big tee

Well-known Member
Saw this---Tee
a250469.jpg
 
Tee-
Having lived in WI most of my life, with a 5 year stint in NY, many regions of the East Coast know far more about snow than us Midwesterners do. I've never seen snow here like I did when a Nor-easter would hit. The worst was 42 in in about 10 hours!

Currently, one of my best friends says he has about 18 inches on the ground in Northern NY. We have about 3, and it is supposed to be 40 by Monday.
 
Took some friends from the Chicago area , who always made fun of us for closing schools because of snow here in the mountains of NC, riding on the roads that the buses travel on while it was snowing they were pretty much freaked out before we got home.
 
Land of Lincolner myself, been out a couple of times wondering why I'm out, but didn't go back. Only 4 wheel drive I've ever owned was hers
and that was cause it came that way. It was handy to have once in the 4 years we had it.
 
I've thought about this, and why it is that the world ends when it snows in the south, and I think it's a combination of factors. Naturally, people who don't drive in the snow suck at driving in the snow. They're also not equipped to drive in the snow. Some might have all season tires, but just as many likely have summer tires, which are completely worthless in the snow. The biggest thing is that they don't normally get just snow, they get an inch of ice, which would shut the midwest down too. The midwest doesn't get the ice because they're temperatures are typically colder.
 
For 'east coast' read 'south of England', and for 'mid-west' read 'highlands of Scotland' and you've got the same picture in the UK!
Jim
 
(quoted from post at 10:40:38 12/16/17) If all thats true why do they have those 100+ car pile ups when it snows up North?

Those are caused by citiots and transplanted southerners. Those of us that live in the rural north all our lives know how to drive in snow.
 
Living here along the Eastern shore of Lake Michigan provides for some interesting nature effects on our weather. The biggest is the slower change in temperature of that giant body of water- it stays warm in the early winter, allowing cold air blowing over the water to pick up extra moisture and dump it on us in the form of lake effect snow.

As mentioned. we have had a couple of the hundred-car pileups near us due to zero visibility. When the giant lake-effect snowflakes are coming down at five to ten inches per hour, you cannot see fifty feet in front of you. Unfortunately, a few drivers not slowing down leads to chain reaction crashes that can go on for several minutes, and usually take a couple of lives. Way too much rushing around these days.

Then, we stay cool in the spring because of the giant body of cold water, which retards the bud break of our fruit crops, [u:603bff83de]often[/u:603bff83de] keeping the plants dormant until after the weather warms enough to avoid killing frosts.
 
A little snow or freezing rain doesn't stop my Sunday bike ride
FrFNbcW.jpg

hey Randy- do you run special tires for the winter, or just all-terrains?

One year I set out to justify the insurance cost of my bike, rode that GSXR 1100 to work at east one day of fifty weeks out of the year. The tires I used were not at all conducive to snow, so I drove a company car home a couple of times, but, boy, did she run great in the cold weather!!!
 
(quoted from post at 16:46:45 12/18/17)

hey Randy- do you run special tires for the winter, or just all-terrains?

One year I set out to justify the insurance cost of my bike, rode that GSXR 1100 to work at east one day of fifty weeks out of the year. The tires I used were not at all conducive to snow, so I drove a company car home a couple of times, but, boy, did she run great in the cold weather!!!

in front, I have a block knobby, I drilled stud pockets and put regular car studs in, in back, I have gone to the "darkside" I am running a car tire, it was an experiment so I bought the cheapest true winter tire I could find not knowing if it would even clear my swingarm or chain, it is quite a bit wider just because that is all that is available in 17". It clears the chain by less than 1/8" I've been out in freezing rain, snow, a blizzard once just to see how well it went. I have about 8" ground clearance, and once depths get above that, I get hung up like any other vehicle at its limit, been out on frozen lake, bare ice areas and areas of snow mostly compacted by snowmobiles, The experiment ? Successful beyond my WILDEST IMAGINATION, my bucket ride is to Deadhorse, Alaska in winter, i'm prepping my bike :mrgreen:
 
Sounds like a fun ride, but I think I'd prefer to do so on a snowmobile, especially with the comfort of today's sleds.

Does the car tire in back effect your ability to turn the bike by leaning- it would seem the sidewall shoulder is more square than most bike tires. I guess the improved traction is worth it.
 
(quoted from post at 10:52:14 12/19/17) Sounds like a fun ride, but I think I'd prefer to do so on a snowmobile, especially with the comfort of today's sleds.

Does the car tire in back effect your ability to turn the bike by leaning- it would seem the sidewall shoulder is more square than most bike tires. I guess the improved traction is worth it.

naw, it's a radial tire, the sidewall flexes, surprisingly, a car tire always has more contact patch than a motorcycle tire, no matter how much it leans, I can get over enuf to scrape hardware, further than that is crashing, I can ride my bike all day and then some, A few IronButt Association rides under my belt (longest so far is a BBG, did 1546 miles in 23:05 hours) so the comfort factor is taken care of ergonomically, I've been out to -25°f only cause that is the coldest weather we've had locally, I rode my 100 mile winter loop
 

We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today.

Back
Top