Annual winter rant 17'/18' [Archive]

BlackBike

12-28-2017, 07:28 PM

Southern California's need not apply, sorry Culcune

I see where pistolclass will be enjoying -1 F by Monday in Connecticut :wtf:

Tell us how cold and awful it is where you live that you can't ride those China rides.

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cheesy

12-28-2017, 08:22 PM

10F with a -4F windchill in East Dundee. And it's snowing.

Looking at 3F on Monday for the annual Polar Bear Ride. Might be rethinking that one.

BlackBike

12-28-2017, 08:29 PM

10F with a -4F windchill in East Dundee. And it's snowing.

Looking at 3F on Monday for the annual Polar Bear Ride. Might be rethinking that one.

Don't forget your eyeball warmers, and other oo warmers.

culcune

12-28-2017, 11:54 PM

Merlin

12-29-2017, 12:56 AM

That's nothing we've all ready seen -9f with out wind chill.

MICRider

12-29-2017, 12:59 AM

-29 degrees Celsius here right now, headed for -35 tonight... Lol, it's been like this for a week already. -20 C seems balmy these days ;)

(Why the heck I live here, I have no idea!)

Mudflap

12-29-2017, 04:52 AM

Unusually warm 52 degrees at home in Central Oregon right now at 2:45 am and 36 degrees now here in Arizona though it's going to be a nice sunny 74 here today. I'll be out exploring the desert on the quad.

culcune

12-29-2017, 07:12 AM

-29 degrees Celsius here right now, headed for -35 tonight... Lol, it's been like this for a week already. -20 C seems balmy these days ;)

(Why the heck I live here, I have no idea!)

When it starts getting very close to 50 degrees Celsius in the summer, you wonder the same thing!

pistolclass

12-29-2017, 09:15 AM

I'm going outside to light a tire on fire so I can speed up this global warming that Al Gore promised.

MICRider

12-29-2017, 09:45 AM

When it starts getting very close to 50 degrees Celsius in the summer, you wonder the same thing!

Lol, true! I guess you can always dress up for the cold, but you can only dress down for the heat so much!

culcune

12-29-2017, 06:57 PM

Not to mention, with the sun beating down with so much heat, you tend to want to not expose too much skin. But, to be honest, once you get used to the intense heat, and you have decent air conditioning at home, work, and your car, you really can do things like shopping, going out for dinner, etc. I remember living in Chicago just before up to my tenth birthday, and going through two blizzards in a row in '78, and '79 (we moved the summer of '79, so perhaps I am imagining two separate storms when in fact the snow came in droves in late '78 and stayed on the ground through early spring '79?).

BlackBike

12-29-2017, 07:02 PM

That's nothing we've all ready seen -9f with out wind chill.

I knew you could out do them up in those thin air Rocky Mountains :tup:

BlackBike

12-29-2017, 07:05 PM

I'm going outside to light a tire on fire so I can speed up this global warming that Al Gore promised.

Your a nut:hehe:

You must conform to the collective .

Merlin

12-29-2017, 08:21 PM

I knew you could out do them up in those thin air Rocky Mountains :tup:

For us -9f is considered balmy. When it gets to -30f (and it has every year but last) we will call it cold. Now we are still in the mid 40s? We call that riding weather around here.

pistolclass

12-29-2017, 10:37 PM

Your a nut:hehe:

You must conform to the collective .

I'm a little but of an alien here in CT, kinda like being behind enemy lines.

New England was once the birthplace of Liberty, some of us haven't forgotten how to think on our own.

Megadan

12-30-2017, 12:12 AM

BlackBike

12-30-2017, 07:44 PM

I'm a little but of an alien here in CT, kinda like being behind enemy lines.

New England was once the birthplace of Liberty, some of us haven't forgotten how to think on our own.

I want to go more political but for the sake of the forum , will decline. Some folks wont appriciate it , such as my own family. Group hug.

