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Post by Alsenor on Aug 15, 2009 10:03:20 GMT -5
Just in case anyone thought we were just "fair weather" riders, here is what I usually used to find on a typical winter morning. Simply swept the snow off the seat, scraped off the ice, sat down and rode with a cold butt for a couple of minutes! ;D Ah yes, I was 16... and this was my very first moped I owned.  |
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Post by Reign on Aug 16, 2009 9:41:41 GMT -5
that had to be hard to get any traction with those skinny tires on the snow. nice looking scooter though. I have a old honda in my garage. probably from the early 70's. Also have another one that hasnt been run in probably at least 25 years. its from 1953. its a honda moped that my dad had as his first vehicle. he shaved the heads on it and made it go over 50 MPH back then  |
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Post by Alsenor on Aug 16, 2009 10:07:18 GMT -5
I don't recall much of a problem. But that may in part be due to the fact that we LOVED to skid sideways on the snow and ice! ;D
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Post by Reign on Aug 16, 2009 10:18:46 GMT -5
ah yea, thats something i dont like to do i had a bad experience once taking a bike out just after the first snowfall of the year. i hit a patch of ice while peddling and the back wheel slipped and i fell off and got scraped up pretty bad. I've already managed to have my scooter down too. i went to make a u-turn and hit some loose sand/gravel on the road and the whole front end slid out from under me. luckily i was almost at a complete stop anyways. now i take it easy when going around corners because theres always a ton of gravel/sand around here. the roads are terrible. |
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Post by Alsenor on Aug 16, 2009 13:04:56 GMT -5
I've already managed to have my scooter down too. i went to make a u-turn and hit some loose sand/gravel on the road and the whole front end slid out from under me. luckily i was almost at a complete stop anyways. now i take it easy when going around corners because theres always a ton of gravel/sand around here. the roads are terrible. Well, gravel is a bit different, because it holds, then suddenly lets go. Just never use the front brakes on questionable surfaces! |
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Post by meitianman on Aug 25, 2009 19:35:43 GMT -5
up here in western new york there is no way to ride past about mid December due to the huge amounts of snow. so this is what i drive  |
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Post by chaz12 on Aug 31, 2009 22:39:02 GMT -5
Ya, I was looking at snow tires for scooters. No Chains... Had a scooter that one takes the from tire off and puts in its place, ski's. Looked pretty cool. Guy rode a wheelie and rode about 40 mph on snow and ice.. Than I saw some ice racing tires, with little strong metal spikes in the tire. Was actually for a full size racing motorcycle. Don't snow enough in Missouri to worry about ski's for front of my scooter, but did find some nice treaded all weather tires for my scooter. See slick street tires are o.k. for my Bali 250 because I will not ride in the winter time unless 40 degrees out. But the 3 wheel reverse trike one can operate in snow conditions if change tires. My wife and I are buying a SL-150T-27 scootcar( 3 wheeler) to do things together on.
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Post by kclime on Oct 11, 2009 17:30:55 GMT -5
When I was younger, we used to put nails in the tires of our dirtbikes (spare tires, of course) and ride on the frozen ponds. Great fun!
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Post by meitianman on Oct 13, 2009 10:00:52 GMT -5
we used to do something similar with 1/4" sheet metal screws. start a small fire and put them in a coffee can to let them heat up. once they were good and hot we would screw them into the knobs on the dirt bike tires, the heat would let them kinda melt in and once set keep them from comming out.
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