First Ride of 2010 with pics (woot!!!)
 

Temperature when I left the house.
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Warming her up. Please disregard the time. It's one hour ahead. Didn't bother to change last fall.
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Another one.
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Another one.
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Filled her up to get her ready for the next ride.
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It felt great to be out when you haven't ridden since the week before that snow storm came. The wind was gusting like crazy, too. When I was heading up on I-270, The gust was so bad that when I was going straight, I was leaning to the left like I was leaning against a wall. Wind doesn't bother me, though. It just made the ride more interesting. Wonder what the windchill is doing 80mph at 12*F.

I was only able to do 114 miles because my wife and I had to be somewhere at 7:00pm. Anyway, I just wanted to share.

Only 114 miles, damn you :lol:

what are you wearing as far as gear to keep somewhat warm out there?

still some snow and ice on the gorund here so def not safe to be heading out.

Heated jacket liner and gloves.

nice, I have the same with the gerbings jacket and gloves, now i need to get a new voltage regulator and get back out on my priller after reading this LOL

It has better wind protection than my buell.

Do they use salt on the roads there?

They do here and lots of it :(

Tom

Yes, they do. Just not that much on the road since we got all that rain a couple of weeks ago.

You are an animal, brother. 12*? Good work!

Agreed

Yeah same here.

Oh, its rained before you rode. That is good. For me I won't ride if there is salt all over the rode. In the spring I usually wait till there has been a couple good rains to rinse the roads off.

Serious? I <3 the wind protection on the R! And the built in heater is nice. :D

Yea I made the mistake of riding as soon as the roads cleared before. What a fucking mess and all that salt on your bike can't be good!

I was hoping to see some pics with the new hoops on.

I'm still waiting for the snow to melt. Plus another storm and Arctic cold is coming in tomorrow. I haven't seen a Sunoco gas station since the early 70's. Used to get Sunoco 260 then, with an octane over 100 for $0.37/gal. Boy was that expensive compared to other premium.

Was going to put them on but the snow storm messed up everything. Will try sometime this month.

My car runs crappy on Sunoco around here. There's one right down the road from my house. I stopped going there. Consistently get worse mileage on Sunoco.

But you also understand how bad the salt is here in michigan. The roads are freakin white from dec till about april

Ohio is right there with Michigan when it comes to that.

:dthumb:

I got in a mere 50 miles or so, and it was only 30'ish - what a wuss I am. :lol: Still a great way to roll in the New Year! :rockwoot:

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I did a canyon run on Sunday...temp was 75. It was near perfect.

I won't ride under 60F, unless it is to work.

12F is nutz...

Same here.

Yep.

Shush you ;)

the streets here are white now from all the salt they dropped and we havent had any rain in a bit and it doesnt look like any in the next several days either.

My first ride of the year... Sunny mid-50s :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9M9oxbg1uI

I don't expect any rain here for months!

:lol: No doubt.

nice

I put 50 miles on my and my GF's bike today, it was 42 degrees...yea dude you can have it! It's supposed to be in the 50s next week so I'm sure that I can somehow manage to wait until then.