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Hello Jean. Assuming you are monitoring this post I was wondering as I would think the rest of the membership is how Earl is doing. Still praying for him BTW.

There is an old saying, although I don't think it was from a Chinaman. You ride on a Honda, but you ride in a Yamaha.

Cowpuc will swear by the Shinkos. I would agree, especially if you are a few k a year guy. If you need a lot of miles in a year then maybe higher priced tires. But I have got very good service for my $$ with the Shinkos.

I got lucky and found a guy parting out a Ural local; purchased spare front & pusher wheels and mounted winter soft knobby duel-sport tires. I run hard street rubber during the summer and swap over in 20-min for winter & off-road riding with my KLR owning buddies. Last year I may have caused an accident or two of people taking pictures while taking a quick ride to get gas for the snowblower in the middle of a 10" snow storm.

During the big snow storm we had here in 1976, I put on my snowmobile suit and rode my 250 Can Am TNT, with trials tires, 24 KM (15 Mi) through the snow ranging from 1 to 1.5 feet deep, to work and was the only one to make it in. The bike went through that snow like it wasn't even there and was actually an enjoyable ride. On the other hand, the way home after they plowed the roads, was a nightmare. A lot of the sections had a hard packed white glaze which was almost as bad as riding on ice. Probably would have been worth my while to run some hex head sheet metal screws into the lugs like we did when ice riding but it never occurred to me until I got home.

@bpate4homeThat is a nice looking bikE. It is also the type of bike I would be comfortable riding through snow. It might actually be a lot more fun than a heavy cruiser. It is the type of bike I’d like to install a sidecar. Below is my pic, when I took a vacation back home in the Philippines. Ooops. Forgot my drink.