seasons

**Acid** · 20th February 2006, 14:19

was just wondering how many people still ride their bikes in winter.

**Grahameeboy** · 20th February 2006, 14:21

do we get winters in Auckland.....it is either Summer or Spring to me.......

**bugjuice** · 20th February 2006, 14:21

never stop..
only one car and two of us. I have the bike license, so guess who rides come hell or shine..?

winter isn't an excuse to stop anyway. Besides, winter is months and months and many many months away yet

**ManDownUnder** · 20th February 2006, 14:22

Yup - and the odo is showing it too...!

**SimJen** · 20th February 2006, 14:33

Yep most of the year, some mornings if I feel tired or its really bad weather I'll take the ute. But mostly try and ride.
Wet roads make you a better rider, its weird given the fact that cars have so much rubber on the road that cage drivers drive so slowly in the wet???
Its also fun to get the back spinning up out of a corner or just accelerating away from lights etc, makes you look/sound like a legend

**Str8 Jacket** · 20th February 2006, 14:35

I have no cage licence or cage for that matter and I live 10 kms out of town, believe me I aint walking if I dont have to....

**Fishy** · 20th February 2006, 14:36

Yep sure do but only if its not raining. Yeah yeah I know Im a pussy!.

**Acid** · 20th February 2006, 14:40

great too see there are people who do cause i will be once it comes round

**Wolf** · 20th February 2006, 14:45

As my bike is not functional I currently walk. I'm not looking forward to walking in the pissing rain of winter or shelling out money for a bus trip so if I had a functional machine I would be suited up in my wet weather gear and riding to and from work.

Always been an all-weather rider - despite gale-force winds (well, you've got to get home somehow), pouring rain, pea-soup fogs and freezing frosts (and, since this is the "wonderful" Waikato, combinations of freezing frost and pea-soup fog).

As ever, hope to get a functional before winter starts in earnest. Hmmm, deja vu - I recall posting similar this time last year. Maybe this year I'll get it.

**Wolf** · 20th February 2006, 14:47

Originally Posted by Grahameeboy

do we get winters in Auckland.....it is either Summer or Spring to me.......

Yeah, but you're a pom - anything we get here is usually better than the "summer" you're used to.

On that topic, do you happen to know which day they're planning to have summer this year in the UK?

**Pwalo** · 20th February 2006, 14:48

I always commute on the bike, year round. Faster than the car, cheaper than public transport. And a bloody sight more fun!

Good gear, tyres, etc and it's not an issue.

**Str8 Jacket** · 20th February 2006, 14:51

Originally Posted by Wolf

Always been an all-weather rider - despite gale-force winds

Yeah, have to admit that Ive left my bike at home once before and that was due to gale-force winds. Damn Welly weather!

**Grahameeboy** · 20th February 2006, 14:54

Originally Posted by Wolf

Yeah, but you're a pom - anything we get here is usually better than the "summer" you're used to.

On that topic, do you happen to know which day they're planning to have summer this year in the UK?

Hey I am not a POM you you you.......

Summer in UK..........

......mmmmmm.......actually would you spent a week climbing in the Scottish Highlands and it was a scorcher in September.......

**imdying** · 20th February 2006, 14:59

Yeah, have done for years. Shows on the bike though, I've been trying to use the car more over the last couple of years. Really need a rat bike to commute on :/

/edit: Funny story... When I went to sit the practical part of my learners all those years ago, I was on a Honda DJ1 scooter wearing thick wooly fingerless gloves. It snowed, which sucked, and then it hailed. Oh the pain on my poor fingers! Made sure I had new jacket/helmet/boots/gloves before I got my 250, wish I'd had them earlier!