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badinfluence63 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:51 am **Posts:** 1966

Here we are in Northern NH and the temps are vascilating between 50 degrees one minute and 9 degrees the next. Sunny one minute and a freaken snow storm the next BUT...we are getting closer and closer to legitimate riding weather. Just the glint of a 50 degree day gets me startig to think about it. I prefer to wait until the salt particularly has been washed away with April showers.

When I prep and cover my bike sometime in November, I'm just conditioned not to torment myself to think about it if I can help it. Not hard to do when you're in the midst of 2 feet of snow.

As the saying goes: "March, in like a lion and out like a lamb!"

Kickstand · **Joined:** Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:01 pm **Posts:** 558

badinfluence63 wrote:

Here we are in Northern NH and the temps are vascilating between 50 degrees one minute and 9 degrees the next. Sunny one minute and a freaken snow storm the next BUT...we are getting closer and closer to legitimate riding weather. Just the glint of a 50 degree day gets me startig to think about it. I prefer to wait until the salt particularly has been washed away with April showers.

When I prep and cover my bike sometime in November, I'm just conditioned not to torment myself to think about it if I can help it. Not hard to do when you're in the midst of 2 feet of snow.

As the saying goes: "March, in like a lion and out like a lamb!"

That would be tough having to put it away for months. I would be going nuts. I bet that's when you guys do your mod's on your bikes? If I had no choice but to store it then I would be tearing into it every winter.

badinfluence63 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:51 am **Posts:** 1966

Traditionally it was the time to redo your bike. My 2012 Ultra is perfect and needs nothing. Maybe a new cover. The old cover fit the 2001 and 1998 perfectly, not so much the 2012 with the new frame changes. Makes the old cover tight. Thought I'd get one for Christmas...... :icon_bang:

roadking · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:18 am

Yeah - I remember March in the Great North East...
Freeze... Thaw... Repeat daily... The roads get pot holed - the cars get filthy. BUT- the days are getting longer and the "Average" temps start climbing.
Won't be long now - you'll be going for your first ride of the year soon, I hope its a good one.

Kickstand · **Joined:** Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:01 pm **Posts:** 558

Looking at the psychology of Bad, I bet that first ride of the season is almost a religous experience. Being trapped in an ice cave for months to finally emerge to a warm spring day riding his bike through the beautiful New Hampshire landscape. That's got to be a cool feeling :icon_smoking:

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badinfluence63 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:51 am **Posts:** 1966

Kickstand wrote:

Looking at the psychology of Bad, I bet that first ride of the season is almost a religous experience. Being trapped in an ice cave for months to finally emerge to a warm spring day riding his bike through the beautiful New Hampshire landscape. That's got to be a cool feeling :icon_smoking:

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It is KS..that and re-awakening the long dorment riding skilz. Believe it or not it takes a good week or 2 of riding back and forth to work to kick things in. Not so much the shifting/breaking/throttle as much as the natural integration and ebb and flow into and of traffic.

roadking · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:48 pm

Kickstand wrote:

Looking at the psychology of Bad, I bet that first ride of the season is almost a religious experience. Being trapped in an ice cave for months to finally emerge to a warm spring day riding his bike through the beautiful New Hampshire landscape. That's got to be a cool feeling :icon_smoking:

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After being off the bike for a while I have to agree. My first ride after years off the bike was just that.

badinfluence63 wrote:

It is KS..that and re-awakening the long dorment riding skilz. Believe it or not it takes a good week or 2 of riding back and forth to work to kick things in. Not so much the shifting/breaking/throttle as much as the natural integration and ebb and flow into and of traffic.

I had the same experience - the muscle memory of actually riding was there but the thought processes had to be re-awakened, well put.

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