Who Rode Today?

[Tony Nitrous]

We've had highs in the 30's and lows in the teens, with alot of wind, for the last couple of weeks...makes it a little less desireable to go out.

It’s 32 C here this morning, 90 degrees F. Not stupid hot for us but still very humid.

I’ve been pushing a lawn mower around some shrubs and trees, and in the hen pen where I can’t get the tractor and slasher or ride on mower. If I leave it it only gets harder to do and there’s rain forecast for next week. I’m now soaked in sweat!

I do a 4.5 K / 2.8 mile walk with the dog every morning. Even that seemed hard work. We have temps much higher here but the humidity is really up there at the moment.

 

[CBXRider]

Days have been in the 50s and low 30s at night around here. Glacier Pt. Road in the Park and three of the best Sierra passes are closed for the winter but it’s still a mile high and snowy about 15 miles away. The foothills are always available and I can still ride quite a ways up any of the passes but not completely over. The snow line is it. The point at which they decide they’re not going to plow anymore. So….I can always head west I suppose. Cold but not snowing over there.

 

[Red05]

Great pics Wuzz

 

[Oz22]

You can remove the black plastic piece under the nose, it's just held in with push-pins.
Then easily reach the triple-clamp bolts from underneath.

Yeah I got that one first but kept going as I have a radiator guard I've not yet fitted. I have to get the cowling away from the radiator, can't even see any attachment points yet. As for the lower fork bolts, the LHS ones weren't loose but they weren't tight, a bit of pressure and they moved. 23Nm is the torque, I'll reset them all soon but I pushed the bike aside once I knew the issue and started riding my RR for a bit. No rush hey

 

[Oz22]

It’s 32 C here this morning, 90 degrees F. Not stupid hot for us but still very humid.

Yeah, yesterday was crazy! @ 2pm here in rural SEQ it was 38 and 42% and my Davis weather station said Dangerously High heat IDX. Never seen that alert on it before? Humidity is the killer.

 

[sixpack577]

Yeah, yesterday was crazy! @ 2pm here in rural SEQ it was 38 and 42% and my Davis weather station said Dangerously High heat IDX. Never seen that alert on it before? Humidity is the killer.

42% humidity, lol...that's low here

 

[SSGT_B]

97% Humidity and 58 deg when I rode into work this morning. Welcome to Texas.

 

[sixpack577]

It got up to 65° yesterday, but I had things to do.
By last night it was mid 50's, and I had to take the trash off, which is a 10 mile round trip...so I took the Goldwing, and the long way around, 33 miles.
This at a local dam, Leesville Lake, not a great picture, but a nice evening to get out, especially after 2 weeks of highs in the 40's and lows in the teens and 20's.

 

[Oz22]

42% humidity, lol...that's low here

Yeah, but not when it's 38-deg-C I'll bet, that's 100F. The higher the temp the lower the humidity, all things being equal. The later in the day, the lower too. It's midday now, 26-C and 87%H but it's raining somewhat

 

[CBXRider]

It still seems weird to me that our seasons are opposite. A friend lives in Wales which is an 8 hour time difference. When it’s winter here it’s winter there. But you guys are so far away there isn’t just a time difference, there’s a seasonal difference. December here is wintertime but it’s summer where you are. Your winter is in July?

 

[Tony Nitrous]

It still seems weird to me that our seasons are opposite. A friend lives in Wales which is an 8 hour time difference. When it’s winter here it’s winter there. But you guys are so far away there isn’t just a time difference, there’s a seasonal difference. December here is wintertime but it’s summer where you are. Your winter is in July?

December to February is summer; March to May is autumn; June to August is winter; and September to November is spring.

But it’s a bit more different than that. Often our Winters can be cool and dry, so not bad for bikes. Summers up here in QLD can be stinking hot and humid, and our Wild Storm season. Not unusual to hear rides say they prefer Winter.
(Winter in Qld, haven’t seen a frost in 20 years)

Just to add to the mix, Australia is huge like the US, but the other way around. You can go ski’ing on slopes down South, whilst it’s still hot in the tropics up North.

I’ve worked with guys in their 60’s that have never seen snow!

I’m a Pommie by birth, I love Australia but it can take some getting used to having grow up in the UK. (I’ve done a 590 mile ride on a Saturday to meet mates in the pub, Longer distances to get to work, longer to see my wife’s family, longer to my wife’s daughter or a friends wedding. Distances that wouldn’t be rare to an American, but to many English would be rare heading across Europe)

 

[Bumblebee]

December to February is summer; March to May is autumn; June to August is winter; and September to November is spring.

But it’s a bit more different than that. Often our Winters can be cool and dry, so not bad for bikes. Summers up here in QLD can be stinking hot and humid, and our Wild Storm season. Not unusual to hear rides say they prefer Winter.
(Winter in Qld, haven’t seen a frost in 20 years)

Just to add to the mix, Australia is huge like the US, but the other way around. You can go ski’ing on slopes down South, whilst it’s still hot in the tropics up North.

I’ve worked with guys in their 60’s that have never seen snow!

I’m a Pommie by birth, I love Australia but it can take some getting used to having grow up in the UK. (I’ve done a 590 mile ride on a Saturday to meet mates in the pub, Longer distances to get to work, longer to see my wife’s family, longer to my wife’s daughter or a friends wedding. Distances that wouldn’t be rare to an American, but to many English would be rare heading across Europe)

It's interesting when it come to various countries.

We have a training base in Alberta which is as large as all the training bases used by UK troops combined.....there was a time when UK troops used this base for training.

I was there for a year and I overheard a couple young UK troops talking about a trip they were going to take to Toronto (Ontario) on the upcoming long weekend (3 days).

