| Author | Message | ||
     Preybird1 |
Ok i got snow here in UTAH!! Last year i got to ride until September | ||
| Tramp |
Why let snow stop you? Riding through snowy winters can be a blast, and it can teach you great balance and reserve with regard to braking. | ||
| Pkman |
Maybe they should name this board after bad weather biking?  -sorry not everyone appreciates my sarcasm! | ||
| Tramp |
I actually thought, when i first saw this website, that it was dedicated to folks who ride in all weather at any time. At that time, i was commuting through NY Winters to my Ski School job every day on my S2t (it still had its purple bodywork), and I figured I found like-minded individuals. I did find some, anyway, along with many other ool fellow Buellers. | ||
| Crusty |
What!!?! Ride all year round? On a motorcycle? The only way I do something as foolish as that would be if I lived in Colorado, or Boston, or in some climate where it never gets cold.  | ||
| Nevrenuf |
dirt biking when i was a tad younger in the snow was fun but would you call that snow biking. or in some cases, mud biking. been down in florida way to long now. but one day. | ||
| Tramp |
We called it "White Dirt"...at last that's what Jammin' called it when he was tutoring me as a tiny tramp. | ||
| Froggy |
I snowed a bit a few weeks ago here in NY. Doesn't stop me, its quite fun!   | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
"Why let snow stop you?" It's not the snow that worries me, its the salt. | ||
| Spatten1 |
Yeah the salt did wonders for my X1. Pretty much every faster was coroded and looked like shit or was frozen. No thanks. | ||
| Froggy |
Yea the salt does make a mess!  | ||
| Etennuly |
Back in the day, a good friend of mine had this mid 70's, 400cc two smoke Husky, it had the head shaved, special rings and such that it made a lot of power for the time(of course very little suspension and even less brakes  )and knobby tires from hell. We lived in the Southern Tier of Western NY state. I was riding a new ATC 200X it was in '84 . We got a snow storm that dumped two feet of snow in one night, and we already had four inches on the ground. It drifted in places in his field, up to four feet, nice heavy ski type powder snow  . I towed him on that Husky for about a mile on his solid ice covered road in front of his house to where I finally found a patch of grass on the berm that the snow plows laid bare. It was funny as hell watching him try to get it to roll over on that ice. It hit the grass spot and fired right up  ! As soon as it fired off he and our twenty foot rope passed me. Once he got stopped I untied the rope and his skating program started! It idled about 1800 rpm and it had one of those snap your neck power bands starting at about 6000 rpm, but nothing in between. He was fortunate to be 6'2" so his boots could act as out riggers on that ice. Impressively, he made it back to his field where the snow started out shallow then the drifts got deep. I would guess he was doing about 60 mph as he hit the first set of deep drifts, I could hear it running, doing its "brap"-"brap" at 7000+ rpm, but there was no seeing him at all. Nothing but a giant rooster tail of snow, ice chunks, and mud! I got a few pictures of when he turned across the field at a 90 degree angle. I think they are at my mom's house. That rooster tail was fifty feet behind him and at least twenty feet high! Then he circled around he headed right into his garage. It was only then I noticed he had left his gloves in the garage! It was less than 10 degrees, his attempts to kick start it, and when I towed him around, and his ride took nearly an hour. The left side hand grip was a bare metal bar. I thought he was shaking from the excitement of the ride, wrong. But hey, we did a lot of fun stuff like that when we were in our twenties, just to make our parents wonder.....why, and when we might grow up. Then at 48.....I met you guys!  | ||
| Fast1075 |
Snow??? Thats when that ice stuff falls out of the sky, right??? | ||
| Tramp |
My fasteners didn't corrode after many long winters of riding on salted, icy roads... weird. maybe the layers of oil on everything have protected my scoot? | ||
| Preybird1 |
The liquid salt solution they spray on the freeways here is VERY CORROSIVE! I would never ride my X1 in weather like that it is to nice for that! I used to ride my little honda enduro all year round. | ||
| Swordsman |
Time to break out the Brad Pitt tires! ~SM | ||
| Daveswan |
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| Bob_thompson |
Riding in the snow isn't much fun for me anymore. It seems to take too much of the fun factor out of the ride, being extra cautious with traction but then I'm old. But late fall and early spring sometimes has dry enough roads in these twisty Rockies canyons to still ENJOY the ride with some respectable vigor. Snow should be gone by Sunday and the sun shining. I'll be in these canyons again, maybe for the last time this year. Hopefully not. Bob  | ||
| Zac4mac |
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