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Black ice will be the biggest problem , Is this racism?as it's not easily visible, on a white background it is.The rest you can compensate for by riding cautiously like a speedway rider?.I used to ride all year round in the UK before I moved to Canada ,it wasn't always fun What?, living amongst Canadians? ,but I did it and the only part that scared me was riding when it was snowing heavily ,the effect of the snowflakes in the headlight was disorienting .These days ,with electric suits  , Have these replaced the 'electric chair'? the cold isn't too bad .The key factor is to stay warm, not what Joan of Arc said ,then you'll be alert, be alert, the world needs 'lerts' .Plus take up the offers of hospitalty !Buy a van ? Only to transport your 'dirt bikes' Not on your nelly ! not suprised,shes now 82 years old!
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The real problem I can see is that the original poster may not have not have the 'right' riding gear for the temperatures he will encounter in Europe, being he has travelled from Asia, and after riding from there and surviving, his riding ability is not in question
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The Electric jacket as Torture
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Provide your victim with a newly made and particularly poweful electric jacket. Send him on a trip to the far north in February where he will become accustomed to a cold dry climate. Return him towards the ferry allowing a final night in Amsterdam where he will take in slightly too much of the local culture  chug. Dehydrated, with a hacking cough he will feel cold  due to the wet air and will stupidly wear the heater next to his skin. Halfway to the ferry he will turn off the jacket as it burns  .
24 hours later, place the unfortunate in a room with his wife. While talking of Reindeer and scenes of fantastic whiteness he will remove his shirt to reveal eight red marks spaced at the exact intervals of the wires in the heated jacked across his back  . These also match the spacing of the finger nails on some imagined lady of negotiable virtue from the street next to the bar you were in.  .
Cruel and Unusual punishement will follow
On a serious note, take care with heated kit. It really does turn hard work into fun and according keep you awake and safer. Stand on the plug or have the wiring go phut though and you are back to what you are wearing. You need to have enough on to make it safely without the gadgets.
Andy
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