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Jantar
27th June 2006, 15:53
The temperature had been -8 overnight, but this afternoon it had risen to a nice balmy -4. A perfect excuse to take a ride and get a new pair of winter weight gloves.
Rashika
27th June 2006, 16:10
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Macktheknife
27th June 2006, 16:16
FARRRKKK MMMMEEEEE thats looks cold!
hope those new gloves are really good!
Blackbird
27th June 2006, 16:18
Fantastic pic Malcolm and not even at your limit for riding of minus 6. They breed you lot tough. (I'd like to think that your formative years in the Waikato might have contributed a teensy bit:rockon: )

Geoff
SDU
27th June 2006, 16:25
Hope they were electric gloves, and you have heated grips. Or are your gloves frozen to the grips now.
Real Brass Monkey weather that!
MikeyG
27th June 2006, 16:33
Cold, that is not cold. I grew up in a place where we pissed ice cubes

Good on ya for going for a ride. I'm a Twizel lad myself so I know what it gets like down there.
T.W.R
27th June 2006, 16:48
Brrr looks tropical NOT! :shutup: though a good ride on a brisk cold morning is stimulating :cold:
MidnightMike
27th June 2006, 16:50
:blink:Damn that looks cold.

Its making me shiver looking at it:cold:
Jantar
27th June 2006, 16:51
Fantastic pic Malcolm and not even at your limit for riding of minus 6. They breed you lot tough. (I'd like to think that your formative years in the Waikato might have contributed a teensy bit )

Thanks Geoff, Paulette was playing with the camera just as I was heading out, and I also thought she got a good pic. The hoar frost is really nice at the moment.


Hope they were electric gloves, and you have heated grips. Or are your gloves frozen to the grips now.
Real Brass Monkey weather that!

Pardon? Electric gloves? Heated grips? No, its not THAT cold. Just winter weight Dri-Riders.
Blackbird
27th June 2006, 17:27
Pardon? Electric gloves? Heated grips? No, its not THAT cold. Just winter weight Dri-Riders.

**Blackbird blushes with embarrassment**
scumdog
27th June 2006, 17:35
It sure is nice looking Jantar - very fairyland looking and not bad fun riding as long as the roads are dry..

Went to a car crash south of Clinton today, ice in the roadside puddles were 3" thick (76mm for metric types)

No wonder the poor bugger skidded off the road in the ice.
Clivoris
27th June 2006, 19:54
That's outrageous. Best I stop whining about the weather up here.
paturoa
27th June 2006, 19:57
your just a mad silly bugger!
Jantar
27th June 2006, 19:58
It sure is nice looking Jantar - very fairyland looking and not bad fun riding as long as the roads are dry..

Went to a car crash south of Clinton today, ice in the roadside puddles were 3" thick (76mm for metric types)

No wonder the poor bugger skidded off the road in the ice.

The roads up here are in good condition at the moment, generally dry with good grip. There was one icy patch in Letts Gulley wher I had to take it easy, otherwise just nice cruising. :scooter:
dnos
28th June 2006, 08:38
ummmmmmmm. wheres the sun?
Jantar
28th June 2006, 14:48
ummmmmmmm. wheres the sun?
Haven't seen that thing for about 3 or 4 days, untill about an hour ago when there was a whitish disk starting to show through the fog. It might have been the sun, but if it was then its gone again now.
I've now covered the bike, and I'll review conditions again on Saturday when I have to go back to work.
frogfeaturesFZR
28th June 2006, 14:50
:rockon: Rather you than me..........very keen !
placidfemme
28th June 2006, 14:51
great pic and good to see your still out and about even in those temps...
mstriumph
28th June 2006, 14:52
you know, West Aus isn't such a baaaad place to be after all lol
scumdog
29th June 2006, 13:47
Thought about washing CBs Laser, got the car washing bucket and tipped out the ice, saw it was 70mm thick (measured it) and thought "Not today"
and put the bucket back.