Coldest ride

[Rhino]

Cold front coming here Wednesday!   

Oh man sign me up! The warmest I've seen in 4 days is 6 degrees.

[Cuda]

I live two hours south of Steve so it's even warmer here and I'm sick of it!
It IS December for God's sake.
Still have windows closed and the air on!

[phoneman]

  Got in a little ride of about 160 miles this am going to see a friend of mine in the VA hospital in Tuskeegee, Al.

  Heavy mist and rain on the way there.  The fog got so thick on the way home I could only see about 100 yards ahead.

  And cold as heck--it musta got down to 50 f or so.  It was terrible.

[maxtog]

I live two hours south of Steve so it's even warmer here and I'm sick of it!
It IS December for God's sake.
Still have windows closed and the air on!

Yeesh.   Hasn't been OVER 40F here in two days (nor have we seen the sun, nor has the mist/rain stopped).  I will be more than happy to trade you some of this stuff.

[B.D.F.]

Now that right there is truly scary. That isn't a cold front coming through, it is a less- ungodly period of kinda' warm. Whatch' got there is-

Today: too hot to ride
Sun: too hot to ride
Mon: too hot to ride
Tues: too hot to ride but less unpleasant walking out to the air conditioned car.
Wed: Warm for riding but OK in mesh gear that is light in color, and no sitting at stop lights in the full sun.
Thurs: Same as Wed. but the last of the less unpleasant weather in sight.
Fri: a harbinger of things to come and too hot to ride;  better stay inside.

Brian (who does not like it warm)

Cold front coming here Wednesday!   

[stevewfl]

Now that right there is truly scary. That isn't a cold front coming through, it is a less- ungodly period of kinda' warm. Whatch' got there is-

Today: too hot to ride
Sun: too hot to ride
Mon: too hot to ride
Tues: too hot to ride but less unpleasant walking out to the air conditioned car.
Wed: Warm for riding but OK in mesh gear that is light in color, and no sitting at stop lights in the full sun.
Thurs: Same as Wed. but the last of the less unpleasant weather in sight.
Fri: a harbinger of things to come and too hot to ride;  better stay inside.

Brian (who does not like it warm)

too hot to ride.... 

I ride in all weather conditions (+30,000 miles a year everywhere) and this is NICE compared to most I ride in 

too hot =



too cold =

[B.D.F.]

Yeah, but I am a temperature wuss. Hot, even warm by most people's standards, makes me miserable. I spent 4 or maybe 5 days one day in South Dakota watching my temp. gauge read 102.X and it was three clicks beyond horrible. But even 85 makes me uncomfortable and cranky.

Cold on the other hand, can be defended against. Not to say that 40 below zero is anything even remotely close to 'nice' but even down in the 20's F one can layer, cover and use heated gear against it.

Just call me Mary Jane Thermometerpants. :-)

Brian

too hot to ride.... 

I ride in all weather conditions (+30,000 miles a year everywhere) and this is NICE compared to most I ride in 

too hot =



too cold =

[Jim M.]

About 1982 I had a Suzuki GS 750. One morning it was -2F and I went out to just ride it around the block just to say "I did it." Unfortunately, the oil must have been the consistency of wax and the starter just groaned and wouldn't turn over. So right now my personal record is 14F.

[ZG]

Just call me Mary Jane Thermometerpants. :-)

 

[Teacher]

pottering around the North Pennines last easter in the UK. Roads were fantastic as was the scenery. First time I've done winter riding and it was fantastic.

[gPink]

Hey Teach, why is the temp in C but the miles are not Ks?

[Teacher]

Hey Teach, why is the temp in C but the miles are not Ks?

Hi
That's just the way the clocks are set; as far as I know I can change miles to km and centigrade to fahrenheit independently of each other, but centigrade and miles are what we work in over in the UK- all weather forecasts are given in centigrade these days

 

[gPink]

Haven't completely embraced the metric system yet? 

[Boomer]

In the UK we use the metric system,.... except where we don't.
Beer is served in pubs in Pints but in cans & bottles in millilitres, 568ml to be exact which equals 1 UK pint.
(We don't have little girly pints like y'all do) 
Gas is sold in litres but we use Miles Per Gallon to measure fuel economy.
If I go to a lumber yard and buy a piece of 8'x4' it is actually 240cm x 120cm (slightly smaller than 8x4)
McDs still sell Quarterpounders but they are actually 110 grammes uncooked weight.
And we drive on the left! 

[gPink]

If you all spoke Spanish you would have a perfectly backwards society. 

[stevewfl]

In the UK we use the metric system,.... except where we don't.
Beer is served in pubs in Pints but in cans & bottles in millilitres, 568ml to be exact which equals 1 UK pint.
(We don't have little girly pints like y'all do) 
Gas is sold in litres but we use Miles Per Gallon to measure fuel economy.
If I go to a lumber yard and buy a piece of 8'x4' it is actually 240cm x 120cm (slightly smaller than 8x4)
McDs still sell Quarterpounders but they are actually 110 grammes uncooked weight.
And we drive on the left! 

But the wiminz are HOT 

[Roger.m]

Nippy today.

[stevewfl]

^^^nice pic!

[loknload]

It's finally warmed up to above freezing here.  The lowest temp I saw on my ST1300 was 12 degrees.  It actually wasn't too bad since the air was so dry.  When I rode to work day before yesterday I hit some freezing fog and the windscreen iced over but ODOT did a great job with the de-icer and the roads were clear...I just had to be careful on side streets and parking lots.  I never thought I would call 49 degrees with light rain warm but that's a cake walk compared to the last week and a half.

[stevewfl]

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