Nice! ...but makes me cold just lookin' at it! 
Silverking in a Winter storm
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I'm curious, I was raised in riverside ca now living in Las Vegas I've been to the snow twice. Is it hard to ride a bike in snow? way kool pics man. Not something I see on my side of the country.
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Real nice bike, I am envious. However, storm? Around here they don't even bother to plow when we get that much snow. If we get that much for several days in a row they may reluctantly get the plows out. They are worse at plowing this year as the city quit plowing parts of the bike path and some of the sidewalks I used to ride on. The streets have been way too snow covered and mushy for bicycle riding for about 2 weeks now. It snowed all morning today and we got about the same as in your picture but it is 4F and windy. I'm not kidding, no one here even notices the amount of snow you got. Most people don't even shovel or plow it, just drive or walk over it. Each neighborhood has one or two uptight types that leaf blow and sweep their walks and driveways at the first flake. I just drive over it and chop all the ice off in the spring. Too busy fussing with bikes to get caught up in something as mundane as shoveling snow, unless I have to. Usually its the women folks that make me drop the bicycles and go out and help them shovel. Hey, my wife just came in from shoveling and didn't call me out, she knows I would tell her "doesn't need it".
2010 storm, but we really haven't had a real house smothering blizzard for awhile.
After heavy snows you have to shovel off the roof. The Mall in Sault Ste. Marie collapsed about 20 years ago after it smothered everything. The prison staff was stuck for 2 days: they couldn't get home and couldn't get to work so they just stayed at work.
When I was a kid (60 years ago) I never remember them calling off school for a snow storm. If the busses didn't run there were less farm kids in class. Everyone else walked or snowshoed to school. You could put your snowshoes in your locker. We also brought our shotguns to school and put them in our lockers so we could go hunting after school. They sometimes made a tunnel through the snow from the parking lot to the school entrance. I used to marvel at this and realized even as a youngster that this was really something. When spring came they shoveled the top off and it was a trench with snow stairs leading up and down. We don't routinely get snow like this anymore and now they haul it away. Everyone used to drive around with colored balls on their car antennas so you could see them at intersections over the snow banks. The snowbanks are cut down with giant augers and hauled away in dump trucks several time a winter now. No fun at all. In the good old days one of my friends tried to get to class after a big storm buried his house. He threw his snowshoes out the kitchen window, and then jumped out himself. He had difficulty with the snowshoes as he was swimming around in the deep snow. He lived on a hill and after going downhill for half a block he came to a cross street where the wind was blowing down and had piled up a 10 foot high drift. He tried to climb it but gave up, skipped school and went home. One time our water pipers froze in our basement after it had been -20 to -40 F for a over a week. That was the time they cancelled school at a small towns about 40 miles away because it was isolated and the population was spread out in the boondocks and everyone was bussed in. I remember they said it was -67F and none of the busses would start. I think that must have been with the wind chill but it was a long time ago and all I remember the -67F. Sounds like BS, even to me, but it happened back in my fading memory.
2010 storm, but we really haven't had a real house smothering blizzard for awhile.
After heavy snows you have to shovel off the roof. The Mall in Sault Ste. Marie collapsed about 20 years ago after it smothered everything. The prison staff was stuck for 2 days: they couldn't get home and couldn't get to work so they just stayed at work.
When I was a kid (60 years ago) I never remember them calling off school for a snow storm. If the busses didn't run there were less farm kids in class. Everyone else walked or snowshoed to school. You could put your snowshoes in your locker. We also brought our shotguns to school and put them in our lockers so we could go hunting after school. They sometimes made a tunnel through the snow from the parking lot to the school entrance. I used to marvel at this and realized even as a youngster that this was really something. When spring came they shoveled the top off and it was a trench with snow stairs leading up and down. We don't routinely get snow like this anymore and now they haul it away. Everyone used to drive around with colored balls on their car antennas so you could see them at intersections over the snow banks. The snowbanks are cut down with giant augers and hauled away in dump trucks several time a winter now. No fun at all. In the good old days one of my friends tried to get to class after a big storm buried his house. He threw his snowshoes out the kitchen window, and then jumped out himself. He had difficulty with the snowshoes as he was swimming around in the deep snow. He lived on a hill and after going downhill for half a block he came to a cross street where the wind was blowing down and had piled up a 10 foot high drift. He tried to climb it but gave up, skipped school and went home. One time our water pipers froze in our basement after it had been -20 to -40 F for a over a week. That was the time they cancelled school at a small towns about 40 miles away because it was isolated and the population was spread out in the boondocks and everyone was bussed in. I remember they said it was -67F and none of the busses would start. I think that must have been with the wind chill but it was a long time ago and all I remember the -67F. Sounds like BS, even to me, but it happened back in my fading memory.
