Sub-Zero Again / Monsoon

[modre]

So your riding season is much longer the ours here in VT?

we're still out Nov- mid Dec and get a day or 2 in January...down time is Jan-Feb-Mar...March- April breaks and last frost for planting is mid-late May.

we get 10 intermittent cold weeks..and some dreary rain...but for the most part it's a long pleasant spring, 3 weeks of miserable Florida tropics...a 80-85 degree month of dry, and a long pleasant fall.

you got some wicked mountains up there...high point here is 27-2800 ft...norm is 1500 ft. on the west slope. and it's coming from the west.

we get remnants of hurricanes...2 days of rain and gusts of anti-climatic...and we get a rare nor-easter left-over...but for the most part safe from extremes.

a zero night...I've also seen 25 below once...25-35 norm...summer hits 90 and I've seen 105......mostly it's light jacket...some naked...some wrapped, or forget it and park it.

personally I think nomadic man and the birds have it right...migrate with the seasons...but for those pesky possessions.

[JEnfield]

Hey Speed after I talked to you I had to go to the store Highway was clean no salt. I pulled the bike out and pluged the Ipod into the helmet gone 63 miles of James Taylor Pink Floyd and some John Lee Hooker what a rush. I am thinking clear and ready to get to work. Hey Tito you can wheelie a Bonneville you have to clutch drop it to get it up but it will wheelie. Alright i have to go clean the BVille talk to you all later.

Jimmy

[TonUp]

Jimmy!

I have never tried to wheelie a Bonnie, I did ride Marks Bonnie pretty hard on some back roads, and I was grinning the entire time.



Tito

[drlapo]

I have 3 1911s so it was time for a "wonder 9"
took it out to the range this weekend and was very pleased witht how it knocks down the plates, easy to get back on target
does not hit as hard as a 45 or a 40 but it is very controlable
if Hillary gets in 5000 rounds will not be nearly enough, time to start buying again just like the last time a Clkinton was in. luckily I still have some "Impeach Clinton" bumper stickers left
well we have discussed guns and politics, who's ready for religion?

[mark]

we're still out Nov- mid Dec and get a day or 2 in January...down time is Jan-Feb-Mar...March- April breaks and last frost for planting is mid-late May.

That's funny, you just described Burlington, VT.

Tito, maybe you just need to move a little closer to Lake Champlain, which seems to keep the temps slightly more moderate than further inland.

Most years I ride through November and still get out at least once a week through most of December (this year was an exception due to the unusually cold/snowy December we had). Inevitably there's a January thaw when it's possible to get out for a day or two, or more if you're lucky -- this year it was almost a full week. February is the month in which you're lucky if you're able to make it out even once, but then by mid-March you can usually start riding regularly again.

--mark

[LoVel]

Tito if you are really done with the cold you know you have friends in Alabama. We do ride year round and before you know it there will be pies available here year round also.

[Speedblastr]

Hey Speed after I talked to you I had to go to the store Highway was clean no salt. I pulled the bike out and pluged the Ipod into the helmet gone 63 miles of James Taylor Pink Floyd and some John Lee Hooker what a rush.

Jimmy

Wow , what a music combo. What was the temp.?

[JEnfield]

Speed it was 58 and windy blowing about 30 but I couldn't take it anymore. Hey Lovel is Bama still there after 36 twisters you guys alright down home?

Jimmy

[Hedge]

Fellas - your not going to believe this but today it actually hit 60 degrees in Stamford. If it wasn't raining I might have fired her up and rode if it wasn't for the fact that I would have to spend 3 hours cleaning her to re-store her. Snow coming tomorrow night.

[JEnfield]

Hedge I was in North Jersey today and it was 68 but it didnt hang around long temps drop to 44 on the ride home .

Jimmy

[Hedge]

Right you are Jimmy. It hovered between 58-60. It as colder working down inside my garage than outside. The temp is suppose to drop quickly today and a little snow tonight.

[LoVel]

Most of us are still here and most of us are okay. My thoughts go out to those of us who are not.

This is what happens when temps go up in the seventies in Alabama in February.

[Hedge]

Most of us are still here and most of us are okay. My thoughts go out to those of us who are not.

This is what happens when temps go up in the seventies in Alabama in February.

. . . and would Fuck You be out of place to say right now - up here in New England?

Oooops - I guess I stepped on my dick here didn't I? I didn't know about any twisters, I thought you were rubbing in the nice riding weather to us Northerners who are up here suffering! My humble apologies and may I now bow down and take 100 lashes to the back! I sincerely hope you and your peeps down there are safe and sound! This is what happens when the only thing you watch on TV and listen to on the radio is sport channels! I'm outta the loop!

[Speedblastr]

Most of us are still here and most of us are okay. My thoughts go out to those of us who are not.

This is what happens when temps go up in the seventies in Alabama in February.

36 Funnels ? must have missed that report. .....In the name of God , that's scary. Me no like twisters ! Glad you guys are in good shape.

[TonUp]

Tito if you are really done with the cold you know you have friends in Alabama. We do ride year round and before you know it there will be pies available here year round also.

I will be visiting you! My Alabama amigos!


Thanks!


Tito