With brick ride-time right around the corner

[tsbt]

I keep checking under the bike cover to see how she looks. It's like I forgot. Which makes no sense because it hasn't been that long since I rode her. Can't wait for a break in the weather and a warm shed to work on that new tranny leak :yes  :mbird

[grant71]

hi. i dont know how you can stand long cold dark winters. i live in Capetown and can ride practically every day. i lived in London for afew years. came  back to sunny SA. DEPRESSING WINTER..i realize that you live  in a sophisticated country compared to this  banana republic.

[kightboy]

First bike i ever had. 1967.  Black Yamaha 100 TWIN.  (wish I had photos of that)
It had cylinders about the size of a quarter.  top speed 47 mph IF I was leaning over the handlebars to cut the wind. 
I was 16.  Had "real" motorcycle gloves with fringe hanging off the cuffs and rode it to High School (a ride of 15 miles or so) in Rudyard, Michigan. 
I was the only one in the whole school that rode a motorcycle.  Lived in Sault Ste. Marie.  In my head I was about the coolest.  Dad wouldn't let me grow my hair long and have Beatle-like hair so I would let it grow and comb it back when at home and have bangs when i got to school - Had to wait until we moved back to Calif. to actually get hippie-hair.    Airforce Captain he was - Kincheloe AFB - pretty stern old dude all frozen-up inside and permanently grouchy.
Couldn't STAND not being able to ride in the freezing snow.  Hauled that bike out of the basement on the first sunny day in March.  Got about 1/2 mile down the road and found myself sliding smoothly down the road on my butt next to the bike which was also sliding smoothly down the road on about inch-thick smooth ice. 
Learned something that day and humbly put the undamaged bike back in the garage and waited two more months for the ice to melt.  I still remember the smell of that motorcycle when I would walk into the basement and look at it longingly.  Some things never really change...  At 62 I still have long hair...    : )

[tsbt]

hi. i dont know how you can stand long cold dark winters. i live in Capetown and can ride practically every day. i lived in London for afew years. came  back to sunny SA. DEPRESSING WINTER..i realize that you live  in a sophisticated country compared to this  banana republic.

I was in Capetown about a year ago. Loved it there. Touring around the coastlines I can only imagine what riding there would be like. SA is an awesome place.

First bike i ever had. 1967.  Black Yamaha 100 TWIN.  (wish I had photos of that)
It had cylinders about the size of a quarter.  top speed 47 mph IF I was leaning over the handlebars to cut the wind. 
I was 16.  Had "real" motorcycle gloves with fringe hanging off the cuffs and rode it to High School (a ride of 15 miles or so) in Rudyard, Michigan. 
I was the only one in the whole school that rode a motorcycle.  Lived in Sault Ste. Marie.  In my head I was about the coolest.  Dad wouldn't let me grow my hair long and have Beatle-like hair so I would let it grow and comb it back when at home and have bangs when i got to school - Had to wait until we moved back to Calif. to actually get hippie-hair.    Airforce Captain he was - Kincheloe AFB - pretty stern old dude all frozen-up inside and permanently grouchy.
Couldn't STAND not being able to ride in the freezing snow.  Hauled that bike out of the basement on the first sunny day in March.  Got about 1/2 mile down the road and found myself sliding smoothly down the road on my butt next to the bike which was also sliding smoothly down the road on about inch-thick smooth ice. 
Learned something that day and humbly put the undamaged bike back in the garage and waited two more months for the ice to melt.  I still remember the smell of that motorcycle when I would walk into the basement and look at it longingly.  Some things never really change...  At 62 I still have long hair...    : )

Great story Knightboy. I can relate to the ice but only on four wheels. I'm gun shy about two wheels until March. Although the city puts so much salt on the roads I could probably tour most of Toronto without a slip! Thanks for sharing.