Today,
It was 12 C min, 14 C max, windy and raining (75mm or 3" since 6am). Glad I was working today and didn't want to go for a ride.
Welcome to the "Sunshine Coast"
As of Mon, 1st Feb 2016- ;
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift (that's why it's called "the present")
#1 tip I ride by: Ride as though you're invisible, not invincible
Bikes so far: Honda CB250-Traded, Suzuki GS500F-Traded, '07 F800ST Matt Graphitan-Deceased, '10 F800ST Night Blue-sold, at present bikeless
Damn! October 21 and I am seeing a snow squall out the office window here in north Toronto. Yuck. And I am glad I went with my gut & left the bike at home today!!
“Do we behave reasonably well as a species? Or are we perhaps one of the mistaken evolutionary branches?" - Farley Mowat
High of 45F. Cold and windy with SNOW this morning!
Replacement bike is: Blue '08 F800ST - ABS, OBC, Clear lenses, BMW TopCase and Sport Panniers, SW-Motech Aux Lights , Grey MRA Vario, kaoko throttle lock, mirror extenders.
Calgary today....
-5C (23F) for the morning commute, 10C (50F) for the ride home in the afternoon....no snow yet, woohoo!!! I can still keep on riding!!
DC Metro area is supposed to be 'steady soaking rain' all day and high of around 60F. My ride to the Metro station Monday was 'brisk' - I kept getting a flashing display on the OBC - cycled thru 3 times before I remembered it was the frost warning on the ambient temp . Thursday it stayed on the whole trip - went from 34-30F. Might have to get out the winter clothes this weekend!
Frost and 25* F in the mornings at my house in Colorado for the last week, but it warms to about 65* by noon. Beautiful "Indian Summer" weather. Think I'll ride up and have lunch with my mother today.
very late and mild fall this year. we are having +11C and dry. A friend of mine did SS1000 here yesterday.
And the forecast says the first really cold night/below zero/ would be in two weeks only.
Yesterday was wet (79mm of rain) and 24C max.
Today was fine, 29C max and about 80+ humidity. Where has winter gone????
As of Mon, 1st Feb 2016- ;
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift (that's why it's called "the present")
#1 tip I ride by: Ride as though you're invisible, not invincible
Bikes so far: Honda CB250-Traded, Suzuki GS500F-Traded, '07 F800ST Matt Graphitan-Deceased, '10 F800ST Night Blue-sold, at present bikeless
We are dy as bone here (>10 degree dew points, or about 5% humidity) with 47F (8C) lows and 77F (25C) highs. This is winter for us, but we will have five nights with frost between now and February. I rode the bike to my office yesterday, and doing it again today and tomorrow.
You lucky people...haven't seen the sky here for several days now, let alone the sun. Constant greyness, dampness and drizzle and the roads are covered in cack.
The joys of the English winter!
You lucky people...haven't seen the sky here for several days now, let alone the sun. Constant greyness, dampness and drizzle and the roads are covered in cack.
The joys of the English winter!
And some of us have ridden in the snow And some have fallen off in the snow
But bike and rider escaped ok But bike is really dirty now With loads of salt eating it up
And we have the cold wet rain to look forward to
But we know somewhere an F800 rider is whizzing along in the hot dry sun
It's just not here in the UK
Flame red F800s as of Nov 2006. Watch for me around North London.
Well the summer rains are here! 23 C and a good solid rain this morning on my way to work... glad I'd packed my luggage with covers on!
Have a 340km dirt run tomorrow, so the "Mud Monster" will be out in full force... planned for about 15 river crossings too... they will be in full flow.... Wooohooooo! I love getting dirty!
Well, it snowed about six inches over the last couple of days here at my house in Colorado. 20 miles to the west of me at Loveland Pass they got hammered: 48 inches in about 24 hours. Today was warm though (~45* F) so the roads were melting. I think if I'm careful I can ride down to town for the weekly Colorado BMW club breakfast and ride. I guess we'll be sticking to plains now- no more mountain rides this year.
.............shu
2009 F800ST midnight blue 2007 F800ST-gone but not forgotten.
Right now it's 37 C and humidity in the 80-90 region with a massive thunderstorm just to the south and another to the west. Welcome to summer in south east Queensland.
