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Offline twowheeladdict

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The day I should have taken the car.
« on: December 20, 2022, 07:00:09 AM »


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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2022, 07:17:02 AM »
Shake it off.
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2022, 07:32:22 AM »
Heated grips just weren't hot enough.
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2022, 07:36:28 AM »
Light persipatation my Azz.
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2022, 07:36:28 AM »

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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2022, 07:49:02 AM »




That is definitely a climate that I DON'T WANT TO LIVE...in my old age!!   :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh: :wink:
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2022, 08:01:34 AM »
"I only have one item on my bucket list. I never want to be cold again."

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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2022, 10:27:13 AM »
 C Coli has a real photo like this of his bike after arriving home in WI from the Swamp Scooter Rally one year,maybe he’ll post it.

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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2022, 10:41:43 AM »
LOL

This is the day after Labor Day, 2020 in Cody, Wyoming.  "Freak snowstorm", they said.  After this, they got 18".

The weatherman is forecasting snow here - and some below zero temps for Thursday and Friday.  Just in time for Christmas !
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2022, 11:00:44 AM »
BRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2022, 11:25:39 AM »
"I only have one item on my bucket list. I never want to be cold again."

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Yes!!!!   Thank you Mr. Cleese...and I AGREE!! :bow: :thumb: :cool: :boozing: :shocked: :rolleyes: :huh:
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2022, 01:09:24 PM »




I rode my V7 Sport through the mountains from Knoxville to Spartanburg at Christmas in 94 and I looked very close to that by the time I was going through Maggie Valley on I-40. No plows had touched the road, pretty normal back then.  There were at least 3-4 inches of nasty slush on 40 there and I had actual chunks on my legs and bike.  I’m sure some passing vehicles got great pleasure from showering me with even more nasty as they went by me.  Not the coldest ride ever but very easily the nastiest and most treacherous. 

Sure was nice to come down off the mountain into SC into balmy 45-50F temps.
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2022, 01:13:17 PM »
Some of my best trips I wouldn’t even remember if I’d been in a car.  Washington pass in a blinding snow storm ,
14” of rain in ten hours in Louisiana. Couldn’t get any wetter. Out running tornados in Oklahoma. Parboiled in the desert. It’s all part of the fun..
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2022, 06:42:38 PM »
We prefer to call it a character building experience.
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Re: The day I should have taken the car.
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2022, 07:17:34 PM »
True, John. Richard Bach once said, "A day not remembered is a day not worth living"  You *remember* experiences like that. I remember many.  :smiley:  To me, most motorcycle trips are memorable.. :thumb:
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