Winter tires?

**BarelyAWake** · #41 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 07:40 AM

NOOOOOOOoooo!!!

But... but... riding is too much fun to stop

Whereabouts in Maine are you? I'm in the Bath/Brunswick area.

chrisme · #42 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 07:46 AM

Damariscotta area. Do you work at Bath Cycle and Ski?

**BarelyAWake** · #43 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 07:52 AM

Nope - I wish lol Bike Parts yumm

Damariscotta eh? Nice... quiet lol About 20mi from me, OMG!!! Another MB whoohoo! I thought I was pretty much alone 'round here - shoulda known better.

Two of the techs at Bath Cycle & Ski have MBs - but apparently they never ride them

There's "some guy" in Lewiston that is supposedly sellin' them - but he's never answered my emails and I haven't made it there yet.

Humsuckler · #44 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 02:15 PM

ah venturi effect..... i forgot about that causing me grief... ill have to shroud my cylinder to direct heat to the carb body somehow......

my banshees always had the habit of sticking wide open when used to go field blasting in the light powder. thats what it was. hot engine melts snow dust from tires on its way past, venturi effect freezes the carbs like blocks of ice. a real pan in the you know what....

nice observation my friend

Blakenstein · #45 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 03:25 PM

I never get that prob. becuase I've got rear mount-motor also comes with plastic cover-system is designed so that fly wheel has turbine blades that circulate fresh air through cooling fins and also blow air directly into carb air cleaner intake.
My motor runs super great through the winter.

bairdco · #46 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 03:39 PM

you east coasters should organize a winter "death race" on an ice rink or a frozen pond.

that would be freaken awesome!

Humsuckler · #47 (**permalink**) 10-23-2009, 08:30 AM

how about we all just gather at tim hortons after the first major dump around lunchtime and try and go for a "rip" as we call driving anything on that kind of day.

death-ly ishrase we can call it

**BarelyAWake** · #48 (**permalink**) 10-23-2009, 09:28 AM

Canadians *chuckle*

oh wait...

justthisguy1292 · #49 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 10:51 AM

there might be a better thread for this but i couldn't find it. has anyone tried making a track system for the rear will? Ktraks makes one but it's $500. I'm hoping to cut up some old tires and stitch them into a flexible track that runs around my existing rear tire and then around an idler pulley that sticks out a couple feet behind the bike. I've recently moved onto a motorcycle so I want to put my motorized bicycle to good use over the winter.

george_n_texas · #50 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 12:13 PM

Well the rear of the bike's gonna probably clog up with snow IF you have enough power to rotate all that...I don't know how many HP a snowmobile has but I would think you'd have to at leaste have half as much for a bike. You are also gonna have some massive slippage much like we always hear belt drive folks have in rain. Good luck with it.