Originally Posted by kwjones
The world is in bloom! Spring is here! The birds chirp and the bees buzz and everything is alive! It's so lovely!
...or it would be if I wasn't a scratching, sniveling, miserable, unable to breathe lump of excessive nap-taking thanks to allergies.
My motorcycle mileage for the weekend is a hair over 75 miles, which would be pathetic except when you consider how much medication I had to pump myself full of to get to that point. Needless to say, there was no working
I wound up wimping out after about 75 miles yesterday. I never got sufficiently warmed up. I stopped for sushi with some friends before going home, and when I left after the sun had gone down, I regretted not stopping at home for the car first. It was cold and the bike was pissed at me.
When I got home, I had a brilliant idea. BreatheRight and ThermaCare need to team up and produce heated nasal strips that you can stick on your nose under a helmet. I have that wonderful pinlock
I have lost my tolerance for cold. I didn't ride much over the winter because it was always snowing. Now, even with proper gear, I can't bring msyelf to start my planned ride today until it reaches the mid 40's. It's 34 right now. I need to find the thick, human-space-heater skin that always has me commuting so late into the season in fall, on mornings in the mid 20's. That hasn't come out of hibernation yet. In any case, when I do get out there today, I think it will be a day for my beloved
Well, why not. I have some very specific goals with my riding this year, so I may as well document them here.
Most of my riding is either my daily commute, when I can be counted on to take the long way home, but this never leads to me encountering any serious twisties. Most of my leisure riding is farm country. It's closer to me than PA's (or WV's, or VA's, etc.) twisties and if I'm busy and only have time for a short ride, my options are to tool around in PA farmland, or rush
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