Sounds like your snow biking credentials are genuine. I was in Ironwood, MI, near the WI border, on April 1 many years ago & have never seen so much snow in my life. They said it was spring because they had half the roads in town open.
dougP (NOT a winter guy at all) On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:46:30 AM UTC-7, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > Brian formerly of MN makes some salient points about the apocalyptic > weather hereabouts. I rode an Atlantis as my main/only bike for several > years in Minnesota, so it stands to reason that a suitably equipped > Bombadil should be fit for occasional duty in hurricane conditions. > > In case my "Yoopanese" heritage isn't obvious, I grew up in Upper > Michigan, which is justifiably noteworthy for long hard winters and rugged > desolation, and where the "gales of November" were immortalized in a well > known song. I have funny memories of my Grandfather sitting by the wood > stove in his easy chair watching the daily horrors on the evening news. If > some tropical place endured a hurricane or California got shook up by an > earthquake, he'd say "we got it pretty goddamned good here", seemingly > oblivious to the hardship of the 10 feet of snow falling outside the > window, the preceding summer of hard labor in laying in enough firewood to > survive the winter, or the often impassable 60 miles of 2-lane highway > between his house and the nearest grocery store (grocery trips usually > required a week of planning...) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ofpdUmFKGLMJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
