Winter is back and I"m sick of it. [Archive]

SIBUD

01-30-2010, 07:42 AM

Woke up this morning to this:

http://data.sailboatowners.com/photos/1264859541.jpg

Darn it, I'm going to have to sweep off the walk AGAIN! I am so tired of this vicious weather that just keeps pounding Southern Illinois. Will we ever see spring????:dunno

:dance:laugh:wave

bmwchromehead

01-30-2010, 07:56 AM

Amen Brother...51 days 'til spring and I'm counting.

PAULBACH

01-30-2010, 08:28 AM

The days keep getting longer and warmer.

Keep the faith.

Pat Carol

01-30-2010, 08:49 AM

So far, it has been a pretty easy winter up here. We had one huge snow storm that dumped over a foot of wet heavy snow. I only stuck my old 9n tractor a couple of dozen times.
This past week has been colder than a well diggers' a*#. Oh well! that is the price to pay in the Great White North.

Stay Warm
Spring will be here soon
Pat Carol

bmwchromehead

01-30-2010, 08:51 AM

The days keep getting longer and warmer.

Keep the faith.

WARMER??? Where are you Paul ? Did you fly off somewhere to escape the North East ?:wow

PAULBACH

01-30-2010, 08:59 AM

WARMER??? Where are you Paul ? Did you fly off somewhere to escape the North East ?:wow

Nah, Bud always like to put such a happy face on all things :love

so just catching the spirit of SIBUD and offering some

warm greetings
happy thoughts
promise of good times

and http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/PaulBach/Smilies/f9e005c9.gif

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I'll be happy to share the turbo fluffy!

gwood

01-30-2010, 09:27 AM

This is the view this morning from my walkout basement garage. Looks like it will be a while before the RT can make it down the hill.

Paul_F

01-30-2010, 09:53 AM

A couple of weeks ago I drove past a golf course that had a sign that read, "We golf in 82 days!"

Since that was two weeks ago, I estimate that they will golf in 68 days and maybe that means I'll ride again in less than sixty days. I have a hunch that the snow will melt in about six or eight weeks, so it looks like riding will happen again this year. If my hunch is correct, there'll be no ice age this year. Bud, don't give up hope; winter will end. :dance :ca

tourist

01-30-2010, 10:10 AM

We didn't get anything but the cold. I was going to ride south to warmer weather but it looks like I'm going north for a short ride. Winter is still over for st. louis. Still have good riding weather here no need for a battery tender.

AZ-J

01-30-2010, 10:30 AM

Just because I spent two fate filled years in Illinois and suffered with plenty of this, it's 50 F here @ 9:30 AM, on its way to 69 F.

You can pick on me when daytime highs are over 110 here.

2beers

01-30-2010, 10:44 AM

I have a brand new bike waiting for the first nice weather. Oh, did I mention the bike is BRAND NEW???? :banghead

lyman50

01-30-2010, 11:04 AM

Motor31

01-30-2010, 11:12 AM

Best riding season of the year for me. I'm going for a little ride today. It will be a little chilly as it's only going to be 65 today. :ha:nyah

glenfiddich

01-30-2010, 12:14 PM

It was -11F this AM and a brisk NW wind to keep me stepping lively... BUT, Paul's right, the days are getting longer and before you know it, it'll be MUD SEASON! (A short regional season peculiar to northern New England.)

Same up here in northern VT. It took till noon to rise to zero, despite the lovely sunlight. So I fill my evenings with cleaning parts of the bike and plotting routes on my wall map.

At least the wind died down -- forty below windchill last night! I've never seen my poor dogs pee so fast! They were back at the door in less than ten seconds!

Rapid_Roy

01-30-2010, 12:21 PM

I have a brand new bike waiting for the first nice weather. Oh, did I mention the bike is BRAND NEW???? :banghead
:clap

And stop banging your head, so you are ready to ride.

RUDYJO

01-30-2010, 01:03 PM

It will soon be the middle of summer and I will be wishing it will start to get
cooler. I thought that the end of Nov. would be the last time I would get the
bike out, but I've got a couple hundred miles on it since then. It's been a very
mild winter here in Southern Oregon.

bogthebasher

01-30-2010, 05:27 PM

It will soon be the middle of summer and I will be wishing it will start to get
cooler.

I have never ever said that... nope not ever.

