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Author Topic: dammed weather!  (Read 1728 times)

thrang

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dammed weather!
« on: April 05, 2008, 10:26:36 AM »
Hey Gang,
Since the RT needed a new back boot I took a run down to Ulverston (thats where Stan Laural was from) and got a replacement Conti (TLK 112 if anyones intrested) put on the rim for £64.00 inc VAT.

Although the forcast is not good for this evening the weather was nice, quite sunny and bright between the clouds. The run back the long way is a nice 25 mile ride up the east side of Windermere via Ambleside  to Langdale and I was happy to sit in traffic and pootle home. Normally I would have taken the road from Greenod to Coniston but on an unscrubbed in back tyre that road is just to much of a temptation to play and pranging a bike because a tyre still has a silicon coating on it is not something I want on my riding history! Anyway the plan was to get home and change out all the oils. Nothing unusual there, well sods law stepped in just as I had everything draining into the waste pans because the bright weather evaporate when it started hailing!

Sometimes I really hate not having a garage, and its not like I can get the RT in the shed as thats full of a half assembled Bimbo... (A project that has ground to a halt just now owning to a lack of funds after I had to buy the wife's zephyr a new exhaust system which took a £400 bite out the bike repair fund)

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Re: dammed weather!
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2008, 01:43:14 PM »
That's why I moved to the middle of the desert !

Clear, sunny for 330 days a year !

Current weather at just before noon local time : clear, sunny, 80 F., 12 % humidity, winds from the south at 8 mph.

Perfect day to ride, and I have another one of my 18 hour workdays today.
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Re: dammed weather!
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2008, 05:24:12 PM »
Here's a couple O photos to go with Bob's weather report. Taken this afternoon in Feenix. It was so nice folks were even riding animals, imagine that!
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2008, 05:55:52 PM »
Grrr - we've had a week of 40-50 F degree weather, with a couple days of heavy rain, and still have between 2 - 3 feet of snow on the lawn, and the snowbanks from where I've plowed the road are at least down below 6 feet high...   Our lake is still frozen over, though at least I can see some spots of water along the edges.  On the plus side, the road out to the (bare) paved road is almost passable now.
It is very very muddy and wet, but there is just 1 patch  (about 40 feet long) of ice left.   It is on a hill too, so I'm going to have to wait at least another couple days before I attempt to take Tillie out to the tarmac...


At this point, our state (New Hampshire) has had the 2nd snowiest winter since they started recording annual snowfall amounts back in the mid-1800s.
Our capital (where they measure/record the snowfall amount) is a bit south of our house and they have received a bit less than what we have.   We are
already up to 120 " (over 3 metres) of snow from late November til April 1st.
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Re: dammed weather!
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2008, 06:01:06 PM »
Nhmaf,
Did I forget to mention that I had my mesh jacket on today? I'll get my digs while I can because come the height of summer I'd give a lot to be riding in the green green hills and valleys of New Hampshire. You can get me back with some photos then!!
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Re: dammed weather!
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2008, 06:33:09 PM »
Rich,

Were those photos taken at the west end of South Mountain Park ?
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« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2008, 07:10:14 PM »
Whine!!!!!!!!!!

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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2008, 08:03:22 PM »
Bob, YES! at the end of South mountain park, San Juan road I think it's called. Ed, You can only come back if you get a nice cabin up on the Mogollon rim so we have a cool place to ride to in the triple digit summer weather [smiley=happy.gif]
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Re: dammed weather!
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2008, 10:50:59 PM »
FWIW, I've been out to the park west of feenix - called "White Tank", I think ?

My wife is actually headed out at the end of this month to visit her brother in Glendale for a week - he and his wife have
just had their first baby.   I am staying at home to do spring cleanup (I hope !) and baby-sit our golden retriever (and of course,
get in some bike riding, dammit !!!)
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Re: dammed weather!
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2008, 12:13:40 AM »
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Hey Gang,
Since the RT needed a new back boot I took a run down to Ulverston (thats where Stan Laural was from) and got a replacement Conti (TLK 112 if anyones intrested) put on the rim for £64.00 inc VAT.
(A project that has ground to a halt just now owning to a lack of funds after I had to buy the wife's zephyr a new exhaust system which took a £400 bite out the bike repair fund)

"Another fine mess youve gotten us into Thrang" ;D
I had to sell my beemer to pay uncle sam :(
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Re: dammed weather!
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2008, 03:19:51 AM »
The fine mess was the inside of my 'service' tool box which of course had to be open when it started hailing.