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Dave
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Posted: Fri Dec 1st, 2006 05:40 pm |
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Vero Steve wrote:
It's a Florida thing..........you left coast guys wouldn't understand.............LOL Wouldn't understand? WTF? Ya need to come out here around New Years Day... LOL
They start rollin' in right after Christmas in the huge motorhomes, towin' a car, and make a mess out of the freeway by the house. I'm only about 5 miles from the Rose Parade route and about twice that far to the Rose Bowl...
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Fri Dec 1st, 2006 05:33 pm |
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| It's a Florida thing..........you left coast guys wouldn't understand.............LOL
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Dec 1st, 2006 05:29 pm |
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| "Open Season" on Snowbirds? Is that just in Florida or is that nationwide?
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Fri Dec 1st, 2006 05:28 pm |
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Randy in Pensacola wrote: Vero Steve wrote: Nothing like hitting a swarm of love bugs going down the road, and those bugs smell and taste really bad. Plus they will eat the paint right off your ride real quick.............Highly acidic little bastards.... PS love bug season is over now....we have something much more dangerous to worry about now............. SNOWBIRDS are arriving in packs......................
I would rather deal with the love bugs than the snowbirds.......At least you can kill love bugs....LOL You can do snowbirds that way too if their slow enough..............LOL
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Randy in Pensacola
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Posted: Fri Dec 1st, 2006 02:35 pm |
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Vero Steve wrote: Nothing like hitting a swarm of love bugs going down the road, and those bugs smell and taste really bad. Plus they will eat the paint right off your ride real quick.............Highly acidic little bastards.... PS love bug season is over now....we have something much more dangerous to worry about now............. SNOWBIRDS are arriving in packs......................
I would rather deal with the love bugs than the snowbirds.......At least you can kill love bugs....LOL
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Fri Dec 1st, 2006 01:23 pm |
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jeffy ole boy wrote: Unless it Love (fu*k) bug season in FLA.. LOL! The air gets black with 'em.......
Oh and Dave, Just put your original bars back on and pick ya up a windshield maybe on E-bay? or Jireh has 'em pretty reasonably priced. Nothing like hitting a swarm of love bugs going down the road, and those bugs smell and taste really bad. Plus they will eat the paint right off your ride real quick.............Highly acidic little bastards.... PS love bug season is over now....we have something much more dangerous to worry about now............. SNOWBIRDS are arriving in packs...................... Last edited on Fri Dec 1st, 2006 01:25 pm by Vero Steve
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Dave
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 06:53 pm |
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jeffy ole boy wrote:
Oh and Dave, Just put your original bars back on and pick ya up a windshield maybe on E-bay? or Jireh has 'em pretty reasonably priced.
I've been thinking about doing exactly that...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 06:37 pm |
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Unless it Love (fu*k) bug season in FLA.. LOL! The air gets black with 'em.......
Oh and Dave, Just put your original bars back on and pick ya up a windshield maybe on E-bay? or Jireh has 'em pretty reasonably priced.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 05:13 pm |
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Dave wrote: empty wrote:
We have too many bug seasons down here to go without some sort of windshield or helmet shield.
I think I am going to invent a set of goggles with windshield wipers.
I know that the last time I drove across Western Nebraska, I had to pull off the interstate a couple of times just to clean the guts off the windshield on my Thunderbird... Kansas and Nebraska both are the worst 'bug splat states' anywhere. ....Louisiana isn't exactly a slouch either.
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Dave
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 05:00 pm |
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empty wrote:
We have too many bug seasons down here to go without some sort of windshield or helmet shield.
I think I am going to invent a set of goggles with windshield wipers.
I know that the last time I drove across Western Nebraska, I had to pull off the interstate a couple of times just to clean the guts off the windshield on my Thunderbird...
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 04:47 pm |
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marc wrote: empty wrote: We have too many bug seasons down here to go without some sort of windshield or helmet shield.
Those bugs can hurt when they hit too....LOL... ....and contrary to popular myths, they really don't taste all that good either. However, a couple of junebugs can really be filling. 
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marc
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 04:37 pm |
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empty wrote: We have too many bug seasons down here to go without some sort of windshield or helmet shield.
Those bugs can hurt when they hit too....LOL...
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 04:35 pm |
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We have too many bug seasons down here to go without some sort of windshield or helmet shield.
I think I am going to invent a set of goggles with windshield wipers.
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Dave
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 04:31 pm |
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marc wrote:
jeffy ole boy wrote: Marc wrote: If it is 45 and sunny I will go for a short ride...Below that I don't go out...
That is the great thing I quickly noticed about the Dressers. When I rode my friends Dresser the other day, no wind, great for in the Winter.. Maybe put on a short windshield in the Summer to get the wind in your face huh?
Believe it or not...I never had a windshield til I put one on Jacques Sportster in 2000...I took it for a ride and said this is really nice...Got one for myself and never looked back...I use to have a thing about windshields and did not like the way they looked and did not think much about their functionality..No more bugs going splat on my face shield, protection from rocks and other crap and not much wind which I found to be a real PITA on longer high speed rides...Don't have that problem now... I miss the windshield on my bike. They're nice when it starts rainin' too.
No room on the bars and a broken mount have stopped me from puttin' it back on...
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marc
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 04:28 pm |
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jeffy ole boy wrote: Marc wrote: If it is 45 and sunny I will go for a short ride...Below that I don't go out...
That is the great thing I quickly noticed about the Dressers. When I rode my friends Dresser the other day, no wind, great for in the Winter.. Maybe put on a short windshield in the Summer to get the wind in your face huh?
Believe it or not...I never had a windshield til I put one on Jacques Sportster in 2000...I took it for a ride and said this is really nice...Got one for myself and never looked back...I use to have a thing about windshields and did not like the way they looked and did not think much about their functionality..No more bugs going splat on my face shield, protection from rocks and other crap and not much wind which I found to be a real PITA on longer high speed rides...Don't have that problem now...
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Dave
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 04:18 pm |
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Funny thing is, it actually felt warmer ridin' in this morning than it did yesterday. A lot of people don't think it gets cold here in So Cal, or I'm a puss for wearin' thermals, or layering jackets & shirts, etc.
But, 40F degrees at 65 or 70 mph is cold. No matter what part of the country you're in.
A bagger with a fairing and windshield would be nice. But, if I bundle up, it still beats the truck for traffic...
EDIT NWS website calculates 40F at 70mph as 27F...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 03:46 pm |
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Marc wrote: If it is 45 and sunny I will go for a short ride...Below that I don't go out...
That is the great thing I quickly noticed about the Dressers. When I rode my friends Dresser the other day, no wind, great for in the Winter.. Maybe put on a short windshield in the Summer to get the wind in your face huh?
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marc
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 03:24 pm |
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jeffy ole boy wrote: It's about over with unfortunately.
Yup....Almost to cold in the garage to work on the bike...Gona wash & wax it top to bottom and put the cover back on....If it is 45 and sunny I will go for a short ride...Below that I don't go out...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 03:20 pm |
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We have had an entire week of temps in the 60's and 70's. Got to do a lot of ridin' last weekend.
Has been unusually warm for this time of year. It's about over with unfortunately.
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marc
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Posted: Thu Nov 30th, 2006 03:12 pm |
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| Mid 50's...Rain today and tomorrow....Just my luck as I took tomorrow as a vacation day...
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