Well, Spring has arrived as of 11:29 AM Mountain Standard Time today.? I just came in from blowing 4 inches of snow out of my driveway.? Sure seems more like winter here.? Biggest single snowstorm for us this season.
Streets got a little slick overnight but are just wet now.? The hills to the west of me got over a foot in many places and I'm sure the sanding trucks were out doing their duty.? ?::)? Looks like it will be a couple weeks before those roads will be sand-free, depending on the weather the next few weeks.
Sounds like you folks in the southeastern mountains are having similar issues.? Hope it warms up soon & we can ALL get out riding again!
H2O
Well it's a beautiful Spring Day here. Sunny with a slight breeze and temp in the mid sixties.
Chris
How's that for a jinx? In the hour since I bragged about our nice day the clouds have blown in and its starting to sprinkle.
Chris
Freezing Rain at the moment - Redid the brakes on the family truckster and finished just before it started raining.
Still need to do front wheel bearings, hubs & brakes on the truck when (if) it ever gets nice here again. Gotta love those 3/4 ton, 4wd trucks with 8 lugs per wheel. At least I have the pneumatics to help there! Really only needs the bearings repacked, but as long as I'm in there, I might as well do everything else.
Quote from: visionless on March 20, 2006, 05:08:40 PM
How's that for a jinx? In the hour since I bragged about our nice day the clouds have blown in and its starting to sprinkle.
Chris
Serves you right for bragging!
H2O
:) first day of spring here in Canada to....... :o
The weather here is just beautiful, well here in Ontario any way. Where else would you want to be...... ::) We have gone from a near foot of snow yesterday to 85 F to-day....and it will be high 90's F to-morrow...... ;D. Can you belive it. Hundred's of people are out and about on their bikes. ( NO OTHER VEHICLE"S ARE ALLOWED ON THE ROAD'S ACROSS ONTARIO ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING....ITS LAW HERE)...They do, of course let emergency vehicle's use the road's but only in life or death situation's.
The roads have all been re-paved, no sand or salt or gravel, as the province paid to have all the road's swept clean over night.....OVER NIGHT..... ???
Man those thousand's of guy's from the local prison's did a wonderful job of cleaning the road's, cleaning and/or replacing road sign's, cleaning up the now uncovered road kill.........but the smell.............OOOOOOOOOHHHHH..... :o
It smell's like, like......dog s#!t............. :o OOOOOOOHHH, or is it racoon s#!t....... :'( man it makes yer eye's water, phew!
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Good old Canadian BULL S#!T....... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :D ;) 8)
HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING, BE SAFE, STAY SAFE.......
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I believe you Tiger! It was 103.4 F here in NC today. 8) It's supposed to dip down to 90 F tonight so we're looking forward to a cool spell. :) We too have lots of road kill. It gives us plenty of options for dinner. I know up there you guys' meet keeps longer because of the snow. Down here it spoils pretty quickly so we have to eat it while it's fresh. ITS LAW HERE!
Mutt
38 degrees and sleet here.
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David
Sunny but still chilly here in southwestern ontario, forcasting light fluries for the end of the week, but the good weather is coming.
was in the high fortys here in indiana, my second home. i couldnt help myself. had to go out and get aluminum polish, another stator cover gasket, #14 o-rings, yamabond-4, and a carton of smokes. dropped about $100 all told today.
took a good look at the spring line up at the cycle shop. any body see the new suzuki 600 & 750. the cut off pipe is awsome. take the rear fender off and all you got is the tire sticking out below the tail. pretty sweet. one of these days im not gonna have the will power to walk out of there without a new ride. if it wasent for the ramifications of having two visions in the garage, one tore to the frame. id of talked about financing.
but i did take the vision out for a ride yesterday and froze my arse off. was only out for about 10min before i couldnt feel my limbs. but it feed the fire to get the bikes in top shape for spring.
Hey you only got 9 weeks til OnRov spring ride.
Well today was the first day of spring for me, I got the newly PORed tank back on with polished petcock, flushed out the carbs, new plugs, fresh air in the tires & took a short blast around the neighborhood. bike ran like a raped ape!
i have to do a full check out on her before i take any big trips, the steering bearings are going to wait 'till after the move, but i have to seal up my balance tube & fix 2 oil leaks.
for a 10 min blast i put on all the gear, first use for the new Tourmaster boots (but i've been wearing them to break them in), the gold visor & breath guard.
hope it doesn't rain this weekend, my cases are a mess! ;D
--Lucky
fresh air in the tires
Did you remove the winter air and put summer air in? :)
I was wondering if anyone would catch that, lol! ;D
It's been a little cold her in Ca. (well... to our standards) but 65mph in 50 degree weather is cold.... but a cold ride is still better than a comfortable drive....
It's never too cold for a newbie like me. I was out the day after new years -2 degrees C at 110km/h that's nipply. I really need to get a thermometer with Fehrenheit so I can talk temperature with yall, I reckon.
f=(9/5)c+32