First 80 Degree Day Of The Year

[Bob_Roller]

Kinda early for this, but got to 82 F 28 C this afternoon .

Leather jacket was almost too warm for the ride home from work .

[nhmaf]

OK, Bob, stop rubbing it in!

Going down to -15F tonight... and that isn't even counting the windchill affect from the 25 MPH winds..

It is going to take all 3 dogs on the bed tonight to stay warm, I'll tell you what...

[montmil]

Here in North Texas, we may hit 80 degrees this weekend. Lottsa sun and upper 70's forecast, but the weather wizards and prognosticators keep bumping up their estimates every few hours.

Planning a lunch run on Saturday with a fellow Airhead whom is still having to "punch the clock" as a working stiff. I'll be out Friday breaking in new piston rings in the '81 R65.

[marcmax]

You mean everyone doesn't have 80's every day, ocean breezes and palm trees?


and now let me don my armor :-)

[thrang]

Now that's just taking the piss Bob! Although its looking like a lovely day here, dry, sunny and warm for the time of year (6c) its still going to cold with a capital F when I take the bikes out for a spin.

Lobs a slushy snow ball in the general direction of a chap in Arizona!

[Justin B.]

You mean everyone doesn't have 80's every day, ocean breezes and palm trees?


and now let me don my armor :-)

Yeah, I remember those Georgia beaches and palm trees, AND the ice-storm that had me stuck in the house without power for several days one winter when I lived in Savannah!

[interiorak]

-44F here this am . . . with no wind chill

[Barry]

-44F here this am . . . with no wind chill Shocked

that's -42 C  !!!!!!

[nhmaf]

Interiorak wins the sweepstakes for coldest temp so far this winter!

We don't often have temps that cold here, but usually have a few days with -25F each winter.    Once it gets down to -35F or so we don't bother to write "F" or "C" because the ranges converge for a bit there, and quite frankly, at -40 degrees, it is too darn cold to do much of anything for very long outdoors!

[Barry]

The coldest I've ever experienced in the UK was -16 C or 3.2 F and that was a very rare event that does not happen often.

The roads weren't fit to travel on so I walked to work in just under an hour and by the time I got there I thought I'd started to learn that cold can be dangerous.  But that was nothing compared to - 40.  I'm astonished that you can survive outdoors in that temperature.

[Lucky_Lou]

The coldest I've ever experienced in the UK was -16 C or 3.2 F and that was a very rare event that does not happen often.

The roads weren't fit to travel on so I walked to work in just under an hour and by the time I got there I thought I'd started to learn that cold can be dangerous.  But that was nothing compared to - 40.  I'm astonished that you can survive outdoors in that temperature.

A few years back we had -22c here and I went to the Yorkshire Bike Forum Christmas dinner at Squires it was -5c at lunch time, I was the only one there on a bike................... pussies
Lou

[montmil]

Beautiful "lunch ride" weather in North Texas this weekend...

Many months ago, Mike Bengt Phorqs Crenshaw and I began assisting friend David with getting his '78 R100/7 road worthy. The bike was purchased sight unseen off the internet -d'oh!- and sat semi-dormant for nearly two years. Cosmetically beautiful, the bike soon exposed a true nightmare of internal neglect and long deferred maintenance.

Suffice to say that many, many hundreds of dollars and similar hours were spent getting this Airhead in good, safe running order. With Saturday's temps in the mid-70s, it was time for the bike's first road ride of any decent mileage.

Here's David with a brace of 1978 Airhead liter bikes: My naked R100S and Dave's latigo-enhanced Slash 7. We enjoyed a fine meal at the old n' funky Magnolia Station Cafe in Pilot Point, Texas. David's bike performed beautifully although he later complained that I rode, "too fast". Me? Not really.

Now trying to talk Phorqs into a mid-week lunch run. Temps continue to rise. Us retired fellas like to skip the weekend bike crowds.

[Justin B.]

I remember participating in a military field problem in Alaska one winter when it got down to -54 F.  The "frost line" on the inside walls of my shop van was about 3' up from the floor.  Luckily it was too cold for our airplanes to fly so we just sat in the vans with our feet up on the work benches and played Risk...

[interiorak]

+40F and freezing rain here today (8->) . . .  suppost snow on top of the rain tonite.  However we just play the "glad" game here in AK as our climate continues to change. At least it's not like a couple years ago . . . and yes this a very accurate fire weatherstation read out . . . from my office in Tok, AK

[Burt]

Damn, that's cold.  

It was 33 deg C yesterday and I worked up a sweat walking from the train station.  Later that night I played squash (sort of like racquet ball) and with the humidity, the sweat was just poring out.  

So when finished was time for a beer and a swim, in that order.