Warmed up enough today for a ride.
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This is why I still reside in SC. I get to ride pretty much year-round. Late Feb through early March is usually the only time it's too cold or too wet, and we've had a really mild winter this year.
I just finished a 3-hole service, wash and wax......we're heading out now to go look at some properties out along the popular motorcycle routes around the lakes. Haven't found the perfect spot yet, but that just means that when we get to explore more
I just finished a 3-hole service, wash and wax......we're heading out now to go look at some properties out along the popular motorcycle routes around the lakes. Haven't found the perfect spot yet, but that just means that when we get to explore more
Hoping to get mine out in the next week or two.
Well I live in the central valley of California and as you guys have probably read or seen we are having some wet weather(infact raining as I write this) so riding as been slow lately. Three or four days of rain then one day of 73 degrees so like I said riding is sparce right now.This is why I still reside in SC. I get to ride pretty much year-round. Late Feb through early March is usually the only time it's too cold or too wet, and we've had a really mild winter this year.
I just finished a 3-hole service, wash and wax......we're heading out now to go look at some properties out along the popular motorcycle routes around the lakes. Haven't found the perfect spot yet, but that just means that when we get to explore more
Also it can get too hot to ride here in the summer. Riding in 105-115 degree weather isn't that fun either. The sun out here in the valley is brutal during late July through august.....good luck and safe riding to you all.
That decent weather for jumping on a sled! Hell, they have electric start now-a-days, so you don't even wear yourself out pulling the starter rope.
Electric start? Why would you want all that extra weight? I've never seen or used one...
Every lb matters, I don't even carry beer!
Fuel injected sleds are easy. No battery, so the first pull charges the capacitor, second pull they start. Maybe 3 or 4 if it's -30*. 1 pull start all day long after the morning.
I was in Florida last month. It was miserable.
Like anything decent gear goes a long ways. I can throw on a base layer and my suit and be warm and comfy all day in chest deep snow.
I can't walk around naked with a fan without getting arrested...
I gave 25 winters of my life to the citizens of Illinois. I know all about good gear, and the lousy, low-bid cheap assed gear. Nope. Done with snow. You go play alllllllllll you want in that stuff. I'd rather be chasing a little white ball around what could be a perfectly good rifle range while you are shoveling your driveway.
Shovel? I just pull the 4 wheeler out of the garage and hit the driveway and sidewalk with the plow. Takes 15 minutes.
Illinois I can see, I wouldn't want to spend a day there, much less a winter.
Our weather is a bit different. It's 6* right now, it was 45* last weekend. It snowed yesterday, supposed to be back to 40* this next weekend and that snow will all melt below 5-6000'.
I'll have the dirtbike out before I put the sled away for the season.
It can help, but I was always cold, heated gloves and grips check. Heated vest and jacket, check. Heated over pants check. Make sure your bike can supply all the electrical pixies to run all that crap check, and new stator. And I still freeze, knees get stiff and hands get cold even with bark busters to deflect the wind from my paws.
I can do heat just fine, you just need to be ready for it. Back when I was sweating my nuts off in a race car I would hydrate all week for that one weekend.
You can't drink a glass of water before you go out and think you will be fine, does not work that way.
As I commute every day in the summer I bought this little gizmo. It is flat amazing.
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