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Yeah people dont tink outaide the box, or have low motivation.

I have mentioned bike riding to work, or using a motorcycle. And the usual response is "yeah but rain, and motorcycle season is only 6 months."

On a Dual-purpose for 10 years , and then super sport bike for a few years I rode in our Canadian winters.

Our city ploughed and salted. You use caution going over a black ice patch. No sudden brake or acceleration. You screw sheet metal hex head screws into a bottom of your work boots, so that you have traction if your feet have to come down on a slippery part of the road during a stop. Freezing rain on the road, means 1st gear and feet down like skiis.

They sell carbide studded tires for bicycles. Rain wear. Balaclavas. Your breath freezes to your eyelashes instantly at -20°C. One danger, At -20°C the rubber reed in your airZ'ounds horn stops working, because the rubber diaphram is too rigid.

But I made it to work and back for years, when some others called in stranded because their cars couldn't get out of the driveway their cars.

I only had 1 day out of those years where it snowed 4 inches and then started melting and icing underneath. It was too slippery to even walk in, so that day I phoned for a car ride.