VEGASBEEMERGUY

01-30-2010, 05:47 PM

Go west young man! :violin We are enjoying typical 60 degree days here in Las Vegas. We ride year round. Even with all the rain lately, we are spoiled by the weather. :dance
You just hang in there, and keep that battery charger going!!

AZ-J

01-30-2010, 07:09 PM

I have never ever said that... nope not ever.

You would if you lived here.

bubbagazoo

01-30-2010, 09:22 PM

Darn it, I'm going to have to sweep off the walk AGAIN! I am so tired of this vicious weather that just keeps pounding Southern Illinois. Will we ever see spring????:dunno

:dance:laugh:wave

I would kill to only have to SWEEP the walk.

I'm hoping for a good, drying thaw to happen anytime before mid March. Earliest I have ridden since I got back into riding in 2006 was 23 March, 2007. I would love to be riding before that date.

GrafikFeat

01-30-2010, 11:24 PM

"Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat."

Maylett

01-31-2010, 12:02 AM

I'm really looking forward to spring too, but winter has its moments. Like today, for example, the temperatures were in the high 20s F, but the sun was peeking out from behind the clouds, so I went for a 100-mile ride in the Wasatch Mtns east of Salt Lake City. Yeah, the place looks better (and warmer) without the snow, but it'll be spring soon enough, then summer, then fall, then...

osbornk

02-01-2010, 07:01 AM

I have a brand new bike waiting for the first nice weather. Oh, did I mention the bike is BRAND NEW???? :banghead

But I got to use my BRAND NEW snowblower. It worked great but a Briggs and Stratton just doesn't give me the same feeling as a boxer twin.

wezul

02-01-2010, 07:38 AM

But I got to use my BRAND NEW snowblower. It worked great but a Briggs and Stratton just doesn't give me the same feeling as a boxer twin.

How's the final drive holding up? What kind of oil do you use? :hide

SIBUD

02-01-2010, 07:54 AM

hlothery

02-01-2010, 08:04 AM

Never got out of the 30's here yesterday. This just ain't right:banghead

GrafikFeat

02-01-2010, 08:47 AM

But I got to use my BRAND NEW snowblower. It worked great but a Briggs and Stratton just doesn't give me the same feeling as a boxer twin.

Ya need to find the right power plant.

AZ-J

02-01-2010, 09:01 AM

Ya need to find the right power plant.

I want one of those. And, we have no snow, here!

GrafikFeat

02-01-2010, 09:11 AM

I want one of those. And, we have no snow, here!

Obviously no lawns either as that is a lawnmower... :laugh

bogthebasher

02-01-2010, 09:56 AM

Battleship grey cloud... not very cold (-10C) but two months away from riding in Calgary still...

RUDYJO

02-01-2010, 11:43 AM

For the big question of the day.... How did you get the shaft drive to go from
horizontal to vertical ?

GrafikFeat

02-01-2010, 02:21 PM

For the big question of the day.... How did you get the shaft drive to go from
horizontal to vertical ?

Easy.

http://www.elica.net/site/museum/Differential%20Gear%202.jpg

BubbaZanetti

02-01-2010, 02:35 PM

Ya need to find the right power plant.

i like that you've re purposed the exhaust into some sort of grass warmer but i think that might work better in the snowblower application :laugh

GrafikFeat

02-01-2010, 02:39 PM

i like that you've re purposed the exhaust into some sort of grass warmer but i think that might work better in the snowblower application :laugh

Nah... Those are those ' muffler cans' ya see on Tecumseh / Briggs & Stratton engines.

RUDYJO

02-01-2010, 03:33 PM

Your easy answer would work if the blade were attached under where the rear
wheels are. Can some of you with a good engineering background come up
with a way to do this and end up with the blade still centered in the lawnmower
housing? The shaft from the engine is coming from the right rear of the engine.
It would seem to me that it would have to make two 90 degree turns and then
end up in a gearbox where the blade would be attached. Is there another easy
answer to this?

83014

02-01-2010, 04:31 PM

After a 60 degree day last Thursday, I found myself shoveling 5" of winter off of my driveway on Sunday. I mused about global warming which lead my thoughts to Al Gore (no, this is not a political rant). I think Microsof missed a great ad opportunity with the launch of Windows 7, you know, the one where the speaker explains how Windows7 was their idea. Picture that ad with Al Gore. Come on, that's funny.

brewmeister

02-01-2010, 05:35 PM

I'm still enjoying snowmobiling,we need 2 more months of snow .

