Cold on the motor this morn

I did a little bit of practicing this morning.
Wanted to try out my idea of having ''leggins'' plus my goodlooking
Leather Chaps, that I got for my BD.
At 7a.m....It was about 39* with a bit of frost, when I took off, to
ride the loop.
Hail I saw a Harley guy riding along with nothing on his pinHead...and
barely had a WS...made me feel odd, wearing all my shit.....but I'm
practicing for a Northern ride here in a coupla days....

 

I've always ridden without a WS but always wear a helmet with a faceshield
or a full face with faceshild when it gets too nippy. It was supposed to get
down to 39
here in Houston overnight. Judging by how it felt this AM getting the
newspaper, I don't think it
got near that cold.

 

Good to see you practicing, BJay!

I'm probably not permitted to tell you this, but we have a secret
weapon up here... Heated vests.

 

=====Yeah I know about those.I've seen 'em in JCW catalogs......but I
doubt seriously you'd find many Texans wearing the Heated Vests.
Myabe those riders out west, around Amarillo..or up to El Paso
area....but around here...even when the day starts out 40 or
below...it just about always will be 10-20 degress warmer by
noon...then we have to start taking 'off' layers...RGD, you all up
there...have real winters, and it stays the same degree (like 32 or
below) day in and out...for days, I hear...
I can see that ya'll need the Heated Vests............stuff like
that...................=MrJayT=

 

like these? http://www.mydivascloset.com/stlefor7.html
dammit pender, stop top posting, that's big ed's schtick

 

That is allright.He will pay.

 

Yep, and it's hardly noticable to the casual observer. Just this
little, inconspicuous wire coming down from under the jacket, attached
to a tiny plug-in coming out of the bike...

 

Yeah, it sure is different up here. But we get used to it.

As an example, my wife went on a 400 mile ride today (by herself, it
being her day off). Rode all the way to Rocky Mountain House (near
the Rocky Mountains, as the name implies) on her Sporty. The
temperature was around 40 F when she left. She had a heated vest on.

I ride to work every day on the Street Bob and, more often than not,
it's below 32 F when I leave in the morning. No windshield on that
bike to help out.

 

Hehehe Thanks for the visual, Pender.

Ever thought of joining the circus?

 

Pender, what tha' hail you doing 'top posting', so dern ass much....
It just doesnt look good on you....it looks really good on Big Ed Hart,
but you should see it thru my Web unit eyes.....If you could, you woodnt
be a doing it.....it makes me have to down, to see what the heck you
were responding to, then go back up top, to refresh my demetian mind
what you were saying...down and up, up and down....she'it.
(chuckle)-JayTHeHe

 

RGD wrote (In Part) ''bjay,I ride to work every day on the Street Bob
and, more often than not, it's below 32 F when I leave in the morning.
No windshield on that bike to help out. RGD.

====I cetainly appreciate and admire that your wife rode 400 miles, in
cold ass weather, and rode solo, I really do.
Hey, no Windshield/?????? why. That really seems silly to me......I
guess you wanta look cool....(hehe) You Harley fellers, are just
''gungho...for attention''....(hehehe)
Just messing witchcha? None of my dern business,........MrJayT=

 

I done told him I was going to whip his ass if he did not stop it. Big Ed is
the only one allowed to top post.

 

It's just a lot tougher to get a bug meal with a derned windshield in front
of your face.

 

That's right. And besides, once the weather turns this cold, you
don't need a windshield to keep the bugs off ya. They're not flying
around anymore when they're all already dead! <g>

 

Heh, heh. She told me about when she stopped in a tiny town to get
gas yesterday.

As she dismounted her bike and went in to pay, there was an old man
watching her with a worried look on his face. When she returned to
the bike he walked up and asked if she was okay.

"Aren't you cold?"

"No, I'm just fine."

"Aren't you afraid of getting lost?"

"No, I have a map in my saddlebag, thanks."

She just giggled about it later. He was really concerned.

 

RGD agrees with HaroldG:''That's right. And besides, once the weather
turns this cold, you don't need a windshield to keep the bugs off ya.
They're not flying around anymore when they're all already dead! <g>
RGdamnD)

=====I dont guess you fellers ..'dont..'know something. They're called
WindSHIELDS, not BugShitShields.......wind is cold & windy....
whatever.....Bugs, aint the issue.....The issue is voting out them dern
'Re'publicans.........hail'Yeah........JayTFus

 

I once saw a rider ahead of me, catch a June bug in the forehead
(after it missed his windshield), and he nearly got knocked out. I
have a friend called "Rock", for a reason. It missed his windshield
and near cracked open his skull. A rock kicked up by a truck, hit my
windshield so hard that it sounded like a gunshot. I have had stuff
smash into my helmet so hard that it knocked my head backwards. Birds
have bounced off Joe's windshield, while he was riding with me. I'm
going to use whatever protection I need. Not to mention that a
winshield is a handy place to duck down and ride behind, when it's
pelting rain and hail.
A windshield also keeps my lungs from getting crushed, or my boobs
from flapping under my armpits while riding at 70+ mph. There's a
picture for ya. ;-)

 

Heh, heh. Yeah, that's something to picture alright!

While on the topic, do you ever get the wind oscillation so that your
jacket flaps just right? Not saying who, but a certain woman has
reported to me it's quite nice when it happens!

 

Well the windshield is used for different puposes at different time of the
year
at different locations. If I lived where the temperatures regularly dropped
below freezeing I think I would definitely have one. Especially for long
distance riding, which I haven't done in decades, it is especially needful.
I remember my ride Houston to Massachusetts and then to Montreal
and back in the 75 when my neck and shoulders were killing me. Not
much fun there.

 

The main thing I would like to prevent with the windshield is my moustache
hairs flying up my nose. I understand some windshield - bike combos don't
really prevent that and may actually encourage it.