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Is it me or are we all feeling the summer slowing down?I rode home from work tonight (at 5.00am) and felt a chill in the air...It was only 77 degrees....downright chilly...no realy...chilly.
Summer is ending kids...Thats a good thing.

I feel the same way. Once its under 80 you need to winterize the bike and put it up. brrrr

89F today and 90's the rest of the week. Summer as usual except no rain forecast.

Noooooooo!!!!! Not Yet!!

88 degrees out this way. Still Summer.

I heard geese flying overhead yesterday morning. NOT a good sign!

Yep winter is on the way.
So I spent what should have been a good riding day
getting ready for it.

I'm good down to 30' f. the best riding of the has just begun!

If it aint snowing I'm pretty much ridin.Rolled up to work one late fall morning last year and the sign out side read 25 degrees.

I'm very lucky I reckon. It stays nice enough here year round to ride as long as it ain't rainin'/snowin' when I open the garage door.

A chill in the air ~~

It is supposed to be 105 on Thursday and Friday. Isn't Las Wages just as warm as Fresno?

Gee Rev, evidently you've never been told how the town of Fresno got it's name, huh?!

You see, years ago right after Kit Carson first made it over the High Sierras and down into California lush Central Valley(but first stopping by to say hello and "chow down" with the Donner Party ), Carson asked the first indian he met(by present location, about where Hwy99 meets Hwy41) why it seemed so much warmer down there as compared to where the Donners were stuck.

And when the intrepid pathfinder asked the indian if it ever gets really cold around there, the indian answered, "Freeze?" No!"

(and as you can probably tell, over the years that was shortened to...well, I'm sure you know the rest here, right?!)

It's been cold here in Brisbane, just starting to show signs of warmth in the last couple of days. A couple of weeks ago me & the missus had to make a dash home (30 miles) on the America- ambient tempeture was -1 deg C , god knows what the wind chill factor was, it took us 25 mins. instead of the usual 45 mins. slipped into copius amounts of Single Malt when we got home, don't remember much after that

Being in Germany we get 4 weeks of summer a year...time to break out the studded tires again. Thank goodness I learned to ride on flat tracks

9 months to go than I'm home in California FOR GOOD!

Calling fer 12c or about 55 on saturday out this way.

We're finally back down into the 70's this week. Woohoo!

I think we may have approached 100 here last weekend. It definitely topped 100 when I was in Spokane last weekend.

Lately, the ride into work has been in the f50's. Brr. Chilly. But usually I ride until my eyeballs freeze.

Jes ride slower and you won't be so cold. Mope down Summerlin Parkway at 50 in the grandma lane and take 95 North at 55 instead of 80. Avoid 215 totally and all that grooved concrete (gives me the willies) and stick to surface streets after 95, like Ann road. Smell the moist air near Angel Park GC and enjoy the ride.

Better yet continue on to Lake Mead and take a ride up the west coast of Lake Mead to Valley of Fire in the AM. Enjoy the sunrise and have a decent breakfast in Overton and come on back down 15 to home and a good days sleep before going back to Red Rock in the evening.

You all act like winter is a bad thing. That's RIDING SEASON here in Phoenix! Short sleeve weather by afternoon.

It was in the 60's here this morning on the ride in to work. With the warm weather we've been having lately I dang near frooze to death. Got to break out the regular leather jacket and stow the blow through.

Yeah Bill. I've noticed going to work at 6:30 AM, that it's a bit cooler.

Coming home at 6:00PM though, it's still hot

......and we've lost about 2 1/2 hours of daylight, it happens almost every year about this time. I like June , somebody check the wood pile

jh

The probelm is it was cold and raining all through late july and early august. 3 straight weeks of it.
So it feels like we missed a season. We have had a nice couple of weeks lately that almost make up for it. The wife is riding into work everyday and I'm taking the bike to meetings etc.
We've been trying to knock out as much hay as we can and last night I started back up on splitting wood. Got 3-4 cords of the 6-7 required all set to go.