heh - funny you should mention the "work truck" look, not only is it at work but the packs are filled with bike parts, the black plastic bag stickin' out of the far one is the panels for the tank (brought in to be welded)... and a thermos filled w/coffee ofc
Defo not a hangar queen, part of why I ride it so relentlessly is it's always been sort of a "test platform" - to see just how much these lil el'cheapo engines can deal with. Surpassing my expectations quite a while ago, I felt comfortable dumpin' "real" money, time, and effort into the next phase of the experiment - the Rollfast
The only problem I've run into with the Schwinn is the road salt is doin' a number on the Walmart "Shimano" components - not unexpected really *shrug*
It's true I'm gettin' just a bit long in the tooth myself, I'm not nearly as resilient as I usta be - it's prolly a dang good call on yer part refraining from playin' in the snow. While I've been fortunate and not had a major accident - riding in conditions like that it's a forgone conclusion, just a matter of time before I dump it. At less than a walking speed and on a slight turn the rear wheel kicked out (ice) and I stomped my left foot down to catch myself. At the time nothing hurt - I didn't even fall, but my lower back was screwed for three days ffs. Still - snow riding is doin' wonders for my less than impressive bicycle ridin' skills heh
I hate gettin' old... but the alternative is ofc even less attractive
I'm somehow not surprised you'd be crazy 'nuff to have ridden yer Harley in the winter lol, wish I coulda been there w/ya as I too usta do the same (for almost a decade, various Japanese bikes tho), got a buddy that had an ol' BMW R100 w/a sidecar in Vermont that raised his family usin' it for the daily driver year-round - we'd have made one
heck of a weird "Polar Bear MC Club" FTW, our epic frozen beards terrorizing the locals and exciting the wimminz (well... mebbe jus' terrorizing them too heh).
Those
lights of yers are ossum - the front mebbe a lil too bright when it's snowing
heavy as I have shut it off bfore to avoid the trippy "Star Trek warp-speed" effect... but that's hardly a complaint, and it was comin' down so hard that lights one way or 'nother really didn't make much difference. It did suggest to me that perhaps I erred and should have used a three-way switch as to run
just the taillight for safety... but the nice thing is that in such conditions I'm often catching up with what little traffic is on the roads - but it's also tru that snowplows scare the bejabbers outa me