at 6 pm put on my still-wet gear and ride home again.
We've barely had a winter this year. One week of snow and a few frosts but nothing much. At least up here it's been relatively dry compared with last year.
I can identify with the above, though only 10 miles on a Raleigh Runabout, wellies plastic coated cotton over-trousers and a donkey jacket.