37 °F out with the LIKE200iLX

[Stig / Major Tom]

Heading out it was 39 °F....then, as usual, the temp drops a bit right at sunrise.
Heated gloves and layered under a hi-viz rain over-jacket worked well enough.

It had been a few days since I've started the LIKE200i - and once again I had to smile at how instantaneous this scoot's EFI fires up!
Almost as though you need to only 'think' about touching the start button! ...and settles quickly into a smooth idle.
The village is painting the streets for tomorrow's fall street fair. Blocking out spaces for the booths. Fair weather tomorrow will see thousands flow into town.



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nice ride - but still fuming about one Cro-Magnon Ohioan in a P-up who tried to hit me as I pulled into my neighborhood after my ride*.

Stig

* have rec'd an invite from a Vespa owner to join in on two group rides in the area.
Thank you but no - I see way too many aggressive drivers in Ohio to be out in daylight in anything but my extra-long Chevy truck! Just the ride over to the start, in Dayton, would be ....unpleasant.

(Neil, dug out my Japanese 'heat turtleneck' for this ride!)

[Iahawk]

that seems cold for this time of year...and I understand about the danger of riding in your own neighborhood. I always start out through my neighborhood to warm the bike/scoot up and do a few hard stops to get the brakes warm, too. A certain sex driving extra large sport utility vehicles seem to be oblivious to anything in their path...my most near misses have always occurred in my neighborhood at 25 mph.

[Neil955i]

No turtleneck yet here Stig. I was out Friday in 8c temperatures and used the heated grips, but still warm enough in my DXR* leather jacket over just a tee shirt!  Soon enough I fear it will be more layers needed.

* Recently bought some DXR short waterproof boots to match the jacket and I’m still breaking them in. Hoping the side zip will make putting them on easier, although currently they’re so rigid I’m still needing to unlace them as well.