Besides my beemers arn't ready to go yet.(new tires,battery)
My sleds are running great and they have taken me where NO beemer could go cause you'ld drownd.Still waiting for cycling season meanwhile I'll keep on sledding!!:D

AZ-J

02-01-2010, 05:59 PM

Obviously no lawns either as that is a lawnmower... :laugh

Only those who want a northern experience here, have lawns. Me, I live across the street from a park that doubles as a soccer field, so that's my lawn. Personally I won't have one, it's a huge water use in a dry climate.

SIBUD

02-04-2010, 12:43 PM

http://data.sailboatowners.com/photos/1265300599.jpg

SIBUD

02-06-2010, 07:28 AM

We got pounded on again!!!!!

http://data.sailboatowners.com/photos/1265463558.jpg

This has been a brutal winter in S. Illinois. May have to move south if this keeps up.:laugh

DarrylRi

02-06-2010, 07:34 AM

Don't get too antsy, Bud. We have another rainstorm coming through the Bay area as I type this, so you'll probably see it as that white powdery stuff in 2-3 days...

I'm just hoping the rain quits before I go to my weekly breakfast ride, or else I'll have to put on the rain gear.

wezul

02-06-2010, 07:51 AM

We got pounded on again!!!!!

http://data.sailboatowners.com/photos/1265463558.jpg

This has been a brutal winter in S. Illinois. May have to move south if this keeps up.:laugh

Pounded?! I can see grass sticking through the snow! :ha
It's only another 9 or 10 weeks Bud, hang in, March is the killer.

36654

02-06-2010, 08:00 AM

The saddest sight of winter is three 50-yo bikers (ZZ-top beards and all) crammed into a Geo Metro.

But, at least, the Geo has a muffler!

SIBUD

02-06-2010, 08:35 AM

SIBUD

02-06-2010, 08:36 AM

Pounded?! I can see grass sticking through the snow! :ha
It's only another 9 or 10 weeks Bud, hang in, March is the killer.

I forgot to put the tongue in cheek smiley after the "pounded" in my message. :wave

wezul

02-06-2010, 08:37 AM

The saddest sight of winter is three 50-yo bikers (ZZ-top beards and all) crammed into a Geo Metro.

But, at least, the Geo has a muffler!

:ha Shades of Barnum and Bailey . . . . . and Bertram!

BubbaZanetti

02-06-2010, 08:48 AM

that big storm is just floating south of long island. i didn't make any plans today and was figuring on 6-8" of the white stuff. we received barely a dusting, that storm stayed parked 20 miles south of here all night and didn't move at all. i never ever saw snow falling, but not 50 miles away nj got hammered.

tessler

02-06-2010, 09:06 AM

Its just falling a little bit now. Looks like they got walloped along the coast north of Atlantic City.

AZ-J

02-06-2010, 11:32 AM

We got pounded on again!!!!!
This has been a brutal winter in S. Illinois. May have to move south if this keeps up.:laugh

55 at 10:30 AM, on its way to 68. Did I mention sunny, too?

SIBUD

02-06-2010, 12:57 PM

55 at 10:30 AM, on its way to 68. Did I mention sunny, too?

Keep it up :stick :laugh

I was in Payson one year on the 4th of July watching the Rodeo Parade. 114 degrees. Dad says "It's a dry heat" I say "Doesn't matter, still to darn hot, let's go inside".

AZ-J

02-06-2010, 01:57 PM

Keep it up :stick :laugh

I was in Payson one year on the 4th of July watching the Rodeo Parade. 114 degrees. Dad says "It's a dry heat" I say "Doesn't matter, still to darn hot, let's go inside".

Mesh, water (for dampening), and the AZ 87, 191, or the Ridge road. It is great riding once you know how.

r11rs94

02-06-2010, 02:15 PM

I was wondering....When the heck is spring coming??

tourist

02-06-2010, 05:24 PM

My daughter made this. I hope I get to clean up the rock mess.

21639

SIBUD

02-06-2010, 09:07 PM

My daughter made this. I hope I get to clean up the rock mess.

21639

Or wait till Sunday after midnight and the new snow will cover it all up. :laugh

tourist

02-14-2010, 07:48 PM

Neighbor boy pushed him down. Made a very loud thump and as I looked out the window I saw him running away. His mom assured me he didn't do it because he was at somebody's house all day. Like I wouldn't recognize him. If he was elsewhere I should of asked how did she know about it? I also have video cameras in front and back of my house. I know its only a snowman, I was hoping it would go naturally.