 Never believe the weatherman!
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Today was supposed to be the best day of the weekend for riding (80 degrees and partly cloudy). Moral of the story is a tank later and about 150 miles from the house (over in West Virginia) the clouds bunch up and the bottom drops out. Turn around and head back towards civilization to try and find some shelter but by the time I get there I'm 100% soaked to the bone. Stop and top the tank off and head back on towards to the house figuring I'll ride out of the rain and be dry before I get home. No such luck, it poured all the way home. When I finally got home I stripped off all the soaking wet clothes and hit the shower. After about 30 minutes in a hot shower (I think I partially recovered from the hypothermia) went outside and checked on Elvira. Poor girl looked at me like I was a POS for riding her in the pouring down rain. She is going to need an every square inch, every nut and bolt cleaning/polishing. Damn stupid weatherman!!!
'06 TBA - Black, AI and Snorkel removed, K&N Drop In, Gutted Stock Pipes, 145/42, 2 turns out.
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Saddle Sore
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Bummer, but has been said before. Ya ride,ya gonna get wet. I have been soaked to the bone too many times. Lightining bolts bouncing on both sides of the road with nowhere to hide. Bet your girl purred right along ?
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Elvira moved on out without a hitch... dielectric grease is the ticket.
'06 TBA - Black, AI and Snorkel removed, K&N Drop In, Gutted Stock Pipes, 145/42, 2 turns out.
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Bar Shake
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Been there more than a few times. At least you weren't 300 or 400 miles from home. 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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Call me crazy - But sometimes I actually find some strange enjoyment in a rain soaked ride. Not often, mind you...
2004 Triumph Speedmaster (J Lo) 2006 Yamaha Stratoliner (Adele)
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Fe Butt
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Yep Barry, funny ain't it?! The rides with a little "adversity" in 'em DO seem to be the ones that stick in the mind a little longer and ones in which we find that "strange enjoyment"! So no, you're no "crazier" than I AM! (...oops...maybe that last part ain't what ya wanted to hear, huh!) 
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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Well, Dwight - I'll take that how I think you meant it and not how it sounds. Hehehe.
2004 Triumph Speedmaster (J Lo) 2006 Yamaha Stratoliner (Adele)
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Yea, I know what you mean about weathermen. They had predicted rain all weekend here. We ended up with Bright sunny skies all day Sunday and temperatures between 17-25C. Beautiful Riding. Still Smiling.
Looks like like they got their reports mixed up and we got yours and you got ours.
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Monkey Butt
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I was once sitting on the flight deck in the middle of a heavy downpour while the ship weather radio was saying it was clear and beautiful outside. I radioed the weather guessers and simply asked them if they had looked outside.
Several hours later the guy in charge of the weather guessers tracked me down and griped at me because I "embarrassed" them. When I replied that if they just looked outside and updated their tape they could avoid such embarrassment he called me a nasty name and left. I guess they get touchy about being wrong all the time.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Quote:
I was once sitting on the flight deck in the middle of a heavy downpour while the ship weather radio was saying it was clear and beautiful outside. I radioed the weather guessers and simply asked them if they had looked outside.
Several hours later the guy in charge of the weather guessers tracked me down and griped at me because I "embarrassed" them. When I replied that if they just looked outside and updated their tape they could avoid such embarrassment he called me a nasty name and left. I guess they get touchy about being wrong all the time.
I was once driving by the radio station I had on the radio when the weatherman came on and said that there was a 10% chance of rain..........Correction, make that a 100% chance of rain." It was actually raining at the time and I figured that he had looked out the window. 
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I never listen to the weatherman.
I look at the satellite map and make my own judgements.
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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Monkey Butt
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I never listen to the weatherman.
I look at the satellite map and make my own judgements.
Me too. Our guess is at least as good as theirs.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Fe Butt
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Hey! Don't let any weathermen hear you say this, fellas. Uh huh, they COULD take it as (ahem) an "Occluded Affront"! (...sorry...they can't ALL be gems here, ya know)
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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Loquacious
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I quit listening to the Weathermen in the '60's, after I gave up on the SDS!
Guess it's good to do just that.
And you may see me tonight
With an illegal smile
J. Prine
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New Tires
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I quit listening to the Weathermen in the '60's, after I gave up on the SDS!
Guess it's good to do just that.
Beat me to it.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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