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The C-14, aka Kawasaki Concours-14, the new one :) => The Bike - C14/GTR 1400 => Topic started by: martin_14 on March 02, 2015, 01:49:16 PM
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Sunday was finally over with the winter pause. My bike is now registered and it hasn't snowed for one whole week. It even rained, washing the remaining snow and salt off the roads, and the temps have been a few degrees above freezing. Sunday and today was really bad weather, but tomorrow the forecast predicts clear sky and 45°F. Ohhh, I'm sooooo happy to listen to her after 3 months!!!
Party time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana
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Have fun and be safe.
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snowed again last night...another 6 inches, maybe if I am lucky April 1st I will be able to ride.
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55* and sunny here in S/E TN today (the forecast was for rain, LOL!).
I rode and rode and rode.
Hated to come back home, but I did. Sure beats work any day.
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Have fun! 80 here, but i'll be riding mine up into GA on Thursday...raining and brrrrr
heated suits for the win ;D
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The snow has not melted here from the last three snows and then freezing rain yesterday. And more ice coming Thursday. The most bike involved I have been is to keep going out and shoving off the frozen precipitation from the Cycle Shell. :(
This winter is brutal.
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Been cold and wet for the last week or so but looking up for next weekend. Should be back on the bike by Friday.
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:banana
Ya didn't use enough of 'em martin.
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I'm regretting I ever installed that banana...
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Sunday was finally over with the winter pause. My bike is now registered and it hasn't snowed for one whole week. It even rained, washing the remaining snow and salt off the roads, and the temps have been a few degrees above freezing. Sunday and today was really bad weather, but tomorrow the forecast predicts clear sky and 45°F. Ohhh, I'm sooooo happy to listen to her after 3 months!!!
Party time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana
Good for you Martin hope it goes according to plan. Ride safe.
Mines been parked since October. -19*c -30ish with windchill tonight. But With any luck if the forecast is correct by Thursday into the low numbers and near 10*c for next week. Need the ice in the alley to melt so I can get her out to the street.
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I'm regretting I ever installed that banana...
Peanut butta jelly with a baseball bat!
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The man with the sword has spoken. I shall attempt to refrain from over usage of the dancing banana. One for the road... :1DeadBanana
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2 feet of old snow on the ground here with 2" of new stuff on top. 2" of sleet and freezing rain with a tenth of an inch of ice predicted for today. No riding in sight in the near future for me. :'(
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Off today and it's wet. Cagers get crazy with wet roads, so not chancing it. FWIW, the banana is the best you have placed here, Jim... ;D
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I'm regretting I ever installed that banana...
Nothing wrong with a little potassium.
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come on, Jim! that banana was exactly the gif for my feelings yesterday. Anyway, the day started carefully because it was 30°F when I drove to work at 6 am, so I just got there and waited out (some calling "working" ;D). By the time I got out at around 4 in the afternoon, temps were in the upper 40s so instead of driving the 4 miles between work and home, strangely enough I got lost and ended up driving 70 miles!
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Today and tomorrow crappy weather again, but weekend looks very promising, with temps hitting 50 and nothing falling from the sky.
What I did notice is that I'm out of shape. I drove mostly a boxer bike during winter, and not much of it, just 600 miles or so, so I'm stiff and scared of finding some ice and slipping. Grip is definitely low and I can easily break traction just by twisting the throttle. Ahhh... self control... whatever that is...
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:)
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I'm regretting I ever installed that banana...
Nothing wrong with a little potassium.
Just a guess here but I think that you two are talking about two different types of installation methods... ;)
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:yikes: :battle:
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:rotflmao:
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Just a guess here but I think that you two are talking about two different types of installation methods... ;)
Jim may have "installed" the banana but Martin is NOT afraid to repeatedly insert it. Just an observation....... ::)
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Damn, but it's been a long winter.
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Calling for +10C here Sat. And I'm itching to bed in the new EBC HH pads and EBC rotors.
And the PR4s. Oh what the heck I just wanna ride my bike.
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Expecting it to be nice tomorrow, sunny and 50 degrees. Back on the bike. Sorry Jim but I just got to do it.
