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.