BlackBike

12-30-2017, 07:50 PM

High for Saturday of 8 with a low of -8. The best part is Sunday, High temp of -8 with a low of -21. Wind chill factors this last week have consistently been between -15 and -20. Wind chill prediction for Sunday night will be around -40.

Do I win the cold game yet?

I know the wind sure plowes thru you up there. Hope you have a warm loafing shed to get into my friend.

goat67

12-31-2017, 07:37 AM

High for Saturday of 8 with a low of -8. The best part is Sunday, High temp of -8 with a low of -21. Wind chill factors this last week have consistently been between -15 and -20. Wind chill prediction for Sunday night will be around -40.

Do I win the cold game yet?

Maybe but I am pretty sure we are right there with you. -12 now and a high of -5 whooo whooo
Windchill? Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.

I hate winter

cheesy

12-31-2017, 08:11 AM

goat67

12-31-2017, 08:41 AM

Today is supposed to be the warmest day of the week at 10F. Zero right now with a wind chill of -16. Tomorrow's Polar Bear ride is looking at a high of 2F and wind chills of -26 before the bike starts moving.

Are you going to participate in the Polar Bear ride? If so you are a better man than me, and maybe a little crazy :lmao:

cheesy

12-31-2017, 12:45 PM

Are you going to participate in the Polar Bear ride? If so you are a better man than me, and maybe a little crazy :lmao:
I'm hosting one here but it appears I may be riding solo this year. Some folks call me crazy. I call it life experience.;)

goat67

12-31-2017, 02:29 PM

I'm hosting one here but it appears I may be riding solo this year. Some folks call me crazy. I call it life experience.;)
I hope all goes well stay warm and have fun.

BlackBike

12-31-2017, 07:31 PM

Instead of to-ga...its pol-lar, pol-lar, pol-lar

ChondaChondaChonda

12-31-2017, 07:44 PM

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JerryHawk250

01-01-2018, 09:28 AM

GlennR

01-01-2018, 09:51 AM

Happy New Year!

Weather man called for 3f today, but it's 10f out here at our place. He's calling for a couple more days with a low of 3f this week, but I'll be heading back down the mountain to warmer weather. It sure is nice to have a fire blazing in the wood stove. :)

cheesy

01-01-2018, 11:54 AM

I guess I can officially complain. Normal temps here are around the mid to upper 60s this time of year. Woke up to 26* temps with a wind chill of 13*. High for today about 35. Supposed to be like this the whole week. At least it won't be raining or snowing . Happy New Year's everyone!

My sister told me that she lost power in Pineville and woke up to low twenties and cold wind. She had to wander out and break up the ice in the horse trough so the horses could drink. Seems she left the trough heater in WY , thinking she wouldn't need it in LA.

Ten below when I took off on the PB ride. Pics and description in Ride Reports later, after I get feeling back in my toes.

Megadan

01-01-2018, 12:41 PM

I know the wind sure plowes thru you up there. Hope you have a warm loafing shed to get into my friend.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up the weather here in the low plains (Nebraska and Dakotas). Wind. There is nothing here to block it lol. 10-20mph winds is a normal breezy day.

That and the wild temp. swings between summer and winter. Nebraska and South Dakota have the widest range of temps between summer and winter. It's a great place to live if you want southern style hot and humid summers mixed with sub-arctic style winters.

We are having a nice heat wave today with a high of 20 degrees, but then we are back to single digits and sub zero for the rest of the week. :tdown:

BlackBike

01-01-2018, 01:41 PM

:lmao:High for Saturday of 8 with a low of -8. The best part is Sunday, High temp of -8 with a low of -21. Wind chill factors this last week have consistently been between -15 and -20. Wind chill prediction for Sunday night will be around -40.

Do I win the cold game yet?

as we all have learned in the last 25 years. everyone gets a trophy .

