This thread has sure turned out to be a lot of fun and dang interesting.
Alternatives: back about 1970, I did a trip into British Columbia on the Kawsasaki 500 and ran into a couple in a Lotus Super 7 from Edmonton - it was their only car, and they drove it year 'round. They had the electrically heated pieces of glass that you stick onto the inside of the windshield with suction cups to handle the defrosting, and you could see through the left rear fender because the studs on their winter tyres had worn through from the inside.
I got quite chilly going over the continental divide up by Jasper, Alberta, on that trip and opened the bike about to about 100 mph when I dropped into BC and warmed up - the old triples don't have great brakes or handling but the road was twisty and I was warm, and finally had the brains to slow down when I saw the highway sign warning about cattle wandering on the road.
I used to have a spare windshield wiper arm and blade in the BugEye for wiping the inside of the windshield when caught out in the rain with no top (or choosing to wiper both sides of the windshield rather than stopping to put the top up).
One of the neighours has a sidecar rig; the owner of the BMW motorcycle shop I used to go had a sidecar for his rottweiler.... It was labelled 'Bruno's Ride', and Bruno used to play pull toy with Dave's 3 year old granddaughter.
And a Chinook hit today - snow melting; sloppy roads with liquid snow running in the gutters; temperature up to about +4 c (39F) this afternoon. Turns out that the -46.1C in Edmonton that I mentioned at the start of this thread made Edmonton airport the coldest place on the planet for a few hours, then another place in Siberia 'won'.
Doug