Bandit Alley
GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: solman on September 11, 2006, 08:08:57 PM
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See if this works for y'all. I can add more, but I think that this will give an accurate description for people.
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Sometimes it gets down to the low 40's F at night in Jan and Feb, and rains lightly ten too twenty times a year. :monkeymoon:
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i ride all year round, its good to practice wheelies in wet conditions as it improves your throttle control, fast landings can be undercracker filling moments though :lol:
we dont normally have the extreme weather conditions you get over here though :grin:
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It really depends on your definition of winter.
Here in my part of Oz, it's not winter until it's below Oc in the mornings and your lucky if it gets to double figures.
In parts of Queensland it's winter when the overnight temp gets down to 10c.
Me I ride all year round, all weather conditions (except snow and extreme heat i.e. over about 38c)
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I don't ride when it's in the 30s F, nor much when the temps are over 90 F. But inbetween times, woo hoo! :lol:
:btw: Why is there no degree symbol on our keyboards! :annoy: That sure would be more useful than this, "^", whatever that is.
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My comfort range is 45F-90F
Only ride in the rain if I get caught out in it, or a light drizzle.
I won't ride at all in snow or ice.
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Here in the midsouth, we get a couple incidents of frozen precip in the winter, so those days would be OUT. For much of the winter, we have morning commute temps in the 30s, which is certianly do-able (assuming it's not raining), but we also have a wet winter.
Last winter my cut-off was morning commute above 50. Which meant about four months when weekend pleasure riding was my preferred option, and that was only every 2-3 weeks. So while I don't store the bike for the winter, I don't ride it as much.
See http://www.worldweather.org/093/c00790f.htm#climate for climate info for Memphis. And a note about those averages: Seeing a daily maximum for 92F in July is very misleading, since it's a rare day in July when the daily high is not at least 92F.
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Ill break out the bike on warm winterdays (40s ish F) but most of the time it waits patiently with plenty of fuel stabilizer in the system.
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For us that live in the states, it can really vary on where you live. We have a such diverse climates depending on what region you live. Here in N. Texas, it can really vary in the Winter time. I have seen really icy conditions, snow, and warm days. The problem with this region is that it can vary on where the air is coming from. It can come from the North and bring cold weather in, or turn around and bring warm weather from the South. That is one of the things that I don't like about being here is that it is hard to predict the weather. Phoenix is probably the easiet place to predict the weather. Because of its shape, you can tell if a storm is going to hit or not by which direction it is coming from.
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i ride in all weathers ice snow, rain, hail sun itts all the same really, as long as you take it nice n easy. even more so when its icy. rember when riding in cold condtions that the edges of the road will be alot more icy than the middles and the same can be said about shaded areas. all in all take care!!!
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I remember my first Winter here and there was no way I was riding my bike. The roads were so icy, it was barely safe for cars, and definitely not for bikes.
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I don't enjoy pushing the bandit 50 feet through 24" deep snow, so pretty much I'm limited to may through october.
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Tracks aren't open in the winter!
When I had my Bandit, I wouldn't intentionally ride <45. I don't enjoy numb or hurting hands/toes/knees and don't enjoy riding all bundled up.
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I ride all year round I do not ride in the rain though
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I ride all year round heats not a problem, only get 0 or minus cel on way home from work at 6am in the middle of winter. Snow and ice whats that! I live in the sunny state QLD Aust..Graham
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>>Why is there no degree symbol on our keyboards!<<
There is. My reply is not showing up here tho. Might be an internet thing. Perhaps somethign to do with the BBS software.
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Let's try this again.
On a PC, you need to use the character map tool found under start, programs, acceessories, system tools, then character map.
On a Mac, it's shift-option-8
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Let's see, it's 67°F here in NYC.
Ah, there it is. I don't understand why my previous reply didn't come up.
