Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 06, 2021

If you need a snow brush for a motorcycle, you are storing in wrong.

I’m sitting here wondering what it must be like to live in a place where you can BRUSH the snow off your windows. Mind you, MOST of the snow that I deal with just drips off by itself because “rain”.

It is set to rain in Paris this week – se have very little snow in France (except at high altitude of course), but it often comes very late in the season.

Oh darn. A multiple choice comic test. I didn’t prepare for this.

Dad might be a bit tricky, if he’s convinced the kid that not carrying a snow brush is a deal breaker for a bike.

She’s tougher than I am, if she’ll keep riding after snow flies.

If he takes the snow brush out of the car and puts it “somewhere safe”, he may not remember where “somewhere safe” is when he needs it again.

Ok, answer me this (hopefully we have motorcyclists on hand). I’m a cyclist and I ride in traffic wherever it’s legal to do so. Frazz (Jef) is a cyclist. It seems odd to me that a guy who pedals his spandex clad rear on a 6.5kg bike would refer to motorcycles as “especially risky”.

I confess that I went to my car to check. My brush/scraper is a one-piece SUV unit that sits year-round next to my seat. It’s neither in my way nor that of a rear passenger. Who is writing this stuff?

I never take my snow brushes out of my cars. When on my motorcycle, I just used my finger. My riding gloves had a little plastic squeegee build into them.

I can recall some rare but fierce May snow storms

It take up almost no space in the trunk, and you don’t have to remember to put it back in November.

When I was teaching and I needed access to large easel size pads of paper and construction paper and drawing paper and sharpies and other stuff I just kept it all in my car trunk. It was easier than hauling it up to my apartment. My fellow workers referred to my trunk as my basement.

d) My uncle was a neurosurgeon and he did not discourage me from buying/riding a motorcycle, “but if you ever crash at 2 in the morning and hit a guardrail, don’t call me.” That, combined with the fact that the one time I DID ride — a 125cc trailbike — I hit the gas instead of the brake, then hit a telephone pole and dad had to pay the damage I did to the kid’s bike. First time, last time.

In a pinch, a car can be cleaned of snow and ice with the edge of a credit card. I assume a motorcycle can be too.

If you need a snow brush on a motorcycle…you’re riding way too long into the winter.

April? In Colorado, the snow brush / ice scraper gets moved to the trunk on Memorial Day, goes back up front on Labor Day…

When I lived in Cheyenne in the early ’80s snow brushes (and shovels) were sometimes needed in May …

There’s room for a tooth brush on a motorcycle for bug removal, at least according to Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

We were being hailed and got some snow delivered.

I don’t see what risk-averse has to do with having a snow brush.

I live in Michigan…ride a motorcycle from April to October. Only had 1 accident so far. Had several close calls…I wear a helmet always, jeans, bright yellow jacket, vest, gloves. Ride to work often (7 miles round trip), and go riding with friends whenever possible. That one accident gave me a mildly separated shoulder, and couldn’t ride for a year. But like a bicycle, you get back on and keep going. If you quit every time you got hurt, you might as well stay home in a bubble.

Today, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, as I seat and watch the heavy, wet snow fall outside, I think this boy’s dad knows what he’s talking about.