From: dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX (The dc-cycles list administrator) To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Errors-To: dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX Subject: dc-cycles digest for 12/22/05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __ /-----\ __ 'dc-cycles' is an unmoderated email discussion list (__\/ _____ \/__) about motorcycling in the Washington D.C. area. =( \___/ )= \ ___ / An archive of the dc-cycles list is available at: | / _ \ | http://www.dc-cycles.org/ \ || || / \|| ||/ Subscribe/unsubscribe requests should be sent to: \| |/ dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX |_| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] Anyone out there? Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:43:33 -0500 From: "Julian Halton" To: "James O'Connor" , "Michael Jordan" , "DC-Cycles" It has been very, very cold. I find the difference between warm tires and cold tires markedly more noticeable on my new ride. I am on an 05 R1 with Pilot Powers. The gravel and occasional ice patches keep things very sedate and I am in commuter mode. Of course the hands are still my weak point. I have found a fairly good combination for the time being: Polar Tech runners gloves stuck into my Held Galaxy gloves. This allows me to tolerably find my way from Bethesda back to VA at two in the morning. The deer have been hiding out of sight lately which is a blessing for me. If there is enough interest, we should arrange a lunch on a Bike show day. Julian Halton Group Logic julian@XXXXXX 703.527.7979 x 2338 -----Original Message----- From: James O'Connor [mailto:axledeep@XXXXXX] To: Michael Jordan; DC-Cycles Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Anyone out there? I am here. By the time my fingers thaw in the morning, I'm engrossed in work (yeah right) and forget to strike up conversation. Gerbing electric glove liners should be here any day now.....thankfully. Don't recall last winter being so brutal on my hands, and that was before I put the huge hand guards on the bike :\ - Jimmy --- Michael Jordan wrote: > It's been vewwy, vewwy quiet... > > -- > Michael J. > '86 SRX-6 > '93 GSX1100G > '03 DL1000 > AMA > IBA #3901 > USAF (Ret) > NRA > etc. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:54:10 -0500 From: Mike Troutman To: DCCycles Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Anyone out there? I have been on extensive travel, and haven't even seen my bikes in two weeks. I drove my truck in to work today, and the back roads I take are covered with ice on 3 curves. Fat lot of good my heated gear is doing me at this moment in time. _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:39:31 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: =?ISO646-US?Q?Re:_RE:_[dc-cycles]_=3FAnyone_out_there=3F?= To: DC-Cycles >From: Julian Halton >Date: Thu Dec 22 07:43:33 CST 2005 >To: James O'Connor , Michael Jordan , DC-Cycles >Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] Anyone out there? >It has been very, very cold. I find the difference between warm tires >and cold tires markedly more noticeable on my new ride. I am on an 05 >R1 with Pilot Powers. The gravel and occasional ice patches keep things >very sedate and I am in commuter mode. Of course the hands are still my >weak point. >I have found a fairly good combination for the time being: Polar Tech >runners gloves stuck into my Held Galaxy gloves. This allows me to >tolerably find my way from Bethesda back to VA at two in the morning. >The deer have been hiding out of sight lately which is a blessing for >me. > >If there is enough interest, we should arrange a lunch on a Bike show >day. > ..ok, I admit it. I'm a super turbo power wussy when it comes to cold weather. Ain't NO WAY I'll ride in this kind of weather. I used to ride all year around but that was when I was in the military and my (ex) wife needed the car to go to work and the only thing we could afford was a Kawasaki 454LTD. Froze my bleeps off and vowed if I ever got to a better financial situation, I would use my bike for purely recreational riding. I can't count how many times during those days that I rocketed to pucker factor 10,000 going around a corner and feeling my front end slide on black ice. I do admit thought that I would always arrive to work WIDE AWAKE after a 45 minute 25mph butt clenching, teeth chattering ride to work. So...now I go out, start the car, turn on the stereo and turn the seat warmer half way up and sip on my java. When the leaves turn green, I'll take my bike off the lift, unplug the Battery Tender and go for a ride...a recreational ride thankyouverymuch. :-) -aki _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:13:01 -0800 (PST) From: matthew patton Subject: Re: RE: [dc-cycles] ?Anyone out there? To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX This is great riding time. Every time I'm stuck in traffic I fantasize about blasting by all the cars. Both of my bikes are down at the moment - the WR for a bum headlight, and the SV for a rear tire getting close to the cords and brakepads about paper thin (oops). Plus I'm hauling my little boy around and doing some Christmas shopping which frequently entails boxes a little big bigger than I can handle on the SV.