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HawkGTRider:

--- Quote from: Ride4MS on January 19, 2025, 03:37:36 pm ---Well, it is a -3 F right now in southern Minnesota. Up from about -15 overnight and colder on the way later today and Monday.
A lot different than past few weeks when we were in San Juan, Puerto Rico for 5 days, then sailed away on a Viking Cruise to Manaus, Brazil in the rain forest where we had 95F and up for a few days with high humidity. Never did get used to that heat.
We are sending some of the cold to the South and SE U.S. later this week to share with you. So enjoy the warm now.

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While we were enjoying the temperature "SOARING" upwards to near 50, one of our group commented over our Senas that we could thank our friends from Minnesota for sharing their weather in previous days and in the near future. You're a nice guy, but that kind of sharing we don't need!

STLTHMSTA:
Well, what a difference a couple weeks make. Today as it got up into the 50's I had a choice to make. Do I slide out for a ride at least for a little while or do I work one that massive tree that fell in my yard??? !!!  I AM unsupervised after all. Well, the angel on my left shoulder won this time. I cut more on this tree. See, it's 80 feet long or better (it's not tall anymore now that it's on its side). It came mighty close to taking out my SUV that was parked in the corner of my driveway. It's always something.
So you luck dogs that got out for a bit, good on ya. I sure saw plenty around town for February.   

Yesterday I did make it to the Garage Brewed Bike show in Cincinnati at the Rhingeist Brewery with a few local buds. Our very now Patmo was there workin' the show. The esteemed former Prez Moose Parish was also in attendance. Great to see you both.   TM

Ride4MS:
I drove a SUV to Minneapolis 2 days ago and some of the Minnesotans being tough riders, had decided to go for a ride on I-35 in the country. I saw 3 that day, not together,  and it was about 35F so it was above freezing. There was also a custom 3 wheeler with a V-8 and car rear end with cover that looked like it would catch a lot of air to make the ride cold. The front had extended forks.
Hard to believe that he would take that out after the salt that was put on the roads about a week earlier.

Reminded me of a friend about 15+ years ago, that said he was going to ride his HD to work at least once every week all winter long. The next Spring, he said never again as the crown and aluminium was all salt damaged, and could not buff it out.

I then told him about the guy that rode his Honda 750 to work every day back in the late 1970's when I was the Service Manager at Mankato Honda. His ride was about 15 miles each way. He would trade about every year and the air cooled fins looked horrible, even after the shop used many chemicals, that would be illegal today. He also had lots of stories about hitting snow drifts, not knowing if they were soft or hard which would possibly cause him to lay it down.

NinjaBob:
After the polar vortex a couple weeks ago that brought Louisiana a hard freeze and 8 or 10 inches of snow we've had some unsuasaly nice January days. I took advantage to give 4 bikes about 250 miles of exercise. Our parish does not use salt, they put a bunch of sand on the bridges. For the first two trips the sand was hard to avoid and soaking wet. I did not know what to expect and slowed  way down but my tires handled it fine. After a couple days the 4 wheel vehicles had made tracks of bare pavement for me. However while riding the R3 I had to  ride a hilly section where major construction was going on and the road was covered with mud. I was amazed the the R3's track tires handled it so well.

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