There is no getting away from it.....it had to happen eventually

[Rocky]

Well....it finally happened.....it was 0C (32F) this morning when I got up - frost on everything
By noon it should be about 9C (48F), but riding days are all but over for me.
I'll take the H***A and the T100 out this week for a squirt to warm the oil before changing it, and then it's inside the warm and dry basement until next march.
The beauty of being retired is that I can ride at any time or day I want and don't have to push the season into November or get an early start in the spring.
Don't feel sorry for me. It's a fact of life when you live in a northen latitude and just part of living here.
But next March can't come soon enough :ya2:

 

[DaveM]

Well being the hot blooded Canadian that you are a bit of sub 0 temps should not be a show stopper However I still feel sorry for you in the end :y18:

 

[Rocky]

Yeah....in January or February when I'm up to my knees in snow I may tend to agree with you :ya2:
It's the changing of the season; the bikes get put away and the smowblower is hauled out for serviving and preperation for winter.
It is what it is, sigh!

 

[The Seeker]

Don't feel badly Rocky....I'm ahead of you here. We've had lots of frosty mornings recently and even snow one evening. It's warmed-up a bit just this week, but rain is on it's way.

 

[DaveM]

Sound like those hot beds they used to have in the Navy, one leave to make room for another. Rocky I have always been meaning to ask you what time does the sun set and rise during the winter months.

 

[CarlS]

Rocky, I am sorry your riding season is ending. I would flat go crazy. It will be in the upper 80's here today.

 

[Rocky]

Carl, you sure know how to hurt a guy
Dave, we change to daylight saving time this coming weekend (clocks go back one hour) and after 21 December the daylight hours start to get longer.
At this latitude it's pretty much dark at 5:00 PM on 21 December and the sun is coming up around 7:15 AM. At the peak of winter we have about 11 hours of complete darkness.
Time to stock up on whale blubber and seal oil for the old igloo

 

[CarlS]

Here the sun is setting around 19:20 and rising around 06:50. On Dec 21st it rises about 07:15 and sets about 17:40. Like in the tropics, we have almost no twilight. When the sun goes down it is dark an just a few minutes.

 

[DaveM]

Rocky that is not bad at all I thought your days would be much shorter than that

 

[dazco]

Hmmmm.i guess i better not talk about the weather here in so cal, eh? :ya2:

 

[Rocky]

Yeah, yeah Daz, we know how nice it is in southern California - and we're jealous :y114:
I'll be thinking of you in the darkness of January and February :ya2:
Dave, one thing about the winter darkness is that it happens at night when we don't notice it so much

 

[DaveM]

[quote author=Rocky link=topic=7522.msg40906#msg40906 date=1256668837]
Dave, one thing about the winter darkness is that it happens at night when we don't notice it so much
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:y24: :y24: :y24:

 

[dragline]

Rocky ,

I know how you feel , we had snow here , think it was 1976
about .2 fell here , in Tampa Florida .
Damn near moved to Canada to get away from all the
Canuka's moving south

Wayne

 

[The Seeker]

[quote author=dragline708 link=topic=7522.msg41195#msg41195 date=1257461234]
we had snow here , think it was 1976
about .2 fell here , in Tampa Florida .
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That must have been really a famous event.....when visiting my Mom in Bradenton Beach, a local guy who came to repair a water line was telling me about that same snowfall.

Had I known that water lines in Florida are only about 10-12 inches deep (and made of PLASTIC), I would have repaired it myself. Here in the North, code is to bury water lines below the frost line which is a minimum of 3 feet...and plastic is out of the question.

 

[CarlS]

AJ, we had snow on the ground in St Augustine on Christmas day in 1988. It was about 1/4 inch. The roads were also iced. The bridges were all closed. There was no means to cope with the ice; it just had to melt. On the main bridges over the ICW, they dumped sand with dump trucks to make them passable.

 

[gumpt1oo]

It's happened here too! We have had 2 frosts this week, had to scrape the ice from the car windows before going to work. It soon warms up though, it has been about 10deg C all week, but it has been raining heavy for most of it!
I have just heard of the council's latest 'half baked idea' of treating the roads with a mollasses based solution to stop them freezing.
Sounds better that rock salt, until you consider that one of the favourite things a sheep likes to eat is mollasses! We have hundreds of sheep that roam free across the moors and hills. I can see lots of 'road kill' in the future! h:

 

[CarlS]

Seems to me it would be kind of hazardous and slippery for bikes.

 

[The Seeker]

I always thought molasses was rather slippery stuff????

 

[Pooksta]

Scuse me!

Wot's SNOW?????

Lee :ya2:

 

[CarlS]

That is my question, too, Lee. :y114: