I believe I saw Jim Carrey doing this in Dumb and Dumber. Perhaps that is a good indication, but i’m being serious
Maybe I could stud the tires? Of course I couldn’t go offroading. I’ll be living in Colorado so the roads would sometimes be icy as well. Perhaps my biggest problem would be not being heavy enough, but I don’t plan on needing to go fast. Maybe 30-40 tops. I expect the roads to be plowed in my area.
Maybe the biggest thing to worry about would be the cost of insurance. Does anyone have knowledge concerning this?
I live in Denver and ride a vespa (64 GL) almost year round. Today it’s going to be about 38 for a high, so that would be too cold, but I’ve ridden in the 40s regularly. I have a couple of friends who’s scooters are their only means of transport and they ride buses when it get’s really cold or snowy. All told there may be a month or two where riding would be a bad idea.
Good Luck!
A lot will depend on what part of Colorado. Many Denverites assume they are Colorado. Nothing could be further from the truth. When I lived in Denver, I bicycled year around with maybe seven days to two weeks (on the outsitde) off for snow storms and sleet.
I now live in the high country of the Western Slope. I can’t do that now.
I probably should explain that the Western Slope is the west side of Colorado (west of the Continental Divide - so from there it slopes to the west. On the other side [the Eastern Slope - or as the people there like to say, the Front Range since anything they are looking at is obviously the “front”], it slopes to the east).
TV Time I used to live in Steamboat Springs when in high school, shovelling ~4 feet of snow off of business sidewalks early in the morning, so i know it gets bad I was just wondering if the bike could handle it safely.
I’ll be living in [deleted on request], so these tips about the weather are helpful.
Boulder has it’s own weather sometimes, due to the Flatirons ending right at the edge of town. What I mean is, you can’t always rely on the Denver weather report. One day in 1997 or 98, I saw it go from high 60’s to low 30’s in about 7 hours!
In the three years we were there, I could count on one hand the number of bad storms we had. Snow usually didn’t stick to the ground, even when we got a lot. Boulder has a lot of hills though, and that can make a difference. The biggest problem was ice on the roads, not snow, but we usually only had one or two good freezes every winter (more than one or two days).
Where ya gonna be? We were on 29th off of Baseline (kind of behind the Denny’s), so hubby walked to CU and I drove to Pearl St every day. We only had a rear-wheel drive truck, but I only got stuck once in three years (on a hill, of course… wearing a dress and heels).
Oh, and to actually address the OP! There will be plenty of okay-but-really-friggin-cold Vespa days, but you will need some kind of weather back up, at least a few times.
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I used to ride my Yamaha scoot year-round in Vancouver, even on the rare days the temperature dipped below freezing. You just have a very sluggish start on those days, and you need to let the engine warm up for 3 minutes before you start moving.