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It wasn't that cold actually more windy than cold.Nice! ...but makes me cold just lookin' at it!
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As long as you go at an easy pace the thin tires I think ride better on snow covered streets but if your riding on trail roads a wider tire is better. I've been wanting to try studded tires, might be a little better, but having coaster brakes makes balancing the stops a lot of fun...
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Cool pics & cool stories but you didn't say where your from... I'd love to ride my bike in that first picture...Real nice bike, I am envious. However, storm? Around here they don't even bother to plow when we get that much snow. If we get that much for several days in a row they may reluctantly get the plows out. They are worse at plowing this year as the city quit plowing parts of the bike path and some of the sidewalks I used to ride on. The streets have been way too snow covered and mushy for bicycle riding for about 2 weeks now. It snowed all morning today and we got about the same as in your picture but it is 4F and windy. I'm not kidding, no one here even notices the amount of snow you got. Most people don't even shovel or plow it, just drive or walk over it. Each neighborhood has one or two uptight types that leaf blow and sweep their walks and driveways at the first flake. I just drive over it and chop all the ice off in the spring. Too busy fussing with bikes to get caught up in something as mundane as shoveling snow, unless I have to. Usually its the women folks that make me drop the bicycles and go out and help them shovel. Hey, my wife just came in from shoveling and didn't call me out, she knows I would tell her "doesn't need it".
2010 storm, but we really haven't had a real house smothering blizzard for awhile.
After heavy snows you have to shovel off the roof. The Mall in Sault Ste. Marie collapsed about 20 years ago after it smothered everything. The prison staff was stuck for 2 days: they couldn't get home and couldn't get to work so they just stayed at work.
When I was a kid (60 years ago) I never remember them calling off school for a snow storm. If the busses didn't run there were less farm kids in class. Everyone else walked or snowshoed to school. You could put your snowshoes in your locker. We also brought our shotguns to school and put them in our lockers so we could go hunting after school. They sometimes made a tunnel through the snow from the parking lot to the school entrance. I used to marvel at this and realized even as a youngster that this was really something. When spring came they shoveled the top off and it was a trench with snow stairs leading up and down. We don't routinely get snow like this anymore and now they haul it away. Everyone used to drive around with colored balls on their car antennas so you could see them at intersections over the snow banks. The snowbanks are cut down with giant augers and hauled away in dump trucks several time a winter now. No fun at all. In the good old days one of my friends tried to get to class after a big storm buried his house. He threw his snowshoes out the kitchen window, and then jumped out himself. He had difficulty with the snowshoes as he was swimming around in the deep snow. He lived on a hill and after going downhill for half a block he came to a cross street where the wind was blowing down and had piled up a 10 foot high drift. He tried to climb it but gave up, skipped school and went home. One time our water pipers froze in our basement after it had been -20 to -40 F for a over a week. That was the time they cancelled school at a small towns about 40 miles away because it was isolated and the population was spread out in the boondocks and everyone was bussed in. I remember they said it was -67F and none of the busses would start. I think that must have been with the wind chill but it was a long time ago and all I remember the -67F. Sounds like BS, even to me, but it happened back in my fading memory.
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Da Yoopers. It is going to be -20 F tonight with 70% chance of snow, yeah. Here is a picture of my bike last March. Thats the bike in the background on the right. It is discouraging to go Green Bay in March and see people in shorts, only to travel 2 hours north and run into a snow storm. We all moan in the car when we run into the snow again, but only in the spring. By then all the snow banks start looking the same.
Close up of the bike in the same spot as the above picture.
Here is the all time record low snowfall for the Keweenaw in the U.P.
Here is the old record: 390 some.
The snow thermometer in the picture only went to 1992. I couldn't find any pictures with the new top added to show the new record.
Where I live 160 inches is more likely but we have gotten close to 300 a few times.
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