Originally Posted by Leisesturm

I wonder if you really know just what kind of road rage doing such a thing would elicit. Personally if things were cold enough to result in ice ANYWHERE on the road I would not be out and about on a bike unless it had studded tires. Wouldn't it SUCK to be controlling that lane and WHAM you go down right in front of the F-150 who has been riding your six for the last several minutes who has cursed your entire family tree all the way back to the Mayflower. The same ice that dropped you caused his already slow reaction to your fall ... ... nope ... Icy shoulder (i.e. road), narrow passage, that's a "take the sidewalk (on foot) situation in my book.