Spring is in the air or so I thought

**98tls** · 25th August 2013, 16:08

Beautiful day so dragged the TL outta the shed and went for a tiki tour,coming back from Dunedin i decided to call in at Graves dam and have the first dip of the year

wrong thing to do as it was bloody freezing..was a real quick dip then out gasping

Refreshing i guess,couple of pics of said dam and the bike up the road at the old sawmill.

**unstuck** · 25th August 2013, 16:15

Farkin nutter, swimming weather is months away down here yet.

**98tls** · 25th August 2013, 16:21

Originally Posted by unstuck

Farkin nutter, swimming weather is months away down here yet.

Yep think your right,just got a bit carried away with the summers coming thing.Have just about thawed out.

**unstuck** · 25th August 2013, 16:24

Originally Posted by 98tls

Yep think your right,just got a bit carried away with the summers coming thing.Have just about thawed out.

Supposed to be snow down to 200mts early this week, real warm here today though. Not warm enough for swimming though.

**Grizzo** · 25th August 2013, 16:55

Good on ya you crazy bastard. Jeez that must of tightend up the special bits.
Beaut weekend here too. Went for a couple of nice rides.
Bring on summer!

**98tls** · 25th August 2013, 17:24

Originally Posted by Grizzo

Good on ya you crazy bastard. Jeez that must of tightend up the special bits.
Beaut weekend here too. Went for a couple of nice rides.
Bring on summer!

Aye it did that,bit of shrinkage in others to.Worst thing was no bloody towel to dry off,must have looked like a right lunatic jumping up n down atop the dam.

Thankfully no cars went over the bridge whilst doing so.

**JimO** · 25th August 2013, 17:39

didnt you have the pipes on one side of the bike??

**98tls** · 25th August 2013, 17:44

Originally Posted by JimO

didnt you have the pipes on one side of the bike??

Yep i did mate,the guys on the TL site managed to convince M4 to do a small run of complete systems for the TLS (was discontinued a few years back) so the wtf and bought one,still got that other setup but am going to fit some other cans to it..sometime.

**unstuck** · 25th August 2013, 17:47

At least you didnt break your neck, new bridge too is it?

**98tls** · 25th August 2013, 17:49

Originally Posted by unstuck

At least you didnt break your neck, new bridge too is it?

Yep they put the new one in about a year ago.

**scumdog** · 25th August 2013, 17:52

Good on ya Mike!
C.B. and I went down to Pounawea in the Olds (ex-Oamaru car) and give the Thermette it's first boil-up for the spring, had a cuppa and a couple of bikkys then home, nice day for a cruise.

We looked at the water, talked about floundering - then thought "Naaahhh.."

- it ain't THAT warm yet.

**98tls** · 25th August 2013, 17:56

Originally Posted by scumdog

Good on ya Mike!
C.B. and I went down to Pounawea in the Olds (ex-Oamaru car) and give the Thermette it's first boil-up for the spring, had a cuppa and a couple of bikkys then home, nice day for a cruise.

We looked at the water, talked about floundering - then thought "Naaahhh.."

- it ain't THAT warm yet.

You made the right decision mate,might give it another go around the end of Setember,Graves dam is generally a fair bit colder than the likes of the Kakanui river even in mid summer,beautiful clear clean water though.

**unstuck** · 25th August 2013, 17:58

Originally Posted by scumdog

Good on ya Mike!
C.B. and I went down to Pounawea in the Olds (ex-Oamaru car) and give the Thermette it's first boil-up for the spring, had a cuppa and a couple of bikkys then home, nice day for a cruise.

We looked at the water, talked about floundering - then thought "Naaahhh.."

- it ain't THAT warm yet.

Waders is what you need, went down to waikawa last weekend and got a few. Good size too.