Who's been out this year?

[markjackson]

To make the Australian summer more bearable, consider the (admittedly quite mild) English winter yesterday.


Riding home from B&Q last night (buying metal strip to make sat-nav brackets) and marvelling at how warm and wonderful my new Keis heated jacket is; Just as I opened my visor the bloody gritter wagon went past and slung a lump of rocksalt at my face. Ouch!

Then having to wash the old bus today before the foul salt takes hold of the ally, so all the horrid stuff doesn't turn it to a furry white blob by next weekend.

 

[fayeslane]

It's not that bad for most of us. Where I live, last summer, we had 20 days over 35C and 5 days 40 or over. The further inland you go the hotter it gets but the reality is that most of us live on the edges Yesterday did about 400kms on the 100GS - v cool at 8am, temp peaked at 30 C - beautiful

 

[tuftywhite]

I've been out.

Day out off road yesterday in Wales, then this before my ride home from Machynlleth this morning.

It was a bit of a cold journey. The snow disappeared after about 20 miles.

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[B Murr]

I've been out.

Day out off road yesterday in Wales, then this before my ride home from Machynlleth this morning.

It was a bit of a cold journey. The snow disappeared after about 20 miles.

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Liking the snow shadow, looks like a celtic cross

 

[markjackson]

Liking the snow shadow, looks like a celtic cross

A lady with a massive afro and small feet, doing "I'm a little teapot" hands, surely!


Good snow finding skills tho.


No playing on mine this weekend; the bodywork's off getting all Alinweisse'd.

 

[Stevie4scoops]

I was out with another fellow member of this parish this afternoon around the Malmsbury area. We passed two separate GS's and neither of them returned the the usual bike to bike wave. We were both on KTM's and had left our BMWs at home. Oh well, never mind, I guess we were having more fun than them!

 

[markjackson]

I was out with another fellow member of this parish this afternoon around the Malmsbury area. We passed two separate GS's and neither of them returned the the usual bike to bike wave. We were both on KTM's and had left our BMWs at home. Oh well, never mind, I guess we were having more fun than them!

We shouldn't judge them badly, even though it's downright miserable not to wave at other bikes when there's not many around.

If they were on the latest GSs, maybe they even wanted to wave*, but their high tech prevented it; perhaps were desperately clinging on to their heated grips for warmth, or needing both hands and all their brains to scroll through the modes looking for 'Slippy winter' in the traction settings?





* I bet they were just anti-social people, and should be banished to cars!

 

[Beemerboff]

In Oz the oil and water heads dont acknowledge airheads, and the BMW owners club members dont wave to anyone except other members, so it is only the brotherhood of scruffy old airhead riders who give each other a cheerie wave .
And since I cleaned and tidied up my old G/S I am in danger of getting excommunicated from that lot too!