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:rotflmao: It's ok... I'm actually quite glad that someone uses them on occasion.
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I am just overjoyed that time changes back to something SANE on Sunday. Usable daylight at last, yay!!!! Now if I can just get rid of this freezing rain/sleet crap...
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:censored: :censored: government time.
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;D
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Usable daylight at last, yay!!!!
How does THAT work? :rotflmao: Are you somehow not allowed to see the daylight?
I have never understood how starting the day an hour later made any sense at all. It's like cutting a blanket in half and sewing it on the other end to make it longer. :loco: :nuts:
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Wow! I didn't know that you could make a blanket longer by doing that. Where's my scissors?
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FWIW, the head of the EPA, says she has no idea why this winter has been so bad or if the "GLOBAL WARMING" models were in anyway accurate. If she doesn't know, who the he!! does? Typical overpaid bureaucrat, heading a money grab ponzy scheme on the nation.
31 here now, but back into the 70's next week, with more evening daylight to ride. If I knew where the banana was, I'd put one here too... tp
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...and WTF does the EPA have to due with the weather anyway?
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...and WTF does the EPA have to due with the weather anyway?
I could answer that but don't want the thread to get booted to the arena.
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[ Usable daylight at last, yay!!!!]
How does THAT work? :rotflmao: Are you somehow not allowed to see the daylight?
Because I don't want or need daylight in the morning when I am asleep. I want it in the afternoon/evening when I get home from work. If I had my way, we would go on daylight savings time permanently and never change time again.
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Because I don't want or need daylight in the morning when I am asleep. I want it in the afternoon/evening when I get home from work. If I had my way, we would go on daylight savings time permanently and never change time again.
I understand your point but I believe we would be better off having the work day start earlier and end earlier. Businesses could do that on their own and keep the G out of another aspect of my life. The clocks are fine, people are the problem.
Just my 2 cents
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I understand your point but I believe we would be better off having the work day start earlier and end earlier. Businesses could do that on their own and keep the G out of another aspect of my life. The clocks are fine, people are the problem.
Just my 2 cents
Been around for a looooong time. Allowed farmers to spend more evening daylight hours in the field.
Today, Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used to save energy and make better use of daylight. The idea has been suggested in ancient times and later by famous scientists.
DST is a change in the standard time with the purpose of making better use of daylight and conserving energy.
Clocks are set ahead one hour when DST starts. This means that the sunrise and sunset will be one hour later, on the clock, than the day before.
Just gives me more time to ride after work, before it gets dark. Has to be why it was originally set into place, for bikers/riders.... tp
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If the powers that be were truly serious, work days would start at sunrise. In the summer the hottest part of the day is around 5:00pm. If air conditioners in large buildings were adjusted to a higher temp when everyone left at 2:00pm, it would make more sense. I loved working from 4:30am till 1:00pm. Off every Friday at 1makes for a good weekend.
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I understand your point but I believe we would be better off having the work day start earlier and end earlier. Businesses could do that on their own and keep the G out of another aspect of my life. The clocks are fine, people are the problem.
I believe time should not change, ever (and changing working hours isn't a great idea either). Studies has shown that it doesn't save energy, it doesn't help modern business/workers, it hurts productivity, hurts the economy, confuses people, makes scheduling and communications more difficult, and negatively impacts many people's health (some people, including me, have sleep problems and time changes can take months to adjust to each time).
Why we still change time is beyond me. Almost everyone I know hates it or at least doesn't care if it went away. However, there isn't agreement as to whether it should be stuck on standard time or daylight saving time. But sticking to either is MUCH better than what we do now.
Ug, I should be asleep now...
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One needs only watch Dr. Who to understand time and the lording of it.
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If the powers that be were truly serious, work days would start at sunrise. In the summer the hottest part of the day is around 5:00pm. If air conditioners in large buildings were adjusted to a higher temp when everyone left at 2:00pm, it would make more sense. I loved working from 4:30am till 1:00pm. Off every Friday at 1makes for a good weekend.
+1 :thumbs: