The old machine wintered well! It still had 30 PSI in both tires! (Seems the tires on my cars aren't even that good.)
First mod: CCM pickup truck. AKA wicker basket on the rat trap. 100% more useful!
However the singlespeed made it -100% useful to start with, so we're really just getting back to zero on the utility scale.
But now I have an inexplicable desire to pedal to a market and buy some French bread.