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It's supposed to be 63 degrees on Sunday. If time permits, I'll start the new year with a ride.  Anyone else planning the same?
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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Yep, going on the annual Polar Bear Ride here in the St Louis area next Sunday.
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You betcha, if it aint pouring the rain I'm riding the range 
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40 degrees and showers in the forcast here in Seattle area...Oly Rats usually get together for coffee and bench racing on New Years day(100 mile round trip) as well as my clean and sober friends in Covington...Rain and showers I will gear up for the Covington Starbucks ride(20 miles roundtrip my home)
life is good..I am retired..sold my America in 2008,bought a Rocket and sold that in 3/2013 and now own a new Triumph Bonneville T-100
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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They've forecasted RAIN and 40s this week. Ridiculous for late December in Montana.
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We'll hafta send pics to these Northern fellas.  Mmmm , 63 degrees. Nice.
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Steelheart- '03 Speedmaster Black/Yellow
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"There is no cure for Celibacy. But we can treat the symptoms."
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We'll hafta send pics to these Northern fellas.
Mmmm , 63 degrees. Nice.
Here we go....another smart a--  . Yep we appreciate any pics you southern folk can take of your rides during these pristine snowmobile riding days. -25C today and there is so much snow on the road that you can't see the pavement.  My chum went to the warehouse where his bike is stored to .....ahem...."touch it" because he's in withdrawal. I'm not far behind. 
At least it isn't Frank W giving us the one two this winter. It's our US kin giving it instead of our "down under"....ahem..... friends. What's this world coming too? 
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Yep, I was thinking the same thing. Supposed to be mid-50's here in the Ozarks and no rain.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
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Yuup! I love Florida!
At nearby Deal's Gap they sell tee shirts that say something like "Deal's Gap, 11 miles 317 curves." A buddy of mine that lives in Jacksonville showed up here wearing a tee shirt that said "Florida, 317 miles 11 curves."
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Yep just like every day to me now.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Same here in the ATL...I'll be out if I can shake this head cold....
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Got our first dusting of snow for the season here in the mountains. Might be a KLR day instead of a Triumph day.
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I don't know about New Years day but the next 4 days are going to be clear and about 64. So I'll be riding to work the rest of the week and New Years Eve.  
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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The first year I got my BA we had a freak 70 degree New Years day. It seemed everyone who had a bike was out.
This year looks like mid 50s but that's good enough for me. I'll be out.
'04 TBA Black
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Yuup! I love Florida!
At nearby Deal's Gap they sell tee shirts that say something like "Deal's Gap, 11 miles 317 curves." A buddy of mine that lives in Jacksonville showed up here wearing a tee shirt that said "Florida, 317 miles 11 curves."
But then again Chet, wouldn't ya think there'd be twisties galore up and around those Ponce De Leon and Don Shula Mountain Ranges down there in Florida???
(...of course, the SAME guy who told me that there WERE Ponce De Leon and Don Shula Mountain Ranges down there ALSO once tried to sell me sight unseen what he called "some good bottom land" half-way between Miami and Tampa...and so I'm not too sure you can thrust ANYTHING that THAT guy ever said!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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It's suppose to be mild for the rest of the week. Would love to ride to work, however, it's dark when I leave. Every other morning, I see the remains of deer that were hit the night before. 
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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Got the sled/skidoo/snowmobile all tuned and ready to rip 'er up for New Years. Just gotta watch out for those dang trees that keep moving around, friggin' Ents that they are!
Live to love, love to live.
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We're riding and then watching football.
Supposed to be nice here, low 40's no rain or snow.
Very warm for us this time of year.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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