After reading "The Baron in Winter" I decided to ride the Vespa today to finish up some shopping errands. The driveway is still a solid block of smooth ice from the ice pellet storm a few days ago. I had to carefully walk the scooter to the street and drier pavement. The temperature was a balmy 27 degrees and a clear blue sky. The picture shows the ice that I departed from....
The roads were mostly dry but I had to be wary of those sudden patches of snow and ice that seem to always appear on turns. I saw a big sheet of ice come off the top of an SUV about 100 yards ahead of me---glad I was not right behind it when that mass sailed onto the road.
Riding was wonderful. The scooter needs some cleaning so the salt spray doesn't do too much harm so I will figure out what to do with that. Stopped to fill up the tank--- 2 bucks!
Made it to three different stores, bought everything I wanted to get including three new pairs of jeans. Everything fit nicely under the seat or in a bag hanging from the seat.
I'll keep thinking about that riding in real snow. Not quite up to that yet.
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If you really want to ride in some seriously cold and snowy weather you'll want to have a look at the snowmobile gear. It will keep your warm and dry.
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