Bandit Alley
MODEL SPECIFIC => SUZUKI BANDIT 250 & 400 => Topic started by: gsxr400 racer on November 19, 2006, 10:06:55 PM
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:monkeymoon:
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I was out saturday from 10 am until 5 pm. :monkeymoon:
But today it was cold enough too freeze the balls off a brass monkey!
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In my more eager days, the winter wheels would go on the car and the summer wheels into the basement for the rest of the year at Thanksgiving.
That being said, if the weather holds out, I might put the bike away for the winter in another week or so. Riding my bicycle is hard enough when it's cold out and generating a 60+mph headwind certainly doesn't help to stay warm.
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What can I say? ummm- it's the middle of November in souther cal. its 85 degrees f. And I am wearing my summer jacket. Sorry boys and girls. I couldn't resist.
I suppose we'll need water soon.
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I'm dying to ride as well, but cold this weekend here (-7deg C overight) and freezing rain today.
So...the best I could do was clean out the whole garage and get ready for the winter mod season. Flat tire to fix on the XR 80, New rear tire on the CR 250, valve adj and service on the TTR125L, sell the KDX110 and look for a larger bike for my youngest daughter.
The Bandit will get valve adjustment, a Zero Gravity Double Bubble screen, maybe relube steering head bearings, and possibly a shock upgrade (if I can find a 2G 1200S shock).
These tasks will have to keep me from going stir crazy. I have ordered a copy of DH Highway Nothern California, and we will start planning our May trip soon.
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I was out saturday from 10 am until 5 pm. :monkeymoon:
But today it was cold enough too freeze the balls off a brass monkey!
Ok a little trivia here for ya
Whats a Brass Monkey
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Have to admit I know this one, but I'll leave you at sea and let others play.
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just ride anyway. dont let the cold stop you just wrap up nice n warm and go for a play..
no weather has stopped me yet. are you a man or a mouse?
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I was out saturday from 10 am until 5 pm. :monkeymoon:
But today it was cold enough too freeze the balls off a brass monkey!
Ok a little trivia here for ya
Whats a Brass Monkey
That funky monkey, brass monkey chica chicaaa say what!!! A song by the beastie boys word to your mother!!
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Have to admit I know this one, but I'll leave you at sea and let others play.
oooh clever ...
got to love hidden clues.
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just ride anyway. dont let the cold stop you just wrap up nice n warm and go for a play..
no weather has stopped me yet. are you a man or a mouse?
Where ya from wyntrblue? Some of us can't. For instance, I can't get the damn thing out of the driveway...
(http://photos.stormi.ca/snow.gif)
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Just got back from a midnight run, roughly a 25-mile loop around my home. I was averaging 60-70mph at ~35°, which is 17°-16° on the 'ol wind chill chart. Great night to ride. :motorsmile:
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For instance, I can't get the damn thing out of the driveway...
There's a driveway in that picture? I thought it was an aerial shot of the fjords of Norway!
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There's a driveway in that picture? I thought it was an aerial shot of the fjords of Norway!
Though they look close,... yeah.. the driveway is the low spot in the pic,... the non-blueish-white part. :wink: Though the blueish white stuff is also taking over the driveway as well. Got another inch of so of the fluffy white @$#@ again last night. Surely we'll hit the quota soon and this will go away? I could live with sweltering hot for Christmas. :grin:
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haha, lmao,
I seriously thought that was an Aerial picture of Ant-Arctica,
After a much closer look, I realised that this is a picture of your drive way :duh:
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I knew right away what that was a picture of because it looks just like mine :lol:
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Blimey that really is bad! And to think it's only November!!
However i suppose the difference being that you get much harsher winters than we do here in the UK.
I wish we had some snow, although come to think of it doesnt make riding much fun.
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Blimey that really is bad! And to think it's only November!!
However i suppose the difference being that you get much harsher winters than we do here in the UK.
I wish we had some snow, although come to think of it doesnt make riding much fun.
Believe it or not, this isn't bad yet,.. I can still see some pavement on the driveway (well I could til it started snowing again today) and the snow mounds aren't all that high yet.
The bad part is that this is very early in the year to have the cold temps that we have. The "normal" high we should be seeing here is just below 0C, it's -17C (about 1.4F) here and has been cold since October.
Wait til January and February! Then it's usually really interesting to see here. The way the snow is coming, I expect we may yet have another one of those "tunnel through the front yard and build snow forts" type of years. Got another inch of snow in the forecast today.
I'm thinking of taking the video camera out and strapping it to the dash and letting ya all see what drving is like here this time of year. :shock: :lol:
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I knew right away what that was a picture of because it looks just like mine :lol:
I had a feeling you would recognise it. :wink: I also noticed it in your avatar. I saw that before your location. I thought,.. hey.,. some poor slob going through withdrawls just like me! :motorsmile:
Of course you're braver than me though to wheel that thing out onto the snow for pics. We had a lot of rear plastic destroyed by trying to move the B4 in the snow a couple of years back.
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The bad part is that this is very early in the year to have the cold temps that we have. The "normal" high we should be seeing here is just below 0C, it's -17C (about 1.4F) here and has been cold since October.
It's sunny and 67 here today, with sunny and and 70+ projected for the next couple days. So, I'll be able to ride to the hockey games the next couple nights without having a lot of excess gear to take off in the warm interiors of the arena.
PS: Happy (American) Thanksgiving. Thank god ours doens't come as early as yours, or the Christmas shopping season would last twice as long!
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It's sunny and 67 here today, with sunny and and 70+ projected for the next couple days. So, I'll be able to ride to the hockey games the next couple nights without having a lot of excess gear to take off in the warm interiors of the arena.
Alright, that does it,.. we're moving in with you! :monkeymoon:
PS: Happy (American) Thanksgiving. Thank god ours doens't come as early as yours, or the Christmas shopping season would last twice as long!
LOL! Actually, I usually wait til long after even your thanksgiving to start. This year I have to wait til we finish re-financing the house. Most painful thing I've done since the first time we financed it. I'm starting to think this house is financially jinxed. I suspect that will mean christmas shopping on Dec 24th.
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Whats a Brass Monkey
My understanding is it's a cannon ball holder... when the temp would drop the cannon balls would shrink and fall off the holder.
What I don't know is what is Brass Tax???