Summers nearly over :(
Discussion
No need to put the bike away - sun still shines on occasions, doesn't it or is my mind playing tricks?
Actually, I remember being out in the Elise October time last year - quite warm...
Edit to say I have a track day booked on 21st October at Snetterton
Actually, I remember being out in the Elise October time last year - quite warm...
Edit to say I have a track day booked on 21st October at Snetterton
Edited by shot2bits on Wednesday 6th September 18:09
randlemarcus said:
chilli said:
NEVER....Never give in to the weather. Riding in the shite weather only makes us appreciate the better weather....I will be commuting everyday till either I or the bike falls apart!!!!
oh yes. I thought only delicate Italian stuff had to hibernate for the winter?
No -- its my old bones that dont like getting cold and wet :-)
Top pics!
There are some of us that ride all year and the bike lives outside under a cover, aka London. Unless its particularly heavy I don't even notice rain anymore.
Basically the only time I choose not to commute to work is when there is visable snow/ice on the ground or its forecast.. this has happend only a couple of times really in the last 6 and a bit years I've been in London. I remember having to ride home with heavy laying snowfall one evening and that wasn't fun.
However I have given up riding bikes out of London during winter as I have a car for those longer journeys, I did three winters all on my old Aprilia Falco when that was my only transport and that was enough I can definately say.
Riding down the M3 on Dec 24th to stay with my family and loosing all feeling in my fingers (through proper top notch winter gloves) and having to stop at Fleet Services to remove gloves to warm my hands up in the outside air was one particularly negative moment.
Oh yer and that and negociating hard overnight packed snow and ice for about a mile before I could get to a gritted road was another particularly challenging moment esp when a couple of 90 degree turns at junctions were required. Falco was a heavy beast I can tell you but being able to clutch out at idle with no throttle/brakes with both feet down to move was the only way to do this on sports tyres! lol I'm not doing that again ever if I can help it.
There are some of us that ride all year and the bike lives outside under a cover, aka London. Unless its particularly heavy I don't even notice rain anymore.
Basically the only time I choose not to commute to work is when there is visable snow/ice on the ground or its forecast.. this has happend only a couple of times really in the last 6 and a bit years I've been in London. I remember having to ride home with heavy laying snowfall one evening and that wasn't fun.
However I have given up riding bikes out of London during winter as I have a car for those longer journeys, I did three winters all on my old Aprilia Falco when that was my only transport and that was enough I can definately say.
Riding down the M3 on Dec 24th to stay with my family and loosing all feeling in my fingers (through proper top notch winter gloves) and having to stop at Fleet Services to remove gloves to warm my hands up in the outside air was one particularly negative moment.
Oh yer and that and negociating hard overnight packed snow and ice for about a mile before I could get to a gritted road was another particularly challenging moment esp when a couple of 90 degree turns at junctions were required. Falco was a heavy beast I can tell you but being able to clutch out at idle with no throttle/brakes with both feet down to move was the only way to do this on sports tyres! lol I'm not doing that again ever if I can help it.
sjtscott said:
Top pics!
There are some of us that ride all year and the bike lives outside under a cover, aka London. Unless its particularly heavy I don't even notice rain anymore.
Basically the only time I choose not to commute to work is when there is visable snow/ice on the ground or its forecast.. this has happend only a couple of times really in the last 6 and a bit years I've been in London. I remember having to ride home with heavy laying snowfall one evening and that wasn't fun.
However I have given up riding bikes out of London during winter as I have a car for those longer journeys, I did three winters all on my old Aprilia Falco when that was my only transport and that was enough I can definately say.
Riding down the M3 on Dec 24th to stay with my family and loosing all feeling in my fingers (through proper top notch winter gloves) and having to stop at Fleet Services to remove gloves to warm my hands up in the outside air was one particularly negative moment.
Oh yer and that and negociating hard overnight packed snow and ice for about a mile before I could get to a gritted road was another particularly challenging moment esp when a couple of 90 degree turns at junctions were required. Falco was a heavy beast I can tell you but being able to clutch out at idle with no throttle/brakes with both feet down to move was the only way to do this on sports tyres! lol I'm not doing that again ever if I can help it.
There are some of us that ride all year and the bike lives outside under a cover, aka London. Unless its particularly heavy I don't even notice rain anymore.
Basically the only time I choose not to commute to work is when there is visable snow/ice on the ground or its forecast.. this has happend only a couple of times really in the last 6 and a bit years I've been in London. I remember having to ride home with heavy laying snowfall one evening and that wasn't fun.
However I have given up riding bikes out of London during winter as I have a car for those longer journeys, I did three winters all on my old Aprilia Falco when that was my only transport and that was enough I can definately say.
Riding down the M3 on Dec 24th to stay with my family and loosing all feeling in my fingers (through proper top notch winter gloves) and having to stop at Fleet Services to remove gloves to warm my hands up in the outside air was one particularly negative moment.
Oh yer and that and negociating hard overnight packed snow and ice for about a mile before I could get to a gritted road was another particularly challenging moment esp when a couple of 90 degree turns at junctions were required. Falco was a heavy beast I can tell you but being able to clutch out at idle with no throttle/brakes with both feet down to move was the only way to do this on sports tyres! lol I'm not doing that again ever if I can help it.
LOL .. made the mistake of riding from Ipswich to Plymouth in February -- the week after I passed my test to visit the parents. It was so cold that on the way back I stopped on the M4 services to have a pee, only to find the old John Thomas was so cold it had gone internal :-) Had to wait 30 mins to warm up to have the pee! Sunny trackdays for me now !
Gassing Station | Biker Banter | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff