Where I live it has been too cold to ride since the beginning of December; first snow was in the second week of the month. As it happens, it is now the end of March and it is still freezing with the occasional flurries. Is there no end to this winter?
In general, there is a winter period of three months when there is no motorcycle riding happening due to legal reasons where I live in Canada. Where it is not technically prohibited to ride a motorcycle during winter, the time between 15th December and 15th March is a period when all vehicles must use winter tires. For one, there are no winter tires for motorcycles. And then, even if there is supposedly a certain German company actually producing such tires, and if one can find the correct size for a the motorcycle, it just does not make sense to ride a motorcycle in the ice and snow. That's unless you ride a motorcycle with a sidecar, wearing furs and a gas-mask, with a rifle strapped to the back: that's just badass... oh I am sorry; too much cold and too long without a motorcycle is enough to push a man into a post-apocalyptic motorcycling delirium.
Matter of fact is, the winter tire period here is quite accurate and more often than not, it is impossible to ride a motorcycle due to icy conditions up until April here; well beyond the time when we are theoretically allowed to ride out. This often makes for up to 1/3rd of the year without motorcycling. To people living in the south this might sound outrageous, but to many Canadians this is reality. And despite all that, there are still thousands of people here right now, waiting for another week or two when it will be just warm enough and windless enough to finally take out to the roads on two wheels again. My ninja 250 can't wait and neither can I.
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