The word of the day is ice. I went out walking in Wheelerville on our trails and had a hard time standing on Sunday. I have done a lot of thinking and talking with other clubs and have come to the conclusion that we are going to need to add some thing to our tracks to make it safe to get back on the trails when we get some snow if we don’t loose all the ice and then start over.
I went down to Cavendish and looked at their Tucker. They have these ice cleats that are bolted on the tracks. The Chittenden club has them also. They make the ride a lot ruffer and your speed has to be slower, but slower and not sliding into some thing or over a bank is a good thing. We would need 12, 6 for each of the rear tracks. They cost $200.00 per cleat which makes the total $2400.00. I need to know what the club wants to do. Maybe some one has another idea, I am open to other ideas. I do know that the Tucker will no go out as long as the ice is as bad as it is unless we do some thing because I do not want to damage it as that could be really costly!
Please give me your thoughts! Here are some photos of the cleats that I took on Sunday in Cavendish. The Tucker is at their cook shack on the Twenty Mile Stream Road outside so if any one wants to go and look for themselves it is right there.
There were riders around the Stone House this weekend as I saw on our face book page. So if you do go out Ride Safely and Ride Right and send photos!
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I’d just wait it out. It will eventually snow. You all take great care of the Shrewsbury trails. If it’s icy, stay in where it warm until it snows.