As of Mon, 1st Feb 2016- ;
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift (that's why it's called "the present")
#1 tip I ride by: Ride as though you're invisible, not invincible
Bikes so far: Honda CB250-Traded, Suzuki GS500F-Traded, '07 F800ST Matt Graphitan-Deceased, '10 F800ST Night Blue-sold, at present bikeless
Right now it's 37 C and humidity in the 80-90 region with a massive thunderstorm just to the south and another to the west. Welcome to summer in south east Queensland.
Whew, that's too hot, even as I brush the snow off me right now. (At work doing outside repairs in a snowstorm)
Here's my backyard. About a foot of snow last night- but the sky is clearing now. All winter long I keep a wheeltrack shoveled clear on my driveway. The roads could be melted off by Friday and I might get out for a ride as long as I can get out of my driveway.
..............shu
2009 F800ST midnight blue 2007 F800ST-gone but not forgotten.
Here's my backyard. About a foot of snow last night- but the sky is clearing now. All winter long I keep a wheeltrack shoveled clear on my driveway. The roads could be melted off by Friday and I might get out for a ride as long as I can get out of my driveway.
I think if I had that backyard, I would spend a lot of time lost in thought looking out the window, elbows leaning on the sill, sipping a mug of coffee.
Your photo will work for now. Thanks.
ABS, OBC, TPM, HHG, Hyperpro kit, Remus powercone, Vario levers, BMW side and top cases, Evo mirror extenders, center stand, Throttlemeister b&s hvy, final drive slider, K&N filter, rear flap gone
Was raining cats and dogs yesterday thru this morning (over 2" in some places) in the DC area, now getting cold and windy and still a few poodles I mean puddles around. Well below freezing projected at night and only (maybe) up to 40F thru the weekend. BUT maybe a bit warmer on Monday for the ride to Metro!
Well, the Gillette,Wyoming weather here today is COLD. It is air temp a nice -13 degrees below ZERO and wind chill of -38.9 and this is a warm up from the low of -18 here. We have been under a blizzard warning for some time, it should expire later. The low tonight will hit a low of -21 below at midnight tonight. High Monday will warm up to a nice +2 above. Last night I drove home from Rapid City, SD in fog ice, snow and blizzard conditions. I-90 had cars flipped all over and many in the ditch, do to the ICE on the road. Temp dropped and with-in 1 mile all the wet fog became slick ice, defrost and wipers could not keep up with it at all, it was bad! Then after 30 miles of that, the snow and winds came in. Now, that was much better to drive in excepted for the actual white out! On the 20th of December, I drive back over to Rapid City to fly out to go to AZ for Christmas. That will be nice in AZ; we have not had time to do Christmas in AZ for long time after the kids came. AZ, here I come!
Ride Safe, ( 2014 F700GS ) Richard K7TNT-DN74 IBA #59670, MOA #114372, GS Giant Bighorns & Be the Adventure Billings 2015
Sounds like a driving nightmare! I'm flying to Detroit Tuesday to help my 20 y.o. daughter drive her car back to Colorado. 1400 miles- I sure hope we're not dealing with that crap.
.............shu
2009 F800ST midnight blue 2007 F800ST-gone but not forgotten.
Well it never made the +2 today. At work north of town we made it up to -7 below from the -21 this morning. They say that it should make +7 tomorrow. So thing are looking up!
Ride Safe, ( 2014 F700GS ) Richard K7TNT-DN74 IBA #59670, MOA #114372, GS Giant Bighorns & Be the Adventure Billings 2015
·"'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.'" - William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 2
· "BUGGER" said in that sickening moment when you wished you hadn't made that last post - Dunny, F800 Forum, Friday 29th February 2008
OOoo Someone just wants to brag about there plush office.
Raining here (whats new)
I could have taken a picture of the helicopter but that would have been bragging
If tha wants owt fo nowt do it thisen
·"'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.'" - William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 2
· "BUGGER" said in that sickening moment when you wished you hadn't made that last post - Dunny, F800 Forum, Friday 29th February 2008
Originally Posted by gecko
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. Thursday it stayed on the whole trip - went from 34-30F. Might have to get out the winter clothes this weekend!
I really hate to drive the car to work
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) Richard K7TNT-DN74 IBA #59670, MOA #114372, GS Giant Bighorns & Be the Adventure Billings 2015
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