I saw one time bikes that were set up for running on ice, maybe you need to mount studs front and rear so you could ride year around. hehe

 

You know, twenty years ago the hard core rider might have been able to squeeze in five months - then it was all snow and freezing temps.

Now - thanks to global warming - it's all changed!

I was born and raised here, and as a kid there was snow by mid Aug or Sept, freezing temps by Oct, and no sign of spring until May.
Now - we're bereaking the bikes out in early April - and some years there's no snow until late Nov or even Dec.

 

The other day I was at the dealer's and he's got old photo's of area rider's from the 30's 40's and 50's all over the place and he's got 5 or 6 pic's of diffrent rider's that rode all through the winter just as a matter of daily life. They were running full chains front and back with what looked like 1/2" studs on plates across the face of the tire conecting the chains on each side of the tire and enough canvas on the front of the bikes to sail a ship, these pic's were from 30's and early 40's and if there is one thing you can say about them they were some tuff buggers. I did that all winter ride one year when all I had for transportation was the bike and Ill say one thing about it THAT SURE AS HELL AINT GONA HAPPEN AGAIN, the summer here in Wisconsin can be a pain some times but during the winter when you have to be somewere and all youve got is the bike and it's either 15deg.below or snowing it has a way of just sucking the fun out of the whole day



J.B.