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*Touring Ted* 9 Jan 2016 20:44

Things to keep busy with over winter...
 
What the rain just doesn't stop and the wind is cold and howling, what do you busy yourself with ??

I hate this time of year. It's boring !!

Tonight I'm polishing my boots :Beach:

Mezo 9 Jan 2016 21:21

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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted* (Post 526494)
What the rain just doesn't stop and the wind is cold and howling

:freezing::rain::stormy::boat::9898:

Go down the pub, that worked for me. bier

Threewheelbonnie 9 Jan 2016 21:22

Fit sidecar, put on waterproofs, go for a drive :cool4:

Andy

rymm 9 Jan 2016 22:26

put on the waterproofs, and carry on. (and get cold and wet anyways because there is no beating it)
but i don't have much of a choice though.
i have heard of these.... things. like a motorbike with 4 wheels and a roof... a car?
weather like this does make me think about adopting such a crazy contraption.
but then i remember i'm poor :(
if i can only have one, i'll stick with the little bike.

*Touring Ted* 9 Jan 2016 22:42

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Originally Posted by rymm (Post 526508)
put on the waterproofs, and carry on. (and get cold and wet anyways because there is no beating it)
but i don't have much of a choice though.
i have heard of these.... things. like a motorbike with 4 wheels and a roof... a car?
weather like this does make me think about adopting such a crazy contraption.
but then i remember i'm poor :(
if i can only have one, i'll stick with the little bike.

I was like that for over ten years. Looks like I'll be going back that way in March !!

TheWarden 9 Jan 2016 22:53

Go for a drive in my nice warm and dry landcruiser
Plan the next trip
Repair the LC after the last trip
Prep the track car for dry weather

But winters crap in the UK

backofbeyond 10 Jan 2016 10:49

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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted* (Post 526494)
What the rain just doesn't stop and the wind is cold and howling, what do you busy yourself with ??


Should move down south Ted, it's eternal sunshine round here :rofl: (I wish).

Yesterday was going to be the start of prepping my little Suzuki for the Altes Elephant at the Nurburgring in a month's time but with no heating in the garage and the rain blowing in the door that idea didn't last long. I went to kick the tyres at the local bike dealers instead.

I should have been doing my tax return ... :(

Threewheelbonnie 10 Jan 2016 11:45

Every dealer I passed this morning was closed. Harley you expect, but shouldn't Honda be flogging Africa Twins and CG125s?

Theyve also closed one of my favourite roads. Namby pamby safety elves. The water was only a foot deep ( well that or the Lycra prats ignoring the road closed signs were 8 foot tall) .

Andy

backofbeyond 10 Jan 2016 12:40

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Originally Posted by Threewheelbonnie (Post 526544)
Every dealer I passed this morning was closed. Harley you expect, but shouldn't Honda be flogging Africa Twins and CG125s?

Theyve also closed one of my favourite roads. Namby pamby safety elves. The water was only a foot deep ( well that or the Lycra prats ignoring the road closed signs were 8 foot tall) .

Andy

No point in opening the shop when everyone's in church :rofl:

The rain held off long enough this morning that I could go out running. Quite a few of my cross country routes are waterlogged so it was the local ex railway line now cycle track instead. Loads of Lycra (+bike) for Christmas "prats" and shiny new trainers runners around. The dog walkers and horse riders were being terrorised (for a change) by packs of middle aged nouveaux bikers ignoring the by-laws bearing down on them. :rofl:

The only good aspect is that for a short time there are some slower runners than me around - I wonder how many I'll still see in a months time.

Threewheelbonnie 10 Jan 2016 13:46

If the cabin fever is that bad have two minutes of sidecaring here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1044429...eat=directlink

You'll have to sort your own sound track. I was listening to the Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams, but you could go for the Combine Harvester song by the Worzels to match the Guzzis engineering, Who let the dogs out for Thing my Navigator or whatever you fancy

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...426_132018.jpg

Andy

backofbeyond 10 Jan 2016 14:20

That looks like me 59 secs in, plodding along a soggy road to nowhere. :rofl: Poor b*gger.

g6snl 10 Jan 2016 18:05

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Originally Posted by backofbeyond (Post 526543)

I should have been doing my tax return ... :(

I am doing my tax return & my wife's ! AND today the sun was doing it large :Beach:

But to cheer myself up I looked on facebook ...yeah yeah ........( I have a few carefully chosen friends) One of my friends posted that he had just taken his wife out on the back of his bike for the first time ever. She loved it.

New travel playmates for the wife and me :thumbup1:

g6snl 10 Jan 2016 18:07

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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted* (Post 526494)
What the rain just doesn't stop and the wind is cold and howling, what do you busy yourself with ??

I hate this time of year. It's boring !!

Tonight I'm polishing my boots :Beach:

It is summer somewhere ..............

Shrekonwheels 10 Jan 2016 21:43

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Blog, sit around and wish I lived in the south, or go snow shoeing. :funmeteryes:

tremens 11 Jan 2016 00:07

In winter I do my pipe dreaming bier

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...s_3395877b.jpg


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