Winter riding - sidecar or Jeep?
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From: S'mee on 26 Jul 2010 12:37 On Jul 26, 10:17 am, sean_q <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote: > It looks as though we'll be here in this RV park for the winter > (no $ for snowbirding). It's over a kilometer to the nearest > bus stop, too far for the g/f to walk. So we'll need our own > transportation, and my concern is the snow. > > The snow we get here (Vancouver, Canada) is wet, slushy > and slippery. Also highly variable. Last winter there was > only one snowfall, about 2". The year before that it started > snowing in mid-December (of '08) and kept up for about 6 weeks. > It piled up until the roads looked like white canyons. I even > saw a coyote boldly walking along a residential street > in the middle of town one morning on my way to work. > > Cars were stranded all over the place. At the time I had > a van with front wheel drive so the motor's weight over > the drive wheels helped a lot. > > Now we have a '90 Toyota Corolla which I expect will soon > become useless due to its low ground clearance if the snow > piles up like it did in early '09. > > My Dnepr sidecar rig is only 1 wheel drive and I don't know > the maximum snow pack it will handle. It did fine in 2" > except on the steeper hills but I'm not sure if it would > have handled the winter of '08/09. I've seen WW2 pix of > the Eastern Front with sidecar rigs like mine stuck > in deep snow. > > So I thought about getting a small 4WD Jeep, YJ or TJ > (probably financing it by selling or trading the Magna/sidecar, > worth maybe Cdn $5k). > > I don't know much about Jeeps; which models to go for > and what to avoid. I think I'd be ok with 4 cyls as we > expect to use it only in town or short day tours > around the local mountains. > > Are there any Jeep experts here? Should we think about > getting one elevated bigfoot-style with big tires for > more ground clearance? > > TIA, SQ Get a mule. ;^) If all else fails you can send it for help.
From: Futility Man on 26 Jul 2010 12:45 On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:37:27 -0700 (PDT), "S'mee" <stevenkeith2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Get a mule. ;^) If all else fails you can send it for help. ....or eat it. -- Futility Man
From: sean_q on 26 Jul 2010 13:10 S'mee wrote: > Get a mule. ;^) If all else fails you can send it for help. Better yet, I can send one of The World's Goofiest Penguins like the statue in your town, species _Coneheadus redbeakis_. SQ
From: Vito on 26 Jul 2010 14:56 sean_q wrote: >> >> Are there any Jeep experts here? Should we think about >> getting one elevated bigfoot-style with big tires for >> more ground clearance? Not unless you are planning some serious off-road excersions. http://jeepin.com/ Try rec.autos.jeep for expertese >> >> TIA, SQ
From: Futility Man on 26 Jul 2010 15:32
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:17:31 -0700, sean_q <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote: >So I thought about getting a small 4WD Jeep I have what you need. I'm currently rebuilding a 1968 Rokon Trail Breaker, a 2WD motorcycle. -- Futility Man |