Balmy Montana, 17 below zero here in Butte today but near 30 below up in Havre. Wind chills pegged at 40-55 below. Bare skin has about 60 seconds before the pain sets in, a few minutes before frost-bite. Alas, there is no gear, let alone studded snow tires, to make riding possible. The Feej stays in the garage on the Battery Tender for awhile then... (get out the violins). I'd cry except my eyes would freeze up.
Need more than heated grips...
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Gary F
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Big Sky; That is balmy. We are even colder at about -25F the other night. Let me know when it warms up a little as I am towing an RV south in January. How are the roads in your area for riding when the snow clears ?
Gary
Gary
Joe2Lmaker
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You'll get no sympathy from me.
At least in the summer you don't have to ride across the Great Plains to find some decent roads to ride.
At least in the summer you don't have to ride across the Great Plains to find some decent roads to ride.
HaulinAshe
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Keep it coming guys. I did 700 miles yesterday through the mountains and had the nerve to complain about 30F freezing my poor little toes.
You guys keep me mentally grounded.
You guys keep me mentally grounded.
Yeah, Gary, but how cold was it CENTIGRADE? (jokes) It was -32F in Glasgow, MT last night. Even Satan would find that hellish. Ya can't even snowmobile in this kind of weather. One comforting thought: we are still far short of the all-time state record: -70F at Rogers Pass (west of Great Falls) in 1958. THAT'S cold! At 17 below, we just go about our business, but may put on the long-johns and wool socks.
We have some fine riding in these parts, but we really like some of Wyoming, much of the Idaho Panhandle, some of northeast and northern Washington, and really, really like southern British Columbia.
Joe, I hear ya on that! I used to live in Central and western North Dakota. You can take a nap at the wheel at 65 mph and not run off the road. We used to ride about an hour south of Williston to the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park because there was one 12-mile section of twisty pavement there! Ride it up and down.... No wonder cruisers are so popular on the Plains.
I actually rode Glacier Park in 1981 aboard a 650 Maxim (ouch!) and rode Yellowstone in 1982 on my 750 Sabre (I was getting smarter), then to the West Coast through BC in 1983 on my CB 1100 F, all out of North Dakota. No wonder I moved to the Montana Rockies in 1983 and have been in these parts since.
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MEM
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Spook
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I have not seen the top side of zero in several days. BURRRRRRRRR
dcarver
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Dang that's cold.
[SIZE=8pt]Guess I won't tell you about my 1 hour ride to work at 28F this morning..[/SIZE]
[SIZE=8pt]Guess I won't tell you about my 1 hour ride to work at 28F this morning..[/SIZE]
Spook
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It would be great if there just wernt so damn many Californians where you live. We tend to shoot them if they do not die of exposure
wfooshee
O, Woe is me!!
It's winter somewhere?
Oh, yeah. I had to put in the jacket liners on my ride to Pensacola this past saturday, got into the low 40s. Today it hit 80.
Sorry.
I have lived in cold places, though. Not Montana or Alberta cold, but snowy icy blizzardy school's out for 2 days cold. It was in the 1960s, though, so I don't remember it much.
Oh, yeah. I had to put in the jacket liners on my ride to Pensacola this past saturday, got into the low 40s. Today it hit 80.
Sorry.
I have lived in cold places, though. Not Montana or Alberta cold, but snowy icy blizzardy school's out for 2 days cold. It was in the 1960s, though, so I don't remember it much.
Spook, that's not a nice way to talk about our fellow 'Mericans. We do notice in Montana, though, that when it gets this cold, the southern migration begins in earnest - ducks, geese, eagles and ospreys, snowbirds...and Californians.
Spook
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They are fun to hunt but some of the ones that survive the first season can become quite wily and tend to try to take on local camouflage. The biggest problem is how hard thy are to clean. Most do not look that great mounted on the wall ether.
