winter bliss

so I'm asked by quite a few of you guys about how i can stand the long winters and cold weather. It's actually pretty darn easy to cope, you just need to improvise with your recreation a little bit. So i try, this past weekend i decided to try the Pugsley out at on a frozen Como Lake. I've been meaning to try it but i really wanted to let the lake REALLY freeze over before i attempted it.....so i patiently waited, the ice fisherman reports had ice depths at an average of 18" thick. Hmmmmm, sounds thick. However, the first thing i noticed was how most of the fishing spots were consistently located near the shoreline. And personally i had an urge to cross the lake at the middle, an approx 3/4 mile crossing. It's not really that far until you look down and you see a bunch of surface cracks !! Yikes.... knowing that the ice was holding firm and it could easily hold your weight plus some just isn't comforting enough. Those damn cracks made a 3/4 mile journey seem more like 10 and i pedaled like mad on my maiden voyage across it. Exciting, but butt puckering scary. It seems the pugs just keeps finding more and more ways to entertain. As for the traction....it's actually pretty damn impressive at just how much traction those massive tires have. No need for studs, just deflate the psi down to about 15psi and let'r rip.