>>That sure would be more useful than this, "^", whatever that is.<<
Doesn't that mean "up yours"? :stickpoke:
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Thanks for the Winter poll revision, however winter poll one was obvious. If you rode one day out of the off season, then your bike did not hibernate.
:duh:
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Let's see, it's 67°F here in NYC.
Ah, there it is. I don't understand why my previous reply didn't come up.
>>That sure would be more useful than this, "^", whatever that is.<<
Doesn't that mean "up yours"? :stickpoke:
OK, so I found it where you said, °°°, but gee, that's inconvenient to get for a quick reply. I have no clue what "^" this is for. A math symbol perhaps? I've only used it as a replacement character for a certain 4 letter word, like this >>> f^ck. :lol:
*Update* This "^" is called a circumflex accent. I don't know why. :grin:
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I see in the poll that we have a fair weather rider among us. :stickpoke:
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^ is indeed a circumflex accent and is used in a number of languages, though I don't really remember what it does to the vowels it modifies. It is also commonly used in computing to represent "power of" and 2^8 or 2 raised to the power of 8 = 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 = 256, the largest number represented by an 8 bit byte. there. I'm a f^'ing geek.
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Actually, the "up yours" usage may be handy too... :lol:
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While December to March is usually pretty nasty here in Chicago... we typically get 4 or 5 flukey days where it's sunny, dry, and over 50°F.
So since I'm always 'jonesin' in the winter to ride... I usually don't do much more winterizing to the bike than to put Stabil in the tank and keep a bedsheet over it. That way I can take advantage of those opportunities.
I also have a very well insulated garage... because the previous owner apparently worked year 'round in it. (It even has it's own monster Kenmore heater that doesn't work anymore.)
This picture is an example of one of those days. New Year's Eve, 2004. It was almost 60°F.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/PaulVS/bike-nye.jpg)
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I don't mind the cold so much, but the chemicals they put on the roads here in Central NY are killers. I only ride if the roads are dry. generally I prep the Bandit for a Winter's rest and get it out for Spring.
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As long as it is above 28°F and dry.
Heated grips surprisingly helps keep the rest of me toasty.
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Let's try this again.
On a PC, you need to use the character map tool found under start, programs, acceessories, system tools, then character map.
On a Mac, it's shift-option-8
alt + 0176 also inserts the temp symbol
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Let's try this again.
On a PC, you need to use the character map tool found under start, programs, acceessories, system tools, then character map.
On a Mac, it's shift-option-8
alt + 0176 also inserts the temp symbol
Just makes my keyboard ding as I type 0176.
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Still works for me. Are you holding down the alt while using the num keypad? Maybe you need to upgrade from Windows 3.1 :monkeymoon:
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As long as it is above 28°F and dry.
Heated grips surprisingly helps keep the rest of me toasty./quote]
Yeah... but you ALWAYS have your winter coat on. :grin:
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°°...
Still works for me. Are you holding down the alt while using the num keypad? Maybe you need to upgrade from Windows 3.1 :monkeymoon:
Ha ha, very funny! WinXPHome, service pack 2! So there! :wink:
OK, if I hold the ALT & type 0176, then my keyboard goes ding ding ding ding. If I tap ALT & then type 0176 I get 0176.
How can I do it differently? :?:
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>>alt + 0176 also inserts the temp symbol<<
That's still quite a ways to go to type a damnned symbol! I'd rather just keep the character map window open and copy whatever I need.
Score one for Macs, I guess...
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okay for winxp its alt-0186 on the number keypad, not the numbers above the main keyboard. º
º weee.... º
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Funny thing, I have xp pro and BOTH 0176 and 0186 work for me....
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I guess my problem is I have no number keypad; only numbers on the top row of the keyboard typewriter style.
It's a laptop.
What was this thread about? :lol:
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What was this thread about? :lol:
Oil type and where to buy.
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What was this thread about? :lol:
Oil type and where to buy.
Ah, good, not the shaft vs. chain thing.