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RE: How long has your CB sat - misterprofessionality - 03-03-2019
once it sat for 5 days while the crank case cover was replaced, but in terms of sitting unused when it could have been ridden? probably 24 hours tops.
RE: How long has your CB sat - the Ferret - 03-03-2019
yea VTR what's up? Sounds ominous
RE: How long has your CB sat - emptysea - 03-03-2019
I’ve ridden every month on my CB. I’m traveling today so I don’t have access to my log book, but it can’t be more than 59 days and it’s probably closer to 45 days.
RE: How long has your CB sat - GoldOxide_imp - 03-03-2019
February was a super low mileage snow month (< 30 kms). So it sat essentially all month. Now we are currently back down to well below 0C (e.g. -17C), so little is melting. The upshot, the sun is out earlier. It won't be long.
RE: How long has your CB sat - tinboatcapt_imp - 03-04-2019
I last filled it with fuel before putting it away on 10/31/2018. So a full four months with no end in sight. Yesterday morning it was -13F, today it has warmed up to a delightful -6F. At a minimum it will be another month, maybe two.
Jim
RE: How long has your CB sat - GoldOxide_imp - 03-04-2019
(03-04-2019, 01:32 AM)tinboatcapt_imp Wrote: I last filled it with fuel before putting it away on 10/31/2018. So a full four months with no end in sight. Yesterday morning it was -13F, today it has warmed up to a delightful -6F. At a minimum it will be another month, maybe two.
Jim
Sorry to hear Jim. Minnesota must be exceptionally challenging. Probably not unlike Ottawa Canada based CB owners.
RE: How long has your CB sat - the Ferret - 03-04-2019
One of my best friends lives in Minnesota. Every winter he curses his ancestors for settling in that area. Of course due to job (since retired) kids and grandkids he is stuck living there. He does go to Mexico for 2 months every winter just to get away from the snow and cold.
I'm not sure , as a matter of fact I'm positive, that I could not live where winter may last for 8 months of the year. Our 2 months of winter is too much for me.
Due to yesterdays freak snow storm I am stuck in the house today and maybe tomorrow and it's driving me nuts. Shouldn't be a shut in the house in the month of March due to snow/ice.
RE: How long has your CB sat - peterbaron - 03-04-2019
(03-04-2019, 03:42 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: One of my best friends lives in Minnesota. Every winter he curses his ancestors for settling in that area. Of course due to job (since retired) kids and grandkids he is stuck living there. He does go to Mexico for 2 months every winter just to get away from the snow and cold.
I'm not sure , as a matter of fact I'm positive, that I could not live where winter may last for 8 months of the year. Our 2 months of winter is too much for me.
Due to yesterdays freak snow storm I am stuck in the house today and maybe tomorrow and it's driving me nuts. Shouldn't be a shut in the house in the month of March due to snow/ice.
Sorry to tell you, but IMHO 2 months of winter is not a real reason for complaint..lol
I have to wait 6 months, do I like it?, NO... but as of 2019 winter, I'll be away from where I live for at least 2 months+...
Yesterday just call my friend from Europe +20*C/68F
Have a safe
EVERY day
RE: How long has your CB sat - tinboatcapt_imp - 03-04-2019
Yes. The climate in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Minnesota is challenging. The current iteration of the off season is actually what I remember the winters of the late 60's and 70's to have been. The trick back then was to put a tennis ball on the car radio antenna so you could be seen by other traffic over the drifts and snow banks at intersections. It is like that again this year.
Much of the climate change noise probably rises from the series of warmer than normal winters we have had the past few years. as welcome as they were, it spawned complacency.
My bi...complaining rises out of having just returned from five weeks in the southern tropics. I'm suffering 'climate shock'. like the other snow birds, I find a way to take a break from winter. This winter it just wasn't over yet.
Jim
RE: How long has your CB sat - Django - 03-04-2019
(03-04-2019, 04:35 AM)tinboatcapt_imp Wrote: Yes. The climate in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Minnesota is challenging. The current iteration of the off season is actually what I remember the winters of the late 60's and 70's to have been. The trick back then was to put a tennis ball on the car radio antenna so you could be seen by other traffic over the drifts and snow banks at intersections. It is like that again this year.
Much of the climate change noise probably rises from the series of warmer than normal winters we have had the past few years. as welcome as they were, it spawned complacency.
My bi...complaining rises out of having just returned from five weeks in the southern tropics. I'm suffering 'climate shock'. like the other snow birds, I find a way to take a break from winter. This winter it just wasn't over yet.
Jim
1986, when I still was a student, a German friend invited me to stay some weeks in his flat in Orlanda, FL. He had his first job as an engineer for a German company, who sent him for a one year project to Orlando.
That was February, March. When we took a bath in the Atlantic ocean at Daytona beach at that time, they asked us, if we were from Alaska, as only those guys would take a bath in the Atlantic during winter time.
Water temperature was 24°C btw.