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    There might be a market for these

    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Most folks use fat tire bikes with studded tires to ride ice and do just fine. Added plus: no chance of getting your nuts ripped off in a crash

    "The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"

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    While in college in NE Indiana, which is peppered with lakes I raced on the ice--almost every weekend. I had tires with walnut shells embedded in the compound. I loved it when there was snow on the ice and they plowed the snow. Given enough time, those snow banks would harden up and I learned to use them like banked corners. I won a lot of races using that trick but on occasion I would get "unreasonably exuberant" and fly over the top of the snow bank. That normally resulted in me perched high and dry in the snow on the other side---and thoroughly stuck
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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