Dec 24 rides

[the Ferret]

El Nino is making this a great year for riding. Here it is Dec 24 and we here in SW Ohio have been in the 60's all week. Today was no exception.

First ride was a 25 mile curvy road ride on the CB



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then I brought the CB home and picked up the ST and my wife and we road down along the river east for 40 miles, stopped at the benches overlooking the river in Ripley, had a thermos of tea each, then back home. 81 miles round trip

wife says HI Guys!

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106 comfortable miles at the end of December. What a great day!

 

[metallyguitarded_imp]

Looks fantastic! I was able to get out and enjoy my own ride today as well. It felt good to stretch the CB's legs.

 

[the Ferret]

Awesome MG. Ran into a guy from some place in Cali today who is back visiting family and he said it was colder and wetter in Cali than here. Doesn't seem right. He works for Raytheon or something (weather satellite related)

December has been just unbelievable. Only missed 1 day of riding (so far) due to heavy rain and have accumulated 1688 miles for the month...of December...in Ohio! Un-real

 

[Cormanus]

G'day, Mrs Ferret! :hello:

It's a good thing the El Niño does someone some good.

 

[the Ferret]

Is it bad for you Cormanus?

 

[kennyw]

We are looking at possible snow out here. Haven't ridden all week since classes are over and I don't need to go into Seattle where I benefit from better parking on the bike.
I try not to ride when it is below 40F. I don't mind a little (or a lot) of rain but I'd rather not deal with icy roads on the CB.

 

[redbirds_imp]

Great rides Micky. Glad the strange weather is giving you so much fine two wheeled fun.

 

[Cormanus]

Is it bad for you Cormanus?

Not so much for me personally, Ferret; but for people in the South Pacific it's not so good. There are droughts and the food production drops significantly leaving people hungry and irascible. I've read that there are bad droughts and serious food shortages in PNG this year as a result of El Niño.

In the past the Australian east coast has been badly affected with very serious droughts after years of successive El Niño events. We get very nervous when the wether chappies tell us there's one on the way.

It's a classic case of 'It's an ill wind ...'

 

[capttwb136_imp]

Wow! Blue skies you lucky dog. I'm only a couple states to your east and we haven't seen blue skies for almost a week. I've been wanting to try out my new Corbin, and every time it stops raining I get it out, travel a couple hundred feet and the sky opens up again. We have had some really loud thunder and brilliant flashes of lightning. Unheard of here at Christmas time. Our poor dog doesn't know what is going on.

 

[emptysea]

Looks great Mickey. Weather here has been a bit cooler than down by you, but still rideable. Alas, family obligations have kept us off the bikes yesterday and may do so today, although I'm pushing to squeeze a ride in today with Cheryl so she can continue her consecutive months riding count.

Great pictures and a great way to spend Christmas Eve.

 

[drodg33]

Great Ride. As EmptySea said yesterday had obligations that kept me off of the bike but it looks like a day I could ride here in Chicagoland. Have a great Christmas

 

[Django]

We undergo unusual warm temperatures here in Germany, too. This was the third Dec 24 ride in a row over the last years.

Usually we have here an average temperature of 1°C at this time of the year. Currently lowest is 6°C in the night and highest 12°C at day.

I enjoyed a ride of about 250 km into some less known to me regions here NE where I live, exploring some roads for next year's group rides. Very low traffic, as all were preparing for Christmas Eve.

 

[the Ferret]

Nice that you were able to get out Django. How do the mitts work out for you? No pressing on the brake lever?

 

[Doug_imp]

Wow, looks like you'll have to park the bike for a few minutes and break out the lawn mower. Too cold here in Denver, 12*F here right now with 3 or so in. of snow on the ground. Only managed to put on about 40 mi. in Dec. Looks like we wont be above freezing for at least a week.

 

[Django]

Hi Ferret,

the mitts work out fine for me. I can wear my comfortable all round gloves and still have warm fingers, even down to temperatures just above freezing point.

Inside the mitts I can still reach all controls, much better than wearing clumsy winter gloves.

I also had some concerns about wind pressure at high speed, while I searched for the right model. I heard from other mitts, that they produce pressure on the clutch lever, which then caused problems. But the cut of these ones is right flat and seems not to produce that much wind resistance.

Yet I have not experienced any problems at all up to 140 km/h (~90 mph), which I did also at Dec 24 at a stretch along the Autobahn to get home fast. But then, they feel a little bit tighter around my hand at that speed.

However, I look forward to get rid of them, when it'll be warmer again. But until then it's better to have a somehow clumsy look than really cold fingers.

 

[the Ferret]

Doug that's why I couldn't live there lol.

Django I have some on my ST no problem, and I love them. But on my brothers FZ-1 anything over 40 pushed on the front brake lever. We built guards to hold them away from the levers on his.