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Tony Full Member 2004 No Login Offline Posts: 102 Saugerties, NY Gender:	Desperate to ride. 10/15/05 at 04:00:37 I am getting a little desperate to ride. I realy dont like riding in the rain, but it has been raining here for 8 days straight now. PLEASE MAKE THE RAIN STOP!!!
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Conway Junior Member 2005 No Login Offline Posts: 55	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #1 - 10/15/05 at 07:13:25 Hey Tony, have ya seen the New 2006 Suzuki Ark?
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slavy Serious Thumper Offline smart cars for stupid people Posts: 710 Phoenix, Arizona Gender:	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #2 - 10/15/05 at 08:48:22 Very simple. Come in Az. There is a national selebration every time it rains.
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jbrough7 Ex Member	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #3 - 10/15/05 at 09:53:22 Where are you? Vancouver Island?
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PerrydaSavage Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Riding "The Rock"! Posts: 3522 Republic of Newfoundland Gender:	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #4 - 10/17/05 at 03:33:12 Know how ya feel Tony ... I'm north and east of you out here in the North Atlantic ... the Ridin' Season is all but done, have had my LS in winter storage for only 1 week and already I'm climbin' the walls ... man at this rate I'll be a basket case by April ...
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Reply #5 - 10/17/05 at 04:09:59

I am in the Mid Hudson Valley of NY. It is about 90 Mi north of NYC. I decided yesterday to ride. The rained had stopped and the roads dried out. But darn! it was cold. I had on all my leathers and a full helmet but i still froze. It took a while to warm up afterwards. I guess I should have made the ride a little less than I did. I was out for about 4 hours. Got in about 130 Miles. I think the bike is getting stored this week.

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Tony Full Member 2004 No Login Offline Posts: 102 Saugerties, NY Gender:	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #6 - 10/17/05 at 04:13:03 AZ is a little to warm for me. Though I dont mind a couple days over 90, That would be about it. I am definetly a Temperate climate person. I have been tring to convince my wife to move to North Carolina though. She just wont do it. To many realatives in the area.
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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #7 - 10/17/05 at 04:58:35 I rode KLX for the first time in a couple of weeks last friday.Had a real nice rear end slide on some polished tarmac exiting a car park. Clive W
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Re: Desperate to ride.
Reply #8 - 10/17/05 at 05:46:53

Tony wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:

AZ is a little to warm for me. Though I dont mind a couple days over 90, That would be about it. I am definetly a Temperate climate person.

I guess that's all relative. Though we certainly recognize the spans of high 90's and 100+ days as hot, I think most of us in the Southwest think of our climes as temperate and would think of winters much further north as being unreasonably chilly. I mean, no fuel stabilizers and winterizing treatments are needed here. I guess I'll always be a Texan at heart, though I definitely have a fondness for the Pacific Northwest.

Note: There's still a heck of a lot of this country I've never seen personally. With a few minor exceptions, if you run a diagonal line from Washington State to Georgia, the SW half is pretty much my experience.

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Re: Desperate to ride.
Reply #9 - 10/17/05 at 07:18:18

Yes, cold is relative. I'm in Minnesota.

I got up early Sunday morning for a ride, and it was in the upper 30s (F) when I started out at 7:00 a.m.

For the most part, I was toasty warm, with leather pants, a Joe Rocket Meteor jacket (w/ liner) and leather gloves (no vents).

The weak link was the gloves ... my hands were the only part of me that got cold. The leather just transferred the cold directly to my skin.

But, with different gloves ... or maybe heated grips ... I think I can ride until the snow flies, maybe mid-November.

Cheers. Tammi

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Reply #10 - 10/17/05 at 11:01:05

I know u can heated gloves. I remember last year when I got my bike I rode it all thru winter. I didnt care it was 32 degrees outside. All I had were some cheap target gloves and most of the time they were cold.

maybe I can get some electric socks and put them in the lining of my coat lol. I bet it would be kewl to have some in ur seat. Ahh nice and toasty.

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savage777 Ex Member	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #11 - 10/17/05 at 18:28:36 My dad's BMW has heated grips, and his winter gear plugs into the bike. it heats the boot liners, britches, vest and helmet . Sounds kinda excessive but he rides all year unless we get ice. As soon as they plow and salt WE RIDE! I on the other hand just layer up and enjoy the (shrinkage). I mean the ride!
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Trippah Serious Thumper Offline I ride, therefore I am. Posts: 2517 central Mass Gender:	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #12 - 10/17/05 at 18:35:06 NO rain today- was sooo glad to get back on the savage for my commute to work. The windshield really helps but, when the road starts to frost over- its over. It's not quite yet time for the boston natives' favorite saying .."Wait till next year!"
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bentwheel Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Ride free, citizen Posts: 658 Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #13 - 10/17/05 at 19:01:46 Trippah wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10: It's not quite yet time for the boston natives' favorite saying .."Wait till next year!" And speaking of the Red Sox fans they can now go back to feeling inadequate and miserable.
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sluggo Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline big singles lead, twins follow the pack Posts: 4744 moses lake washington Gender:	Re: Desperate to ride. Reply #14 - 10/17/05 at 22:28:54 i ride year round also, even though it can get pretty darn cold here in central washington. what i do is use a pair of food handlers gloves under my regular gloves. works real well in the rain, and extreme cold.
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