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Basement rat

Basement rat

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Why you no ride motorcycles?


Seriously, its +20 outside, I drove from San Diego to Venice Beach and I might have seen bike for every 300 cars. The weather's nice, its not windy, no bugs. Whats the deal?


Maybe its that I come from a place that saw -40 last week and we have several feet of snow where the riding season is from May to mid October.


Such a waste of weather.
 
GR you have to realize that anything under 80 is coolish. Under 70 is cold. When it drops under 40 we tend to huddle in small groups and cry. +20 is for friggin' Eskimos. We don't do +20.
 
I've seen the odd guy out on a bike here in Toronto over the past few days. And yes, we just got 15 inches of snow the other day. Right around the freezing mark today.

Not for me though - I've ridden every month of the year, but not for the last few seasons.
 
When I was in Ireland in the 60s my Norton was my only mode of transport. It was ridden 365 days a year. Nice, shitty, wet, snow, you name it. But now that I'm back home in SoCal I don't HAVE to ride in cold weather. And I choose not to. A few years back a friend and I went up to the snow for a bit of fun. He kept falling off and after a few mile he said screw it and turned back. It was freezing so when he turned back he got no argument from me.
 
Why not as many Californian riders as you'd expect?
That's an easy explanation.....Californian drivers.

Seriously the worst in the whole country in my opinion. I've lived here for 2 years, and I've probably seen a turn signal used that many times.
 
Some of my friends where out riding over the weekend (it was only about 20F) :

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Sorry, when I say 20, I mean Celsius. The coldest I've ridden on the street is about +5C and off road about -10C.


Then again, I ride snowmobiles in -25 too.

Tim, Venice beach very much reminds me of Young Street. Tho, not as buisy right now.
 
All depends on why they ride like you said, I ride all year round and here in SLC it gets chilly. Rode the other day in 28 degrees and it was great other than the back tire was having trouble with traction periodically. To each their own really, if I were in California though I probably would never drive my car. Anything over 30 is spring time weather ;)
 
The weather is always nice in San Diego, there's no rush to get out and ride ;). Anything less then 40* might as well be Antartica to us lol.
 
I ride in a wide range of temperatures between 74 and 86 degrees F. Nothin' keeps me off my bike unless it drops below 70.
 
GroovyAardvark said:
Why not as many Californian riders as you'd expect?
That's an easy explanation.....Californian drivers.

Seriously the worst in the whole country in my opinion. I've lived here for 2 years, and I've probably seen a turn signal used that many times.
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That's saying something having lived in Philly. Those people are just the worst EVERYTHING in the whole country. ;)
 
I'd take Los Angeles or San Diego drivers over Memphis area drivers any day of the week and twice on the weekends. People (and I use the term loosely) here tend to have no insurance, no license (them or their vehicle) and an open container of cheap wine or fortified beer. And a lit joint or crack pipe. And talking/texting away on their welfare provided "free" phone.

Hauled a load of scrap iron from the farm to town today, and then headed home with my empty trailer. Only got nearly killed a couple dozen times...
 
Boston is pretty terrible. Having to navigate through a rotory is like playing Russian roulette. They call us mass holes for a reason.

Just got bombed with 3 feet of snow. It will be a little while before the bike comes back out.
 
You guys inspired me with this thread. I read it this morning, before I headed out on my bike with absolutely no plans and about 10 hours to kill. I rode to my nearest snow, which was almost a 200 mile trip at the end of the day. My bike ran like shit up the mountain, and some have told me that it was the thinner air- anyone have any idea about that? I would have thought I'd have to be REALLY high for that to happen... Oh well. In any case, here is some southern Ca snow. It was about 60 degrees out. Amazing day.
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4000 ft is enough lack of air to make a difference, just ask anyone who went to the Dragon meet in Tennessee in 2011. Cherohala Skyway, 5200ft and everyone had to kick down 2 gears just to get to the top.
 
The higher you go the thinner the air gets and the richer your engine runs. There is a formula but I can't remember it. If you want to run in thin air come to Bonneville. The salt is 4200 ft. above sea level but the density altitude can vary from 3500 ft. all the way to 8000 ft. Here's a couple of time slips from last year. Apart from your speed you get the time, temp and DA (density altitude). If you look in the bottom right hand corner you can see the DA. Both are over 6000 ft.

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