winter sucks... i want to go for a ride

SOLO LOBO · 01-20-2007, 09:31 AM

Bollocks · 01-20-2007, 10:30 AM

Is that your living room?
I had a bike in the kitchen for a year one's.

Bollocks · 01-20-2007, 10:35 AM

Thats better.

wintonio · 01-20-2007, 10:48 AM

Houston weather: high of 54, 50% chance of rain showers, recent case of bar wobble removed; I AM GOING OUT FOR A RIDE!

SOLO LOBO · 01-20-2007, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bollocks

Is that your living room?
I had a bike in the kitchen for a year one's.

Actually some idiot converted my garage into a rec room, so I changed it back!

walkingbear · 01-20-2007, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SOLO LOBO

Actually some idiot converted my garage into a rec room, so I changed it back!

It got to 43 today.. but I'm riding in the morning anyway

friar mike · 01-20-2007, 03:44 PM

Try living in Alaska.

dude!

chip · 01-20-2007, 04:56 PM

Yea tell me about it...Try living in Alaska and deployed to Iraq. Bike just sitting there collecting dust, parts stacking up. Can't start it, so I'll go home to a dead battery...
But tons of new parts...whooohoooo!!!

pilot · 01-20-2007, 05:14 PM

Don't be a pussy, some Canuck just finished his Canada Coast to Coast today, arriving in St. Johns, Newfoundland. He left Vancouver Island January first. Look in Great White North.

curbjumper · 01-20-2007, 07:37 PM

I hate winter too... sure, I put on a brave face by taking the bike out on the occasional "nice" day- but it's no substitute for nice weather & the smell of squished bugs cooking on the engine...

This slippery & cold winter crap...

Is a cheap substitute for this... nice warm traction action.

I think I'll bring the bike into the house now... sure, if I want a little bit of

That guy- Paul I think his name is- that just rode across Canada in January should get an award...

SOLO LOBO · 01-20-2007, 08:03 PM

Let me add some clarification, I want to ride DIRT, in the mountians that are 45 minutes from my house... I don't want to ride the pave. Rigth now my mountains are snowbound.

street riding is OK, dirt is muuccch better!

friar mike · 01-20-2007, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SOLO LOBO

Let me add some clarification, I want to ride DIRT, in the mountians that are 45 minutes from my house... I don't want to ride the pave. Rigth now my mountains are snowbound.

street riding is OK, dirt is muuccch better!

Ya well try 2 feet of snow at my shop door and I don't live up in the mountains. at lest you can ride the pave if you want to. here its 5 months of ice and snow. I hope to have a bike stashed down there some day so I can ride in the winter maybe in texes or something. well I think its time for some meds now.

wintonio · 01-21-2007, 09:17 AM

but I'll rub it in anyway: yesterday's ride was a blast. Cold and rainy, but the darien suit and the heated grips fixed all that.

Cordless · 01-21-2007, 09:49 AM

It's not the cold that is stopping my riding, it's the salt covering all these roads. I have seen what salt does to a motorcycle over a few years--it ate my Honda 350XL into a pitted rusty pile. I did try cleaning it but that salty liquid got into everything and ate everything.

Do I need a full fairing sport bike for my winter riding? Would TKC 80 tires work on a sportbike. I think I could get one cheap and make it a salt bike. Then I could cledan it off in a carwash with a hose (Not going to do this but I am getting very antsy to ride today--it's 18 degrees Fahrenheit but sunny and still. I could ride--but NO!)

KL5A · 01-21-2007, 11:25 AM

So go!

Take action against winter. Aren't humans the master of their environment?

01-20-2007, 10:30 AM	#2
Bollocks Farts with an Accent™ Joined: Oct 2005 Location: Watauga lake, TN Oddometer: 4,181	Is that your living room? I had a bike in the kitchen for a year one's. __________________ Paul The Self-Preservation Society 08 Triumph 1050 Toight like a Toiger Remember the time when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous.

01-20-2007, 10:35 AM	#3
Bollocks Farts with an Accent™ Joined: Oct 2005 Location: Watauga lake, TN Oddometer: 4,181	Thats better. Attached Images __________________ Paul The Self-Preservation Society 08 Triumph 1050 Toight like a Toiger Remember the time when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous.

01-20-2007, 03:44 PM	#7
friar mike IronButtGruver Joined: Apr 2004 Location: Wasilla Alaska Oddometer: 4,882	Try living in Alaska. dude! __________________ We,re on a mission from God. "blues brothers" Don't go up there someone's going to die. "Walter" A world without string is chaos Good-Bad-Iam the guy with the gun "evil dead" God's speed Rommel run free my dog

01-20-2007, 04:56 PM	#8
chip Follow Me Joined: Jun 2005 Oddometer: 1,736	+1 Yea tell me about it...Try living in Alaska and deployed to Iraq. Bike just sitting there collecting dust, parts stacking up. Can't start it, so I'll go home to a dead battery... But tons of new parts...whooohoooo!!!

01-20-2007, 05:14 PM	#9
pilot Slacker Joined: Dec 2002 Location: Kansas City Oddometer: 29,458	Don't be a pussy, some Canuck just finished his Canada Coast to Coast today, arriving in St. Johns, Newfoundland. He left Vancouver Island January first. Look in Great White North. __________________ The finishers medal is satisfyingly heavy... Neduro on Dakar The other 10% are sociopaths , serial killers and KLR riders. You wont get much sympathy from them. -Furious D

01-20-2007, 10:48 AM	#4
wintonio last of the Dum Dum Daze Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Denver, CO Oddometer: 1,650	Houston weather: high of 54, 50% chance of rain showers, recent case of bar wobble removed; I AM GOING OUT FOR A RIDE!

01-20-2007, 07:37 PM	#10
curbjumper Just curbjumper Joined: Jun 2006 Location: Upper Canuckistan Oddometer: 5,182	I hate winter too... sure, I put on a brave face by taking the bike out on the occasional "nice" day- but it's no substitute for nice weather & the smell of squished bugs cooking on the engine... This slippery & cold winter crap... Is a cheap substitute for this... nice warm traction action. I think I'll bring the bike into the house now... sure, if I want a little bit of That guy- Paul I think his name is- that just rode across Canada in January should get an award...

01-21-2007, 09:17 AM	#13
wintonio last of the Dum Dum Daze Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Denver, CO Oddometer: 1,650	well, maybe it was only pavement... but I'll rub it in anyway: yesterday's ride was a blast. Cold and rainy, but the darien suit and the heated grips fixed all that.

01-21-2007, 09:49 AM	#14
Cordless Two Wheel Addict Joined: Sep 2006 Location: ABQ, NM Oddometer: 1,960	It's not the Cold It's not the cold that is stopping my riding, it's the salt covering all these roads. I have seen what salt does to a motorcycle over a few years--it ate my Honda 350XL into a pitted rusty pile. I did try cleaning it but that salty liquid got into everything and ate everything. Do I need a full fairing sport bike for my winter riding? Would TKC 80 tires work on a sportbike. I think I could get one cheap and make it a salt bike. Then I could cledan it off in a carwash with a hose (Not going to do this but I am getting very antsy to ride today--it's 18 degrees Fahrenheit but sunny and still. I could ride--but NO!)

01-21-2007, 11:25 AM	#15
KL5A Bugs are the new black Joined: Jun 2003 Location: BP51HO Oddometer: 4,477	So go! Take action against winter. Aren't humans the master of their environment? __________________ HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. Only dead fish go with the flow.

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