Boris
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Happy Tuesday, team. I'm getting the yearn pretty bad. Haven't ridden today, and it's only been a couple times this year so far. Fresh snow yesterday and I just don't feel like getting the bike all salty. I meant to jump into this thread before and maybe this is all technically "Off-Topic" because it's not today, but hey.
Last Sunday some friends were meeting up at a bathhouse near Philly. I was already jonesing at that point. It seemed like a good opportunity to run the ST around the highway. And it wasn't the turnpike this time, so even better. As expected, it was so nice to be out on 2 wheels. The arrival time was supposed to be 5, and I was running late, but it's not a super strict kind of thing. The sun was getting lower in the sky, and I finally wrapped up my time on 202 and hit the bridge to PA and entered roads that I had little knowledge of.
This was a surprisingly nice and empty route at this time of day. No time to explore, but I had to stop for this cow statue
Going to this kind of thing by bike ends up being a little bit of a pain, but a practical lesson was had. When I commuted to work in the past I could easily fit my R-3 in the top box. Now I have a different top box with a slightly different form factor that makes it harder to fit. Still, I managed to get all my stuff bagged and boxed so I wouldn't have to try to cram it in the lockers at the bath house.
I was starving by this point, and food was priority.
The bath house was great, and I get to see these friends even less often than I get to ride in the winter.
Everything went great and I was packing up to go. I had expected temperatures of 24, but it never got below 32. Would have been a nice comfortable ride except my hair hadn't dried out as much as I would have liked, so no matter what I did or what amount of heaters I had turned on, my head was cold.
Every year I do less and less riding in the winter. It seems to be more a reflection of my circumstances rather than my willingness to suffer. There's less riding overall throughout the year while I try to make different moves. I spent most of this winter house shopping. Google reminded me of these photos a year after the date (Jan 23). I remember that much suffering was had.
23 Jan 2022
I happened to stop in a friend's house to check in and warm up. We reconnected in a good way, and I bought an ST1300 (see above) for us to ride together, and now buying a house together. All thanks to winter stupidity.
Out of curiousity I went further back to the year before. Several cold rides were had. Not as much snow, but I remember some hairy icy moments on Delaware Water Gap roads.
27 Dec 2020
I could do this for every year, but there's such a variety of winters here and pictures don't always portray the cold. And in the winter I'm often not in the mental state to take more pictures so I always have a scattered few from each year. But on days like today, I'm always happy to have them. So I can sit here and wish I was on a trip, and remember how I felt at the time.
21 Mar 2016
Ride soon.
Last Sunday some friends were meeting up at a bathhouse near Philly. I was already jonesing at that point. It seemed like a good opportunity to run the ST around the highway. And it wasn't the turnpike this time, so even better. As expected, it was so nice to be out on 2 wheels. The arrival time was supposed to be 5, and I was running late, but it's not a super strict kind of thing. The sun was getting lower in the sky, and I finally wrapped up my time on 202 and hit the bridge to PA and entered roads that I had little knowledge of.
This was a surprisingly nice and empty route at this time of day. No time to explore, but I had to stop for this cow statue
Going to this kind of thing by bike ends up being a little bit of a pain, but a practical lesson was had. When I commuted to work in the past I could easily fit my R-3 in the top box. Now I have a different top box with a slightly different form factor that makes it harder to fit. Still, I managed to get all my stuff bagged and boxed so I wouldn't have to try to cram it in the lockers at the bath house.
I was starving by this point, and food was priority.
The bath house was great, and I get to see these friends even less often than I get to ride in the winter.
Everything went great and I was packing up to go. I had expected temperatures of 24, but it never got below 32. Would have been a nice comfortable ride except my hair hadn't dried out as much as I would have liked, so no matter what I did or what amount of heaters I had turned on, my head was cold.
Every year I do less and less riding in the winter. It seems to be more a reflection of my circumstances rather than my willingness to suffer. There's less riding overall throughout the year while I try to make different moves. I spent most of this winter house shopping. Google reminded me of these photos a year after the date (Jan 23). I remember that much suffering was had.
23 Jan 2022
I happened to stop in a friend's house to check in and warm up. We reconnected in a good way, and I bought an ST1300 (see above) for us to ride together, and now buying a house together. All thanks to winter stupidity.
Out of curiousity I went further back to the year before. Several cold rides were had. Not as much snow, but I remember some hairy icy moments on Delaware Water Gap roads.
27 Dec 2020
I could do this for every year, but there's such a variety of winters here and pictures don't always portray the cold. And in the winter I'm often not in the mental state to take more pictures so I always have a scattered few from each year. But on days like today, I'm always happy to have them. So I can sit here and wish I was on a trip, and remember how I felt at the time.
21 Mar 2016
Ride soon.