I asked them if they knew how far Toronto was from where we are now, they didn't and I said if they all took turns driving and didn't stop, it would take them 3 days to get there......then I said to go on Google maps and verify that....they did and planned another shorter trip.

They didn't get just how vast Canada is.

I recall conducting an exercise with the Australian special ops guys and we went days and days without seeing any settlements in the outback......that's a vast place as well.

 

[sixpack577]

Yeah, but not when it's 38-deg-C I'll bet, that's 100F. The higher the temp the lower the humidity, all things being equal. The later in the day, the lower too. It's midday now, 26-C and 87%H but it's raining somewhat

100°F with humidity as close to 100% without it raining is common here in the summers, and 50-70% is normal year round.

 

[SSGT_B]

100°F with humidity as close to 100% without it raining is common here in the summers, and 50-70% is normal year round.

^^^^^^^
THIS

 

[Bumblebee]

100°F with humidity as close to 100% without it raining is common here in the summers, and 50-70% is normal year round.

^^^^^^^
THIS

Wow, I'll stick to living here in the north where we do get high humidity in the summer but for short periods....

The downside is having the bike stored for 5+months but then getting it out again is more exciting....

 

[sixpack577]

Wow, I'll stick to living here in the north where we do get high humidity in the summer but for short periods....

The downside is having the bike stored for 5+months but then getting it out again is more exciting....

Lol, whenever the humidity is low here, it's 30-40%, and not that often.
We did have a Very dry/low humidity summer this year though, but with extreme heat, as most nights it barely cooled down at all, even at 3am it was 90°, and normally it's much cooler after sunset.
The upside is you never know what you're going to get, as we get 70-80° degree days with 40-60% humidity year round.
It could literally snow today and be 80 tomorrow.
It's great though on a random weekday in the dead of winter, to take a vacation day from work and go riding(which I do regardless of weather, but warm is always nicer).

 

[Bumblebee]

Lol, whenever the humidity is low here, it's 30-40%, and not that often.
We did have a Very dry/low humidity summer this year though, but with extreme heat, as most nights it barely cooled down at all, even at 3am it was 90°, and normally it's much cooler after sunset.
The upside is you never know what you're going to get, as we get 70-80° degree days with 40-60% humidity year round.
It could literally snow today and be 80 tomorrow.
It's great though on a random weekday in the dead of winter, to take a vacation day from work and go riding(which I do regardless of weather, but warm is always nicer).

That's a rollercoaster for weather....

I've ridden here as late as November....one year I rode on the 20th of November which is rare and I've ridden as early as late March but anything in between is snowmobile weather...

I had a colleague that rode his BMW Paris Dakar bike in the middle of winter a few times but only within a subdivision, never on a busy road just in case.....that thing had so many crash bars that he could slide it down the road and only have to repaint the bars where it slid......he was a bit of a nut....before our military got rid of them, he was a combat dispatch rider....

 

[sixpack577]

That's a rollercoaster for weather....

I've ridden here as late as November....one year I rode on the 20th of November which is rare and I've ridden as early as late March but anything in between is snowmobile weather...

I had a colleague that rode his BMW Paris Dakar bike in the middle of winter a few times but only within a subdivision, never on a busy road just in case.....that thing had so many crash bars that he could slide it down the road and only have to repaint the bars where it slid......he was a bit of a nut....before our military got rid of them, he was a combat dispatch rider....

Here it's just life.
My first real sportbike was a '94 zx7 about 25 or 26 years ago.
Brought it home in a pickup truck, unloaded it on dirt ramp(cut out and hard packed, with a short trail that circled back to the driveway) at a friend's house...and into the snow(that was either November or Febuary, I can no longer remember, lol)
I dodged in and out of the snow and ice patches on the road home...then went back out riding, lots of drifts and slides, lol.
I used to 'ride' dirtbikes in the snow and ice, if you want to call spinning and sliding riding, but you get a feel for it, and have to put a foot down often.
Kind of like how I learned to drift a streetbike, which was on wet roads, much easier to spin that hook and high side.

 

[Bumblebee]

Here it's just life.
My first real sportbike was a '94 zx7 about 25 or 26 years ago.
Brought it home in a pickup truck, unloaded it on dirt ramp(cut out and hard packed, with a short trail that circled back to the driveway) at a friend's house...and into the snow(that was either November or Febuary, I can no longer remember, lol)
I dodged in and out of the snow and ice patches on the road home...then went back out riding, lots of drifts and slides, lol.
I used to 'ride' dirtbikes in the snow and ice, if you want to call spinning and sliding riding, but you get a feel for it, and have to put a foot down often.
Kind of like how I learned to drift a streetbike, which was on wet roads, much easier to spin that hook and high side.

One warm April day I rode my bike to work....by the time I got done work, there was 6 inches of snow....I rode my bike home in it but it was a chore...I think that was my FZR1K if I remember correctly.......

One of the MPs noticed me and followed me home to make sure I made it.....the next morning there wasn't a flake of snow to be seen and it was 70' out......thankfully the salt trucks weren't out so my bike was just wet, not salty......I'm too OCD to let them get covered in road salt.

 

[sixpack577]

One warm April day I rode my bike to work....by the time I got done work, there was 6 inches of snow....I rode my bike home in it but it was a chore...I think that was my FZR1K if I remember correctly.......

One of the MPs noticed me and followed me home to make sure I made it.....the next morning there wasn't a flake of snow to be seen and it was 70' out......thankfully the salt trucks weren't out so my bike was just wet, not salty......I'm too OCD to let them get covered in road salt.

I've be caught in the snow on a streetbike a couple of times, packabale wet snow, and a chore is right, lol, both feet on the ground and the front end floating around.
Sometimes the dirtbikes went well, but more often they did not, it just depended on how wet or dry the snow was.