CHINARIDERS.NET CONGRATULATES Megadan FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE COLD CONTEST

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RockyDS

01-01-2018, 06:12 PM

-33 centigrade here in Alberta today - but it was a couple of degrees cooler Boxing Day.

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BlackBike

01-01-2018, 10:26 PM

-33 C ? (Americans don't get along with the metric system too well... there was that messy relationship in the 70's and, well...) Will take your word for it that it means burrr.

pistolclass

01-01-2018, 11:11 PM

OK winter officially sucks. My lovely wife noticed that the vents were blowing cold air on the second floor. I went to the basement to check the obvious stuff like breakers/emergency switch/burner trip-reset that sort of stuff. None of the items I knew to check were the problem so I call the HVAC guy. After a quick diagnosis, he determined that my lines to the air handler in the attic were frozen!!! I built this house in 2000 and this has never happened before. So I went up there with my trusty Harbor Freight heat gun and unfroze the little offending bugger. Luckily no damage to the copper pipes or the PEX. The only reason we could deduce is my lovely wife lowered the heat upstairs, that reduced the frequency that the upstairs air handler would kick in allowing the system to cool down enough to freeze. Back to my opening statement: Winter officially sucks.

pistolclass

01-01-2018, 11:13 PM

-33 C ? (Americans don't get along with the metric system too well... there was that messy relationship in the 70's and, well...) Will take your word for it that it means burrr.

We'd rather divide by 12 then 10. Fractions are fun too.

BlackBike

01-02-2018, 12:45 AM

We'd rather divide by 12 then 10. Fractions are fun too.

I was in grade school struggling with math like everyone then suddenly I was suppose to do conversions in my head...not gonna happen. Sorry Jimmy.

RockyDS

01-02-2018, 11:32 PM

A useful thing to know is -40c is the same as -40f. Also there are plenty of conversion tools online.

Anyway -36 centigrade = approx -33 Fahrenheit.

Cold = Cold. ;-)

wheelbender6

01-06-2018, 12:25 PM

We had a few mornings in the 20s this week so I bolted the windshield back on.

BlackBike

01-17-2018, 12:27 AM

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Cheesy is at it again with another polar bear run

JerryHawk...is it cold enough for ya in South Louisiana?

cheesy

01-17-2018, 05:33 AM

I wish that was me. Alas, it's not. We had that weather over the weekend but I was still recovering from whatever knocked me on my ass last week.

I can answer for JerryHawk, it's cold. Not that cold to me but it was warmer in Chicago than in NOLA yesterday.

JerryHawk250

01-17-2018, 07:38 AM

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JerryHawk...is it cold enough for ya in South Louisiana? Too damn cold. All the Interstates are closed. 18 degrees with a wind chill of 5 on my scary ride to work this morning. Every bridge I crossed was iced up and patched of ice on the road. I was slippin and slidin all the way to work. It took an extra 15 minutes just to get to work. And I wish you northern folks would quit sending that white stuff down here. If I wanted to see snow I would turn on the TV and watch it on the news. lol

cheesy

01-17-2018, 08:05 AM

And I wish you northern folks would quit sending that white stuff down here. If I wanted to see snow I would turn on the TV and watch it on the news. lol

We just want to share.

JerryHawk250

01-17-2018, 08:09 AM

We just want to share. Thanks but no thanks. You can have it all. :p Your Sister got hit with a good blast of it. I hope she got them trough warmers this time.

cheesy

01-17-2018, 08:34 AM

Thanks but no thanks. You can have it all. :p Your Sister got hit with a good blast of it. I hope she got them trough warmers this time.

Haven't heard from her yet, but I think she's wishing she'd stayed in Wyoming.

I'm in Kenner, LA today and fly back tomorrow. I was standing outside at the airport yesterday, waiting for the hotel shuttle, with my jacket open and no gloves on. I kept getting these looks...

JerryHawk250

01-17-2018, 08:53 AM

Haven't heard from her yet, but I think she's wishing she'd stayed in Wyoming.

