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Post by swampsniper on Jan 2, 2008 4:25:57 GMT -5
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Post by earlwb on Jan 2, 2008 6:20:44 GMT -5
Bragging about your good fortune at having such nice weather will only make the Northeners jealous.  |
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Post by sting on Jan 2, 2008 7:36:56 GMT -5
The high temperature today in Detroit will be 25. Multi viscosity oil is a must for our scooters, as also is, a short warm-up period. No, we will not go on pleasure rides, but we will don our snow-mobile suits and be off to do our chores, our errands, our things to survive.
And in the future, when scooter elders tell ancient lore about the hardy scooterists from the north, not all of the young ones will believe. Your, young ones will though. Their folks've seen it with their own eyes.
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Post by rverr on Jan 2, 2008 9:06:50 GMT -5
8-)STING if I lived in DETROIT my oil should be thin enough to start it by JUNE no way would I ride when it is that cold time to catch the bus. THEIR wont be many stories to pass to future generations because y'all going to freeze to death Do they make block heaters for scooters? KEEP ON SCOOTIN!!! When it gets warmer. ;D
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Post by loudest143 on Jan 2, 2008 11:41:02 GMT -5
With wind chill this morning. 5. My windows were frozen shut on my cage. Forget about block heaters, I need nard heaters.
loudest143
*ballsy
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Post by natefromogden on Jan 2, 2008 12:22:13 GMT -5
Sniper, I think I heard about some record cold temps headed your way today and this week...
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Post by monty57 on Jan 2, 2008 13:07:34 GMT -5
The actual temp here this morning was 8 with a windchill of -13 but we are supposed to be in the 60s by the weekend. Maybe some riding then.
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Post by swampsniper on Jan 2, 2008 14:13:15 GMT -5
Sniper, I think I heard about some record cold temps headed your way today and this week... Could be some snow Thursday AM. Where can I get some global warming? ;D |
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Post by scooterollie on Jan 2, 2008 14:22:54 GMT -5
Swamp;
Just drive around some more in a big hulkin SUV. That should raise the temp. a few degrees! (LOL)
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Post by tomtom on Jan 2, 2008 16:31:10 GMT -5
Swamp- Used to work with a fellow who was raised in North Dakota. When it got this cold he used to say "North Dakota heat wave!"  |
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Post by bunnii on Jan 2, 2008 16:54:44 GMT -5
I'm in Raleigh and it was snowing this morning...not. cool.
I wanna ride my new scooter
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Post by scooterlizard on Jan 2, 2008 18:47:49 GMT -5
Hard Freeze warning here in the panhandle with temperatures in the teens. It's 34 here now.
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Post by scooterollie on Jan 2, 2008 22:13:42 GMT -5
Yeah, it's about 20 right now and heading down to the mid or low teens in our panhandle of WV! Winds gusting over 30 mph. All-in-all, not a very pleasant night. Supposed to be 50-60 by next week! Look out scoot, here I come for a ride!
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Post by lewtwo on Jan 2, 2008 22:26:38 GMT -5
Well ... I am a little south of swamp, but you could not tell it from the temperature. It is sold cold my DSL modem froze up ... well it is cold and I did have to reboot the modem. Did not somebody start a thread "how cold is it ??": It is so cold that the strippers in the local nudie bar are wearing long johns under their lingerie. I wonder if still have that coat in the back of the closet  ? |
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Post by swampsniper on Jan 2, 2008 23:27:32 GMT -5
Just hit 30 here, the wind just keeps coming.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2008 23:57:01 GMT -5
31 °F and dropping like a rock.  |
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Post by Aaron on Jan 3, 2008 0:05:31 GMT -5
Bunch of whiners. 4 degrees with a 20 mph wind here tonight... my furnace doesn't kick off it just runs. And at $3.20 a gallon for heating oil... Lord help me! And February is the cold month here..still got aways to go.
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Post by Dennis D on Jan 3, 2008 0:54:14 GMT -5
I rode my Helix saturday when it was 28F with winds 15mph gusting to 30. Monday it got up to 32F, so I took Linda's Manco(no windshield) out for a 5 mile run since it looked like it might be the last warm day for a week or so and it hadn't been run for over a week. Later I took the Helix out grocery shopping.
Yesterday, snowed all day... and today high of 13 and windy. I draw the line in the mid 20's... I know I'm a wimp compared to a lot of riders in Wisconsin and Minnesota, but I don't handle the cold as well as when I was younger..
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Post by swampsniper on Jan 3, 2008 0:58:36 GMT -5
Got a job right out of high school driving a fuel truck. K-2 was selling for about .15 a gallon, if they got at least 100 gallons. Diesel was even less. I would haul diesel to the docks and fuel shrimp boats for .12 a gallon.
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Post by sunshinecma on Jan 3, 2008 2:35:09 GMT -5
fl has it easy it was -12 tonight and i still made it to work.
of corse everything that could freeze on the bike did but i just pulled it in the to restraunt to warm up
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Post by Dennis D on Jan 3, 2008 9:03:16 GMT -5
fl has it easy it was -12 tonight and i still made it to work. You're either talking -12C (Low of +5 F, -15C), or you're telling the wind chill. And there's always a wind chill on a scooter! ;D www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KIND/2008/1/3/DailyHistory.htmlDang! Girl, when you're out there riding to work and back on a scooter at 5 degrees out, there's no need to make it sound worse... (though I'm sure it FELT like -12). YOU WIN!!! Compared to that, the rest of us are all wimps! I bow down to you!! |
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Post by earlwb on Jan 3, 2008 10:38:54 GMT -5
I salute you sunshinecma, that is most impressive.
I almost couldn't get my scooter to run this morning in order to ride in, and it was only 23 degrees F here.
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Post by sunshinecma on Jan 3, 2008 12:37:54 GMT -5
with the windchill it was about -12 to 27 down here but in two days its gonna be 50
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Post by tvfritz on Jan 3, 2008 13:36:15 GMT -5
Zero at the BGM airport this am.. Summer here is called 4th of July...
I'm impressed by the cold weather riding.. from my bicycling experience.. I don't ride my scoot in the winter months because salt residue on the roads.. it trashes bicycle gearing, imagine it won't help my scooter either..
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Post by scooterlizard on Jan 3, 2008 18:43:40 GMT -5
21 here this morning, windchill on scoot in the teens or less. It's suppose hard freeze again tonight. gas jumped another 5 cents today so I will make the best of riding in cold weather.
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Post by swampsniper on Jan 3, 2008 21:14:06 GMT -5
I paid $3.40 for K-1 today, staying warm is getting expensive. I only heat and cool one end of this old place, it would be rough to heat it all.
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2008 21:59:20 GMT -5
We just went through a cold snap but maybe looking for close to 60 this weekend. Hoping enough ice melts off one of the scoots that I can see it.
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