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Title: baby it's cold outside
Post by: scoTTy on January 05, 2010, 03:37:30 pm
that crazy son keeps going over in my head..

5 degrees in western KY this am.. you northern folks are getting hammered
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: The Garbone on January 05, 2010, 03:45:58 pm
It will be freezing every night here in Central Fla at least until next Tuesday...  Suffice it to say I am not riding to work,  my blood is too thin from living this far south for riding in 20deg temps.
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: ace.cafe on January 05, 2010, 05:09:29 pm
It's been below freezing continuously for over a week here, and will continue  to be below freezing for the rest of this week. The daily highs are in the mid-20s and the lows in the low teens at night.

I can't paint the Ace Air Canisters in this weather, so they are going to be at least a week delayed before I can get them done. So, for anybody waiting, that's what's going on.

Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: The Garbone on January 05, 2010, 05:17:40 pm
I can't paint the Ace Air Canisters in this weather, so they are going to be at least a week delayed before I can get them done. So, for anybody waiting, that's what's going on.



LOL,,  I won't be ordering one for the 95' till next month anyhow, take your time..   ;)    If things go good I might order a 30mm flatside with it..
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: baird4444 on January 05, 2010, 05:34:10 pm
" LOL,,  I won't be ordering one for the 95' till next month anyhow, take your time..   Wink    If things go good I might order a 30mm flatside with it.. "

hey Garbone-- DO the flatside!  You won't regret it.  the increase in torque
thru the whole rpm range will amaze you.
                    - Mike
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Chasfield on January 05, 2010, 06:31:56 pm
I have  sust been out-pacing the vehicle traffic as I walked home from the station. The roads were covered in that worst kind of black ice with a little bit of melt water on top.

Cars accelerating from 0 to 2 mph were getting wheel spin and roads were grid-locked as far as the eye could see.
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: PhilJ on January 05, 2010, 07:22:36 pm
It's amazing, every year in places that have ice yearly, the drivers forget how to drive on ice and snow.  ???
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: 1Blackwolf1 on January 05, 2010, 07:29:00 pm
  Not much of a problem around here with that...but this is frozen tundra about 7 months of the year.  We've hovered around 0-10 above for about a month now.  No biggee.  Springs on the way..in about 2 months.  Will.
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Bullet.wagon on January 05, 2010, 07:37:48 pm
Going for a ride today ,52 degrees.
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Slider on January 05, 2010, 07:57:42 pm
5 degrees in western KY this am.. you northern folks are getting hammered


I know what it's like in KY, I lived there for about five years (Louisville area).

We had a real cold spell (for this area) a few weeks ago. It was down around 15 at night, 20s during the day. Now it's not so bad, in the 50s during the day. Lots of rain, though, making a muddy sloppy mess at the end of the driveway.

Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: 1Blackwolf1 on January 05, 2010, 07:59:32 pm
Going for a ride today ,52 degrees.

  Thanks buddy!!!  We won't see those temps 'til about March if we're lucky.  Will.
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Cabo Cruz on January 05, 2010, 10:12:38 pm
This winter is inching into the Record Books as the coldest in the last 25 years!  We need a Straight-Up movie maker to rebut An Inconvenient Truth with The Inconvenient Facts! 
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Bug_Catcher on January 05, 2010, 11:52:14 pm
a beautiful sunny 55F degrees here in the day.  8)  Nights get down to the 20's though  :-\  So as long as I'm in before dark!
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: PhilJ on January 05, 2010, 11:54:04 pm
My AVL picked as good a time as any to croak, we've been in the mid 20s to upper 40s lately. Before you chastise me, I'm in South Texas and this isn't normal. But I have Ballentine and Pinch to make my cheeks rosy.  ::)
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: scoTTy on January 06, 2010, 03:07:30 am
rosey cheeks.. I knew a stripper in houston by that name ::)
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: t120rbullet on January 06, 2010, 04:00:53 am
rosey cheeks.. I knew a stripper in houston by that name ::)

Sounds like your warming up again.
CJ
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Cabo Cruz on January 06, 2010, 05:19:20 pm
Bess Natch was a life-long friend of Rosy Cheeks!
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: 1Blackwolf1 on January 06, 2010, 06:24:08 pm
 :D :D :D
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Rick O'Shea on January 06, 2010, 09:14:43 pm
Papa Juan, as they say in these parts; "yew jess ain't right son"
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: The Garbone on January 06, 2010, 10:54:17 pm
Since we are talking about that type of women...

Disaster in California....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMucmRlPZK0
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: Cabo Cruz on January 06, 2010, 11:25:14 pm
"Papa Juan, as they say in these parts; "yew jess ain't right son"" 

Br. Rick, "yew jess ain't kiddin' son".
Title: Re: baby it's cold outside
Post by: jest2dogs on January 08, 2010, 06:07:07 am
Well, this is kinda related... I think...?

Way back when....  When I had lots of youthful testosterone instead of brains, that is. I was moved to visit the girlfriend in upstate Vermont (at UVM). All I had then was my R90, no car, and I rode year round in Youngstown, NY (NORTH of Buffalo!) while stationed there at a small boat station in the USCG. But  I could not make it to Vermont until the heavy snow was out of the Adirondacks.

So the first break in the weather and I was off on weekend liberty to ride 400+ miles each way for a little warmth  ;D

I wore everything I owned covered by a bright red snowmobile suit. I recall being so tired and cold on one return trip at night that I pulled over at a Howard Johnson's on the NY Thruway and layed down on a picnic table outside the restaurant window. When I awoke  I was covered in frost and my faceshield was frozen shut and fogged over. I must've been quite a sight to the customers watching me out the window. I guess stiffness would be an appropriate descriptive term for the entire weekend..

Ah, what we do for love...

-Jesse