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Message started by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/04/13 at 10:05:24

Title: Winterbike
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/04/13 at 10:05:24

This is how my yeararround bike look's some days :-)

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by perajani on 03/04/13 at 11:01:52

;D Hello my swedish friend. You cannot fool us. Only if you would have spikes I would even wonder this to be possible.

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/04/13 at 11:17:35

This is how my world here in sweden looks in the winter, and i love to ride bike's , so i have to go for it.

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/04/13 at 11:48:47

What i have to deal with this morning :-) Some say i'm crasy.

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by paulmarshall on 03/04/13 at 11:52:24

4E6277776A2D53627668686C6D666D030 wrote:

What i have to deal with this morning :-) Some say i'm crasy.

Maybe a little more keen than crazy. :)

Title: Home after work
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/04/13 at 10:13:32

It's snowy in Sweden

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Cavi Mike on 03/05/13 at 01:52:41

Street tires on the ice? You definitely got some big ones.

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by splash07 on 03/05/13 at 04:56:30

How many times have you put that thing down on ice or snow? If it were me there wouldnt be much left on either side of that bike.

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/05/13 at 05:07:25

None this winter, but several times earlier, have to bee carefull with the right hand.

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by WD on 03/05/13 at 08:52:44

Two words... tire chains. It IS kinda fun though, and to see the look on cagers faces as you go by on a bike... ;D My friend Doug will ride in up to 5 inches of snow on his 1500 Drifter.

See...http://nathan-lee.com/blog/2009/06/03/riding-in-snow-we-have-the-technology/

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Paraquat on 03/05/13 at 09:18:13

You'd probably get along with Digger.
Me? I'm waiting until it's ~45 degrees when I wake up and after the streets have been swept free of salt.

--Steve

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/05/13 at 10:00:43

I love'd to try chains, but there is'nt room enogh cos i changed my rear tire to a bigger one. Last weeek we had -18*celsius and that is cold i can tell. The worst parts to protect is the fingers on the throtelhand, the left hand is easy to warm up on the engine while driving :-)

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Greg on 03/05/13 at 10:19:06

527E6B6B76314F7E6A747470717A711F0 wrote:

What gloves do you use?

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/05/13 at 10:34:11

Old Swedish army thumbgloves when under -0celsius, dont know what that's in fahrenheit, tryed with fingerglove's but they dont work when it's reealy cold. The biggest problem when driving in a lot of snow is that the airfilter will be coverd whit snow and the bike sometimes therefore will die

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by verslagen1 on 03/05/13 at 11:09:59

think he means mittens

0° C = 32° F

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Greg on 03/05/13 at 11:34:30

I figured mittens. I keep looking at them. When I decide on the "right" pair, winter will be over. ;D I made the mistake of going to a biker leather/helmet/accessory shop and asking for mittens. I got some hardcore stares. I typically have the only metric in the parking lot as well. They don't mind me much though as I spend a great deal of money there.

Title: Re: Winterbike
Post by Cowboy from Sweden on 03/05/13 at 11:56:08

Don't visit that kind of shop's to often, i try to find my kind of stuff in army surplus store's. Biker shop's love our money but they dont know nuts when it come's to extrem bikeriding as i do, and they are expensive to. Greg, you have to buy you a Harley for your peace when visiting the local shop. ;-)