Hangar Queen & winter riding

[fish]

30 degrees F yesterday...snow in the forecast again.
So this ride was scheduled therapy. Wife's orders.







And the old hangar queen standing by, plugged into the tender, waiting for good weather or dry roads, as I rinse off the winter ride.
Fish

[gn2]

Gee I like your Kymco

[you you]

Gee I like your Kymco

So does his wife....

[Steph]

@fish - your little scoot is the coolest! I love it's looks and blue and white color. Your photos really show it off! Our scoots are garage queens right now until maybe the upper 30s. We are snowed in right now. Expecting 11 to 14 inches.

[BRed]

My Forza passed another "test" this past weekend....
it got the "mud test".

7.3 miles of red clay mud road down along the Mayo River.
It was the sort of test you wouldn't really just go out and do with no clear destination in mind or for no good reason but since one of my friends was cooking a stew on the river and the Forza had not had it's initiation of mud, I decided to ride it.

Temps were a few degrees above freezing.....
of the 33 vehicles in attendance 29 were 4WD and 26 were trucks.....
only one lonely scooter.
















Although the ScootSmart is an absolutely lousy "off-road" tire, the Forza did not go down!!
(it did get sideways 4 or 5 times however) and it is now covered in red clay mud.

Pass!

[BRed]

For real winter riding fun, nothing I've found beats this:























Ural Patrol
4 speed w/reverse and 2WD (engage the sidecar drive and it's wheel pulls too!)

A motorcycle/ATV/Snowmobile in one street legal package that is the most fun you can have in the snow (with your clothes on).

[fish]

For real winter riding fun, nothing I've found beats this:

Ural Patrol
4 speed w/reverse and 2WD (engage the sidecar drive and it's wheel pulls too!)

A motorcycle/ATV/Snowmobile in one street legal package that is the most fun you can have in the snow (with your clothes on).

The other day, as I stood waiting for the city bus to take me near my home.....because I was once again snowed off of my scooter commute - I was thinking, "Side car. If I had a scoot with a side car I could be riding instead of waiting for this bus!"
I've seen them for those Indian Vespas, and have seen videos of Urals with the side cars going through the snow.
But, heck...I don't want to put one on either of my scooters.....
Yet.
Fish

(there are two perfectly good cars at my house - but I'm going through a phase where I refuse to own another one, and I don't like people taking me to work. Cold is not an issue....& now that I have my Gerbings my hands no longer let me down. But I'm not crazy enough to ride at 5:00 AM on dark snowy/icy streets in traffic.)

[fish]

My Forza passed another "test" this past weekend....
it got the "mud test".

7.3 miles of red clay mud road down along the Mayo River.
It was the sort of test you wouldn't really just go out and do with no clear destination in mind or for no good reason but since one of my friends was cooking a stew on the river and the Forza had not had it's initiation of mud, I decided to ride it.

Temps were a few degrees above freezing.....
of the 33 vehicles in attendance 29 were 4WD and 26 were trucks.....
only one lonely scooter.
Although the ScootSmart is an absolutely lousy "off-road" tire, the Forza did not go down!!
(it did get sideways 4 or 5 times however) and it is now covered in red clay mud.

Pass!

BRed,
A) The Mayo Clinic looks nothing like what I've imagined.
B) Looking at your buddie's Clinic/restaurant - it probably would be impolite to ask which marsupial is in the stew.
3) Thanks for not posting a picture of your mud encrusted Forza.
D) Could we see a picture of the encrusted Forza? (sort of aversion therapy)
Fish

[fish]

For real winter riding fun, nothing I've found beats this:
Ural Patrol
4 speed w/reverse and 2WD (engage the sidecar drive and it's wheel pulls too!)

A motorcycle/ATV/Snowmobile in one street legal package that is the most fun you can have in the snow (with your clothes on).

Oh man...I'm saving up for the Red October Ltd Ed !
(burn all my senior bus passes!)
Fish