winter
Road Captain
Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 653
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From: Chino Valley, Arizona
This is Arizona; days I don't ride are pretty rare, even up here a mile high, but ice will send me out to my 4x4. My bike is my usual transportation, not a recreational vehicle; it's gotta be pretty nasty to start up that ol' gas guzzler.
Grand HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 4,915
Likes: 8
From: Austin TX
I actually moved from MN because I didn't want to be without my motor bike for half my life. I settled in Austin for 17 years and now have been in Phoenix for about 10. During my time in MN I rode with some pretty hardcore characters, but not ONE of them could ride all year long there like I have actually heard some people claim they do. I know I couldn't. So one day I decided I wasn't going to put my bike away for the winter ever again, and I moved. Never regretted the decision.
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Joined: May 2012
Posts: 1,956
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From: CA
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Tourer
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 477
Likes: 8
From: Kennedale,Tx
In Texas we have a saying: If you don't like the weather today then wait a couple of days.
Txswede, We visited the kid in Virginia,MN. several years back. It was in mid March, Left to head back home, temp. was -15F. By the time we hit Deluth headed south on I-35 probally right around 0F. Passed up a couple of guys on EG'S. I thought now, that is hardcore riding.
Txswede, We visited the kid in Virginia,MN. several years back. It was in mid March, Left to head back home, temp. was -15F. By the time we hit Deluth headed south on I-35 probally right around 0F. Passed up a couple of guys on EG'S. I thought now, that is hardcore riding.
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 3,255
Likes: 112
From: Florida
Here in Minnesota I hear about 1000's of guys who "say" they ride year round, but my job involves lots of time in the cage during winter and I never see anybody riding in January or February (or December for that matter). Myself, I usually put the bikes away around Thanksgiving and take them out of storage on April Fools Day. On rare occasion I'll go for a ride in the dead of winter if the temp gets above 50 and no ice or slush on the roads.