Brrrrrr ! !

Now this is going too damn far.. The chill factor has been down in the
teens.. And .. it's getting colder.. Predicting single digits tonight..
Whew.. Hey somebody.. this is Texas.. we're not really used to all this
frigid weather..

I fell out of this nice and toasty mobile home this morning, thinking I'd
better check out the Green One .. Whew.. are you kidding.. My tail feathers
frosted before I could get the cover off that puppy..

Needless to say, the mexican was hot on my case, real quick.. "Tu no puede
manajar este Moto, es demasiado frio".. hmmm.. whatever all that means..
<chuckle>.. I got the idea that she didn't want me to mount that Vulcan,
today.. I did manage to crank 'er up for a few minutes, though.. Never
heard such a commotion as she was making, all the time.. She even hid my
boots from me..

Couldn't resist calling my good friend Jailcall to see how he's holding up
in the Austin area.. Sheesh.. it's cold there, too... The Harley is parked
for the duration, it seems.. Now that is hard to do with a new ride.. Been
there, done that..

I can imagine my friend in Texarkana, making his way to DFW on IH-35,
today.. Phew.. what a trip.. hmmm.. Did I make a mistake, here.. Nah..
that's what he said, alright.. I'm thinking my friend Bjay needs to get him
some updated maps..

IceMan is probably on an airplane, headed for Florida about now.. Ain't he
the smart one..? Course it is off season, but I suspect the temps around
Orlando is a lot milder than they are here..

From what I'm seeing on the weather reports, Houston is having some pretty
cold stuff down there, also.. With all the new Harleys being reported
bought, on this newsgroup.. we'll be hearing about a bunch of disappointed
bikers who can't ride them.. Morgan Kane is probably going to be hard
pressed, that new Electra Glide might set up and get rusty, if this weather
doesn't break... Condolences...

This holiday season is going to be a bit different than what the mexican and
I are accustomed to.. This is the first Christmas and New Year that we've
spent away from Guadalajara for quite a few years.. Just decided we wouldn't
fight the traffic this year.. Whew.. with all this cold weather, I'm not
sure we made the right choice.. LOL..

Enough of the rambling in this post.. MERRY XMAS everyone.. Have yourself a
good one and keep warm.. OK ?

Your friend in Irving
Bill Walker

 

Xmas. Lazy fucking assholes.

 

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 05:09:28 GMT, "James Wilson" <James

Lame name flame from a top posting fuckhead noted.

Xmas? You're a lazy **** too, eh?

It's -CHRISTMAS-, not Xmas. Lazy bastards can't type 5 more letters?
Feh.

 

Although only somewhat related, I thought I'd go find a site that
could calculate wind chill factors. Not that I'm goin' ridin' anytime
soon, but it seemed like fun to gauge the temps at various speeds.

So, I was kinda' happy in finding the following site:

http://www.magnaownersoftexas.org/wind.htm

My first entry was 28 degrees @ 60mph, -10 degrees - neat....

Next, I tried 28 degrees @ 80 mph, thinking I should get a little
closer to -20. WTF, -7? How can 60 mph produce -10, and 80
mph produce -7?

Now, changing to diagnostic mode, I use 120 mph. WTF again,
now I'm at +6 degrees. How can this be?

200 mph produces 49 degrees. Maybe that's the solution, if I can
just get a 200 mph ride, I'll warm up - (not).

I know nothing really, about wind chill, but I'm pretty sure that the
greater the wind speed, the lower temperature. I guess the owner
of this site has some more debugging to do.

Thanks,

Gary Walker

 

Thanks, I'll take a look....

I just assumed that the temperature decreased as the wind speed
increased.


Gary Walker

 

Whew... never occurred to me about how complex the relationship between
speed and chill factor might be..

My concept is this .. When it gets below a certain temperature, like maybe
30 degrees, it is too damn cold for me to be blazing down a highway on a
motorcycle..

Has anyone noticed that speeds in excess of about 95 mph, the sensation of
speed is not really noticeable.. I've ridden a motorcycle at speeds up to
160 mph (not recommended) .. If I'd not been accompanied by two other
vehicles to register that speed, I'd not have realized just how fast I was
going.. hmmm.. Do you suppose that the chill factor might be a similar
sensation, at that point.??

Sheesh .. I don't know.. It is cold outside, but the weather reports
indicate a slight warmup is on the way, for the weekend..

Your friend in Irving
Bill Walker

 

LMAO.. That ol' hide sure is fascinated with this tx.motorcycle newsgroup,
isn't he ? If he wasn't so well known on usenet, he might have some
credibility..

Your friend in Irving
Bill Walker

 

<snip?

Maybe he meant "Merry TXmas".

 

At some point, temp will increase.

Now, I just need to figure out how to get my bike to Mach 3.

 

Gary Burnore is a sex offender.

http://archives.mfn.org/

 

You're ass-u-ming that a convicted child molester like Gary Burnore would
know such things as "religious ideas and expressions"?

 

<>Gary Walker<> in part says<>~~My first entry was 28 degrees @ 60mph,
-10 degrees - neat....
Next, I tried 28 degrees @ 80 mph, thinking I should get a little closer
to -20. WTF, -7? How can 60 mph produce -10, and 80 mph produce -7?
Now, changing to diagnostic mode, I use 120 mph. WTF again, now I'm at
+6 degrees. How can this be?
200 mph produces 49 degrees. Maybe that's the solution, if I can just
get a 200 mph ride, I'll warm up - (not).
I know nothing really, about wind chill, but I'm pretty sure that the
greater the wind speed, the lower temperature. I guess the owner of this
site has some more debugging to do.
Thanks,
Gary Walker
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I ran into the same
mysterious problem. I just guessed that the chill factor could be, say,
30%, one time. Okay..... 40* @ 60MPH, times
30%= 20 degrees...but then I got bumfuzzled..when I figured..... 40* @
120MPH, times 30%=40*.......like you, I said, there's gotta be a way,
that I don't know. It was warmer, to ride a lot faster, and we know that
ain't right.....and your noted Site, figured the same way.....faster
means warmer, according to the Site.
That's so funny) bj

‹›Håvé Gøøð ðå¥, åmîgø‹›ßjåy‹›

 

I think we all know, that on a hot summer day, say 95*, that a fan will
bring down tha temp..(atleast makes us feel cooler). like you are
sitting out on the patio, and so 4th. What about that? ..right.

‹›Håvé Gøøð ðå¥, åmîgø‹›ßjåy‹›

 

X-No-archive: yes

You have evaporative and convection cooling going on then. Wind chill
is logarithmic (not linear) up to some determined maximum effect where
it then levels off. A speed increase might be a 20% affect early on
but that same increase may only be a 5% later along the curve (and no
increase in existing chill rate past the plateau).

 

X-No-archive: yes

"then" = summer

rates of change in the effect of wind chill = references increased
based on rate of wind speed increases.

--
Mark Johnson, Ft. Worth, TX
http://www.bikes-n-spikes.org
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by
legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being
stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime, the
sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out
automatically and without pity." ~ Robert Heinlein

 

<>rates of change in the effect of wind chill = references increased
based on rate of wind speed increases.
--
Mark Johnson, Ft. Worth, Tx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
rates can be changed equally, if all circumstances fits the situation,
other wise, the increased wind resistence is decreased, according to
Prof. Bjay

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åmîgø’‹›­­ßjay­­‹›