[SpudRider]

Originally Posted by Reveeen

...I *think*, like a Miata, they would be summer use only (locally), they just aren't built heavy enough to resist corrosion, or I should say, corrode in a controlled fashion from the crap put on the roads here in the winter. The frames are no heavier than body metal with plenty of places to retain the corrosive materials the local government puts on the road in the attempt to melt the ice and snow.

OK. Now I can surmise the "Orbital Platform" is somewhere in either Canada, the Northeast, Midwest, or Northcentral United States. They don't use road salt anywhere west of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S.A.

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