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klaviator

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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2014, 02:30:33 PM »
It usually doesn't get that cold in Alabama but this has been a tough winter.  I still manage to ride fairly regularly.  However, I did go for a few days without riding and was starting to suffer from PMS and SIDS.

What's that?

Check out the full story here: http://bamarides.com/ride/ride-reports/ride-for-the-cure-riding-to-cure-pms-and-sids/
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2014, 02:50:03 PM »
Klaviator,  Thanks for the morning laugh and for those great pictures.

I am suffering here also. I bought a new Xciting 500RI ABS going on 3 weeks ago and have only been able to put 40 miles on it. The Wing and the NT haven't moved either.

Sam:)
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2014, 04:54:43 PM »
Quote from: klaviator on February 09, 2014, 02:30:33 PM
It usually doesn't get that cold in Alabama but this has been a tough winter.  I still manage to ride fairly regularly.  However, I did go for a few days without riding and was starting to suffer from PMS and SIDS.

What's that?

Check out the full story here: http://bamarides.com/ride/ride-reports/ride-for-the-cure-riding-to-cure-pms-and-sids/

     If our roads here looked like that, I would bundle up and ride a little myself. Unfortunately our roads here (Syracuse, NY) are all white from road salt. I won't ride until we get a good rain storm to wash them off. Hurry up spring!
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2014, 08:15:30 PM »
Klaviator, that's too funny. I hope I don't get either, they both sound like terrible afflictions and I may just have to start up a ride down here in Australia to help support the cause.
I'll let you know how it goes.

Cheers :)
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2014, 02:29:19 AM »
We have had unusually cold weather here but very little snow.  We did get a break from the cold so I went for a ride to check out a waterfalls a few hours away.

It was partially frozen.



More pics, a video and details on the ride are here: http://bamarides.com/ride/planned-rides/ride-in-n-alabama-saturday-2114/30/
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2014, 11:44:47 PM »
We've been having wonderful weather lately. Last week it was a little cold (for us) with highs only in the 60's, but this weekend it was absolutely wonderful with temps in the low 70's, and this coming weekend it is forecasted to be in the mid 80's. Put on about a hundred mile on Saturday, and another 100 today.






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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2014, 01:41:09 AM »
..dang, I Love That Scoot, alphaB...

...this is the first image I ever saw of one..

..they weren't available in the states then...



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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2014, 01:49:14 AM »
I just filled the woodstove for the night.. I got home from my indoor silhouette shooting shooting league and the thermometer was bouncing between 0 and 1F for the last mile.

I can't wait to complain about heat again.. :)
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2014, 01:56:06 AM »
and the thermometer was bouncing between 0 and 1F for the last mile.

...dang.....screw that!!...enough of that!!!
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2014, 02:00:17 AM »
Quote from: wordslinger on February 11, 2014, 01:56:06 AM
and the thermometer was bouncing between 0 and 1F for the last mile.

...dang.....screw that!!...enough of that!!!

Agreed..
But last week I was just north of Gulfport, MS and I got snowed on.. The locals blamed me for the weather. :)
And Wednesday I'm flying down to Savannah, GA and I see it's supposed to be 34F that night.. I'm sure it's my fault. :)
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2014, 02:02:37 AM »
..ummm..

Wednesday night in savannah is apt to be messy...

..we have a winter storm forecast in the southeast this week...
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« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2014, 02:08:42 AM »
I'd heard.

I drive in snow and ice everyday, but it's those who don't that scare me..

All I have to do is make it to the hotel and the paper mill.. I've been to both several times. Later in the week I'll get some good coastal food and be jealous of the folks I see around me on 2 wheels.

Someday that 3' of white crap will melt in my yard and I can get bikes out again. :)
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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2014, 02:13:11 AM »
..well, at least you're getting out of the ccoolldd, occasionally...

..my friend Carol lives in Minnesota, she's been homebound pretty much all winter, I think...
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« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2014, 02:21:33 AM »
The further north you go, they better they are with snow.
I was in Becker, MN a couple weeks ago and we got about 4-5" of snow in the morning. By 11am the roads looked like it hadn't snowed. They're professionals with snow removal..  8)

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Re: Cold weather:(
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2014, 02:25:54 AM »
..yeah, 2.5" of snow shut Atlanta down a cpl weeks ago...

..the governor of Ga. has already declared a State Of Emergency for 17 counties for th' next cpl of days...
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