I'm in Kenner, LA today and fly back tomorrow. I was standing outside at the airport yesterday, waiting for the hotel shuttle, with my jacket open and no gloves on. I kept getting these looks...
I would say drive a little farther south and come visit but I don't think you could get across the river. All the bridges are iced up.
I get in to work and just got a text message not to come in. Kind of late. been here 2 hours already. lol
What you doing in Kenner?

BlackBike

01-17-2018, 01:46 PM

:hehe:

I didn't sign up for these 28-32 degrees here in South tex. Cant wait for the weekend. Supposed to be back in the 70's for my 250 miler West of San Antonio.

I figured it would be bad in South LA. that's wwhze I askead.

Went out in the shop a while ago to see about drilling an oil drain access hole in my Zuki skid plate and soon decided to bug out to the propane heater instead.

They had a report in Corpus Christi news talking about the cold and that there were "still food supplies in the stores" (you know how local news casts can be so stupid trying to drum up stories and fill segments :crazy:). So I'm thinking, that's a relief , we won't have to eat grandma after all. :hi:

BlackBike

01-17-2018, 01:50 PM

Yea, if you guys could meet in the middle somewhere , y'all could put some buffet out of business.

JerryHawk250

01-17-2018, 01:50 PM

Damn near 1pm and manage to get up to 28 degrees. Went out to get something to eat and the roads are still iced over. It's going to be another cold night. >:(

cheesy

01-17-2018, 05:35 PM

I would say drive a little farther south and come visit but I don't think you could get across the river. All the bridges are iced up.
I get in to work and just got a text message not to come in. Kind of late. been here 2 hours already. lol
What you doing in Kenner?

Staying at a hotel in Kenner but have the sales rep chauffeuring me around. Hard getting around here with the interstates closed, so I've seen a lot of NOLA I'd hadn't seen before.

I came down to see what was ailing a backhoe mounted tie tamper. One problem was a halfassed repair that took me twenty minutes to fix but two hours to find a replacement part. The other problem is in the seat.

Was also supposed to unload a machine on Friday for the Corps of Engineers that I didn't find out about until today. Turns out they don't work on Friday, so I dodged that bullet.

Going home in the A of M tomorrow. I hope.

Azhule

01-17-2018, 07:29 PM

:hehe:

I didn't sign up for these 28-32 degrees here in South tex. Cant wait for the weekend. Supposed to be back in the 70's for my 250 miler West of San Antonio.

:lmao: :p Woke up to 34 F this morning and it got up to 58 around lunch time :yay: had little to no wind today too :hehe:

JerryHawk250

01-18-2018, 08:08 AM

Staying at a hotel in Kenner but have the sales rep chauffeuring me around. Hard getting around here with the interstates closed, so I've seen a lot of NOLA I'd hadn't seen before.

I came down to see what was ailing a backhoe mounted tie tamper. One problem was a halfassed repair that took me twenty minutes to fix but two hours to find a replacement part. The other problem is in the seat.

Was also supposed to unload a machine on Friday for the Corps of Engineers that I didn't find out about until today. Turns out they don't work on Friday, so I dodged that bullet.

Going home in the A of M tomorrow. I hope.
I was watching to news last night and saw they canceled a lot of flights. Hope you get yours out. The interstates are still closed this morning. I made it into the office this morning and power has shut off and on for the past hour. Nobody has made it in yet. Might be a short day for me. lol

cheesy

01-18-2018, 07:36 PM

Surprisingly, I got out of NOLA on time. The flight outta DFW, on the other hand...

JerryHawk250

01-19-2018, 07:47 AM

Surprisingly, I got out of NOLA on time. The flight outta DFW, on the other hand...
You left too soon. Weather is going to warm up for the weekend. Might hit the low 70's. I know what this guy is going to doing. :yay: Just hope the cold didn't kill my battery. But that ain't going to stop me. :D