Emerging From A Long Winter

[Rocky]

Springtime here in eastern Canada, and being right on the cold North Atlantic, struggles to let go of winter. We had a relatively mild winter, and the snow is long gone, only to be replaced with warm days, cold days, and wet days - repeat, repeat.
In spite of that, a few of my buddies have pulled their bikes out of storage and wait for that warmish day to take short ride - or as long as the body can stand the temperature.
Last week, three of them met at a local donut shop for coffee, but I'm giving it a couple of weeks before I start rolling wheels.

 

[Rudie]

Springtime here in eastern Canada, and being right on the cold North Atlantic, struggles to let go of winter. warm days, cold days, and wet days - repeat, repeat.

Same here in the (northern) UK. Must be global warming ...

 

[solomon]

Last week, three of them met at a local donut shop for coffee

What's the bike on RHS?

 

[Rudie]

What's the bike on RHS?

If you right-click on the image, a "context menu" should be displayed; click on "Open image in new tab" and the image appears larger in the new tab than in @Rocky's post, you can see the Matchless tank badge.

 

[DoorPosition]

We’re pretty blessed where I’m at- Eastern-Central NC. It only gets consistently too cold to ride like around FEB for maybe a month or so. Other than that you can pretty much expect to get regular rides in every week. You rarely go over 3 days unable to ride. With heated gear about the only thing that could ground you is a snowstorm, of which we get maybe once or twice a year. We’re really easing into things this year. It’s still jacket weather and the 2 week outlook is saying it will stay that way for at least another 10 days.

 

[DaveM]

Some nice bikes already out and about and I bet having to store them for winter people cannot wait to be able to ride again.

 

[CarlS]

I took my first longer ride last Friday two up. Rode down to Homestead and back, 105 miles / 169 kilometers. I'm slowly getting back in shape.

 

[Rocky]

Great to hear that you're bouncing back so well. 105 miles is a fairly long ride after what you have been through. Good for you

 

[CarlS]

Great to hear that you're bouncing back so well. 105 miles is a fairly long ride after what you have been through. Good for you

Thank you, Rocky.

 

[guscar65]

Springtime here in eastern Canada, and being right on the cold North Atlantic, struggles to let go of winter. We had a relatively mild winter, and the snow is long gone, only to be replaced with warm days, cold days, and wet days - repeat, repeat.
In spite of that, a few of my buddies have pulled their bikes out of storage and wait for that warmish day to take short ride - or as long as the body can stand the temperature.
Last week, three of them met at a local donut shop for coffee, but I'm giving it a couple of weeks before I start rolling wheels.


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our second time out wednesday---temp. fell like a stone over Glendevon---picked up a bit by the time we got to the coffee stop in Comrie----light rain just made our mind up and we turned for home ----early bath as they say. Hoping for better , but this coming week no better. That AJS takes me back---bought one (a 250) in a box of bits back in '67 --eventually managed to assemble it----looked handsome, but was a big bike for a 250 (I seem to remember that the engine block was a sleeved down 500 ) anyway it only fired every lampost , too much 'character' (OK vibration).