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Long Cold Winter…
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:28 pm
by phil
I am just like most of you, I have a mortgage, bills, work and family obligations, the list is long indeed. For those of you who live where the roads never freeze, today I envy you. My beloved machine is in the solitary confinement of my garage. My driveway is lined on both sides by banks of snow placed there by a snow-blower. Icy patches shine like cancerous lesions all over the roads. I yearn to expel the poisons of the day, wring the neck of the dragons of must dos and the demons of frustration. My leathers hang in a dark closet, my helmet and boots gather dust. I ache to put them on, letting the sun warm the black leather as air passes over it. I want to view the hill towns of western MA and up state New York through a face shield. Nothing on this Earth can straighten my mood like a curvy road…
Re: Long Cold Winter…
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:42 pm
by pebmr
Phil:
I feel your pain
. It's another night of -5 to -20 F here in MN! I've been keeping my interest up by reading ride reports and looking for things to make my spring ride more enjoyable. I've got a new Odyssey battery to install along with quick disconnects, and a new pair of Sidi boots are in the mail now. It's gonna be an expensive winter...
Re: Long Cold Winter…
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:42 pm
by Ves
phil wrote:... I yearn to expel the poisons of the day, wring the neck of the dragons of must dos and the demons of frustration...
Hey! This is a family orientated site... Geeeeeeeessssssss... There are other ways to get your frustrations out besides chocking your ... Oooooooooops... sorry... never mind...
I misunderstood...
Re: Long Cold Winter…
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:28 am
by sjbmw
half a foot of snow last night..... I feel your pain....
I need an Australian ride report DJ. Purely medicinal....
Re: Long Cold Winter…
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:15 pm
by Eqyn Dad
I have been absent for a while...where is DJ these days?
Re: Long Cold Winter…
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:45 pm
by CycleRob
Phil
Living my 1st 58 years in Manchester CT and then Easton PA, I know that feeling well !!!
Retired to a real life in the South.
It's very cold now, 29F @ 5:45pm, with no snow yet this winter, but scroll down at this website to look at my weather the coming week:
http://www.ibegin.com/weather/us/georgia/gainesville/
The cost is lower and the people are nicer. I will NEVER move back!!!
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