Long Winter

Eddieblz · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:06 pm **Posts:** 617

stairman wrote:

roadking wrote:

You'd hate it here. Sunny, warm, great places to ride... oh yeah, it's legal to split lanes. You get through traffic and get to use the carpool lanes. Can't image why I moved here 30 years ago and never looked back.

I had 1 winter with my bike in the cold and frosty North East. I rode it every chance I got. I remember one day it was my GF's birthday and I had promised her a ride on the bike - January 23, 1995 - go look it up - (-20 degrees that day) We bundled up and drove around the city for a half hour then had to take a 2 hour shower.. I was warm in the first couple minutes... if you get my drift. :icon_winking:

I remember riding with snowbanks on the side of the road but the road was clear. Yeah - it was a cold memory.

Keep warm - check out the ride videos - you ever make it out this way, I'll show you around.

Thanks for the invite. We also have a lot of really good twisty roads to ride here in central Mo. Too bad we can't ride them all year. This year has been extremely cold and snowy. I ride quite a bit in the winter. 30* and dry, I'm on the bike.

Yup me to, except it's not 30*. :icon_twisted:

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

roadking wrote:

You'd hate it here. Sunny, warm, great places to ride... oh yeah, it's legal to split lanes. You get through traffic and get to use the carpool lanes. Can't image why I moved here 30 years ago and never looked back.

I had 1 winter with my bike in the cold and frosty North East. I rode it every chance I got. I remember one day it was my GF's birthday and I had promised her a ride on the bike - January 23, 1995 - go look it up - (-20 degrees that day) We bundled up and drove around the city for a half hour then had to take a 2 hour shower.. I was warm in the first couple minutes... if you get my drift. :icon_winking:

I remember riding with snowbanks on the side of the road but the road was clear. Yeah - it was a cold memory.

Keep warm - check out the ride videos - you ever make it out this way, I'll show you around.

I been there. San Diego proper is massive humanity. 5-7 lanes of traffic. I would think that the selling points of SD is 1)the weather 2)once out of SD proper all the beautiful scenic riding territory. Hows the economy? Real Estate? GAs? Groceries? All of that is regional. When I left NC last week gas was 3.24 a gallon.

roadking · **Posted:** Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:16 pm

badinfluence63 wrote:

I been there. San Diego proper is massive humanity. 5-7 lanes of traffic. I would think that the selling points of SD is 1)the weather 2)once out of SD proper all the beautiful scenic riding territory. Hows the economy? Real Estate? GAs? Groceries? All of that is regional. When I left NC last week gas was 3.24 a gallon.

San Diego is just one city - Where I live is a group of cities that go on for miles and miles in every direction. We have freeways that have 14 lanes - 7 each side. So if you're not a confident driver/rider this isn't the place for you. And then throw in all the really bad drivers and whew!! you're lucky to get anywhere... Then I start hearing one of my favorite songs - I Love LA by Gary Newman - playing in my head and all of a sudden rolling down the coast highway just seems so cool, easily worth putting up with any of the minor inconveniences that everyday life out here in paradise brings.

Wish I could bottle it and send it back there for you..

Groceries - milk 339, gas 375 sunshine all year long - PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :icon_laughing:

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

I dislike urban compact. My little hacienda in rural Eastern Carolina is just what the doctor ordered, I should have never left. NC has the coast,the mountains and what they call the coastal plain (which is where my place is). You can leave my house take a right or a left and travel for hours and hours on back roads and hardly see a vehicle in that time. Or you can take the main roads and branch off'n those as you desire. Yeah the cities like Goldsboro, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel hill also known as "The Research Triangle" and many others is massive urban compact. North Carolina is so huge with so much land one can avoid whatever it is you want to avoid.

harley · **Joined:** Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:19 pm **Posts:** 512

Bi enjoy nc

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

Thanks, thats the plan.

And maybe when you're snowed in you can come on down and visit for a couple days/weeks get in a little more of riding?

roadking · **Posted:** Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:13 pm

badinfluence63 wrote:

I dislike urban compact. My little hacienda in rural Eastern Carolina is just what the doctor ordered, I should have never left. NC has the coast,the mountains and what they call the coastal plain (which is where my place is). You can leave my house take a right or a left and travel for hours and hours on back roads and hardly see a vehicle in that time. Or you can take the main roads and branch off'n those as you desire. Yeah the cities like Goldsboro, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel hill also known as "The Research Triangle" and many others is massive urban compact. North Carolina is so huge with so much land one can avoid whatever it is you want to avoid.

330 days of sunshine - no frost - every cool thing you ever dreamed of came from here... the hottest women, the hottest cars & bikes. I'm sure NC is a nice place to RETIRE... BUT I AINT READY FOR NO PORCH SWING YET BABY!!!!

I get out of my front door hit the freeway out to the first cross road that heads out of town. Within 20 minutes I'm cruising the canyon out of town to the wild warm west. I go down roads the cowboys used. Old stage coach lines and cavalry trails that became the roads. I'm sure you have your ties to the east coast, I know I do. My only regret is my friends didn't come out here with me back in the day. THEIR MISTAKE.

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

roadking wrote:

badinfluence63 wrote:

I dislike urban compact. My little hacienda in rural Eastern Carolina is just what the doctor ordered, I should have never left. NC has the coast,the mountains and what they call the coastal plain (which is where my place is). You can leave my house take a right or a left and travel for hours and hours on back roads and hardly see a vehicle in that time. Or you can take the main roads and branch off'n those as you desire. Yeah the cities like Goldsboro, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel hill also known as "The Research Triangle" and many others is massive urban compact. North Carolina is so huge with so much land one can avoid whatever it is you want to avoid.

330 days of sunshine - no frost - every cool thing you ever dreamed of came from here... the hottest women, the hottest cars & bikes. I'm sure NC is a nice place to RETIRE... BUT I AINT READY FOR NO PORCH SWING YET BABY!!!!

I get out of my front door hit the freeway out to the first cross road that heads out of town. Within 20 minutes I'm cruising the canyon out of town to the wild warm west. I go down roads the cowboys used. Old stage coach lines and cavalry trails that became the roads. I'm sure you have your ties to the east coast, I know I do. My only regret is my friends didn't come out here with me back in the day. THEIR MISTAKE.

Hey! If you agree to visit me one summer I will agree to visit yur area again soon? what do you say?

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