Posted by sleazy on January 2, 2010, 8:03 am
It's nearly time to get outta here for the day's festivities. A bunch
of us are getting together for breakfast and then heading over to the
show to relieve the mid-winter stress. Packing both credit cards and
planning some serious powershopping for sport touring accessories on
the Daytona. Hopefully, they don't let me down and make me bring all
that cash home to be spent on the internet.
Pictures later today after the pub crawl following the show.
--
sleazy
2001 BMW R1150GS
1988 Honda XR600R
1996 Triumph Daytona 1200
Posted by Mark Olson on January 2, 2010, 8:28 am
sleazy wrote:
> It's nearly time to get outta here for the day's festivities. A bunch
> of us are getting together for breakfast and then heading over to the
> show to relieve the mid-winter stress. Packing both credit cards and
> planning some serious powershopping for sport touring accessories on the
> Daytona. Hopefully, they don't let me down and make me bring all that
> cash home to be spent on the internet.
>
> Pictures later today after the pub crawl following the show.
I keep wanting to ride my bike to the show but since it's in February and
I live 20+ miles from the Minneapolis Convention Center it hasn't yet worked
out. Maybe global warming will come through for me.
I rarely buy anything more substantial than a T-shirt at the show. I take
a lot of pictures and ogle the brolly girls at the Ducati stand. The last
couple of years one of them was a former high school classmate of my older
son. My wife knew her and stopped to chat. Which was nice.
Posted by sleazy on January 2, 2010, 8:38 am
> sleazy wrote:
>> It's nearly time to get outta here for the day's festivities. A bunch
>> of us are getting together for breakfast and then heading over to the
>> show to relieve the mid-winter stress. Packing both credit cards and
>> planning some serious powershopping for sport touring accessories on
>> the Daytona. Hopefully, they don't let me down and make me bring all
>> that cash home to be spent on the internet.
>>
>> Pictures later today after the pub crawl following the show.
>
> I keep wanting to ride my bike to the show but since it's in February and
> I live 20+ miles from the Minneapolis Convention Center it hasn't yet worked
> out. Maybe global warming will come through for me.
>
> I rarely buy anything more substantial than a T-shirt at the show. I take
> a lot of pictures and ogle the brolly girls at the Ducati stand. The last
> couple of years one of them was a former high school classmate of my older
> son. My wife knew her and stopped to chat. Which was nice.
I left the Daytona in the garage on the offhand chance of a ride too.
Fail. The neighborhood roads are snow covered still, not to mention
the 18* temp and a 20 mile ride.
--
sleazy
2001 BMW R1150GS
1988 Honda XR600R
1996 Triumph Daytona 1200
Posted by Mark Olson on January 2, 2010, 8:59 am
sleazy wrote:
> I left the Daytona in the garage on the offhand chance of a ride too.
> Fail. The neighborhood roads are snow covered still, not to mention the
> 18* temp and a 20 mile ride.
Is it that warm there? It's around -18F (-28C) here.
Many of our roads are covered with rock hard sheets of very slick ice.
Snowed like a bastard, a lot melted but there wasn't time for the
melt water to run off before it got cold again so the world's covered
in ice. And since it's below 0F now, the ice melting chemicals (OK,
salt) don't work and who knows when it's going to change.
Posted by sleazy on January 2, 2010, 4:52 pm
> sleazy wrote:
>
>> I left the Daytona in the garage on the offhand chance of a ride too.
>> Fail. The neighborhood roads are snow covered still, not to mention
>> the 18* temp and a 20 mile ride.
>
> Is it that warm there? It's around -18F (-28C) here.
>
> Many of our roads are covered with rock hard sheets of very slick ice.
> Snowed like a bastard, a lot melted but there wasn't time for the
> melt water to run off before it got cold again so the world's covered
> in ice. And since it's below 0F now, the ice melting chemicals (OK,
> salt) don't work and who knows when it's going to change.
I was wrong on the temp, guessing at it by the forecast. We never got
above 9* today by the actual thermometer. Wind chills well below zero
too. Our streets did the same as yours, but we had one day of sun that
evaporated a bunch of the water on the main drags. The secondaries are
still icy and snow covered. The dirt road leading out of our area is
heavily pocked with holes and slick to boot.
--
sleazy
2001 BMW R1150GS
1988 Honda XR600R
1996 Triumph Daytona 1200
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> of us are getting together for breakfast and then heading over to the
> show to relieve the mid-winter stress. Packing both credit cards and
> planning some serious powershopping for sport touring accessories on the
> Daytona. Hopefully, they don't let me down and make me bring all that
> cash home to be spent on the internet.
>
> Pictures later today after the pub crawl following the show.