05-09-2014, 11:01 AM
(05-08-2014, 11:34 PM)Rocky_imp Wrote:(05-08-2014, 10:11 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote:(05-08-2014, 08:01 PM)Rocky_imp Wrote:(05-04-2014, 04:31 AM)MFGUSA_imp Wrote: Where are you over there Rock? Halifax maybe? I'm sure a trip to Maine would have yielded 2 more CB1100 choices for you (if you can do that). I was just out to Bar Harbor last year via Quebec city via St. Mary's Ontario from Wisconsin. Love your area.
Yes, I'm in Halifax.
The northeast of the USA and Canada is a great area for motorcycling. Stay away from the cities and there's lots of rural wide open spaces and back roads.
I love riding in New England. The first time I rode from Halifax to Boston was in 1957 on board a BSA Golden Flash. I've been back a few times since, but riding modern Honda's.
(05-04-2014, 02:00 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: You're a bloody legend, Rocky. I'm looking forward to riding at 76. Looking forward to the CB still going then too.
Hope you get some excellent riding weather soon to confirm the wisdom of your choice.
Hardly a legend, but thanks for the thought
To have excellent health and act more like 36 at this age is worth all the gold in the world.
I was impressed to read that one rider here is 78
I had the pleasure of spending three weeks up and down the east coast of Australia back in January and had the time of my life. It was a family vacation so no motorcycles were involved.
It was 40C when we were in Melbourne which is bloody hot for us Canadians with Eskimo blood
That's ridiculously hot for most of Australians too, mate. It got to 45° here this year and it was really miserable.
I reminds me of the story of the baby polar bear who asked his father whether he was all polar bear or had some other type of bear genes as well. His father pointed out that only his mother could really answer the question. So he asked his mother who assured him he was 100% polar bear. She then asked "Why are you asking?" He said "I want to know why I'm so f*cking cold!"
That's ridiculously hot for most of Australians too, mate. It got to 45° here this year and it was really miserable.
I reminds me of the story of the baby polar bear who asked his father whether he was all polar bear or had some other type of bear genes as well. His father pointed out that only his mother could really answer the question. So he asked his mother who assured him he was 100% polar bear. She then asked "Why are you asking?" He said "I want to know why I'm so f*cking cold!" Wow, that's really hot!!!!
One afternoon in Melbourne it hit 41C and that was the hottest I have ever felt. But at least it wasn't humid.
Here on the coastal north Atlantic ocean where I live, 30C(86F) is a very hot day - although it does get a little hotter in the interior away from the ocean breezes.
We have lots of winding coastal roads so that's where I do most of my riding.
I was in Sydney in January 2013 when it recorded its hottest ever temperature. It reached 45.8. My wife and I were driving my son's car into Sydney from the south At around the lowest point in one of the tunnels the thermometer in his car said it was 51°C outside. I would not like to be riding in that.



