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<blockquote data-quote="us56456712" data-source="post: 1204364" data-attributes="member: 19143"><p>This reminds me of the mid 60s here in the UP. There were quite a few of us (at least 6 riders that I remember) who rode Triumph motorcycles daily all winter. We could afford either a VW Bug, junker car or a British motorcycle, but not a car and a motorcycle. We opted for the motorcycle. We either had jobs or jobs and university classes so we rode in horrid rounded bumpy smooth ice. My one friends rode 130 mile round trip, just for fun, where only the car tires had occasionally worn away the ice In a narrow grove. I don’t know how he did it, it was cold, no electric cheater heater jackets then, and there were lots of places that day where the tires hadn’t worn down the ice. It was treterous. He was the best rider of the group. Sadly he was killed by a hit and run driver on the freeway on his motorcycle about 20 years ago. They never found the killer. The police told his widow, right away, that in cases like this they seldom find the killer. Hopefully more people have cameras now. I was shocked to hear that this was a pretty common occurrence.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="us56456712, post: 1204364, member: 19143"] This reminds me of the mid 60s here in the UP. There were quite a few of us (at least 6 riders that I remember) who rode Triumph motorcycles daily all winter. We could afford either a VW Bug, junker car or a British motorcycle, but not a car and a motorcycle. We opted for the motorcycle. We either had jobs or jobs and university classes so we rode in horrid rounded bumpy smooth ice. My one friends rode 130 mile round trip, just for fun, where only the car tires had occasionally worn away the ice In a narrow grove. I don’t know how he did it, it was cold, no electric cheater heater jackets then, and there were lots of places that day where the tires hadn’t worn down the ice. It was treterous. He was the best rider of the group. Sadly he was killed by a hit and run driver on the freeway on his motorcycle about 20 years ago. They never found the killer. The police told his widow, right away, that in cases like this they seldom find the killer. Hopefully more people have cameras now. I was shocked to hear that this was a pretty common occurrence. [/QUOTE]

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