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SpyderWolf
New member
Are you going to try to ride it in the snow? We have a few members on here who have done so.
COOLMACHINE
New member
Nice to have you on board.
Hello Yazz. Welcome aboard. I think you are gonna like this machine. Where did you come up with the screen name? Does it have anything to do with the band Yaz from the 80's? Hello to the hubby as well.
Hello Yazz. Welcome aboard. I think you are gonna like this machine. Where did you come up with the screen name? Does it have anything to do with the band Yaz from the 80's? Hello to the hubby as well.
Yazz
MOgang Member
Spyderwolf,
The snow didn't stick but its going to get into the 20's tonight.
We will be ryding Sunday in a toy run. Gotta do it for the kids...
Now that I'm thinking about it, would rather ryde in the snow on a tryke instead of a two-wheelie. Just need to get some electric underwear...
The snow didn't stick but its going to get into the 20's tonight.
We will be ryding Sunday in a toy run. Gotta do it for the kids...
Now that I'm thinking about it, would rather ryde in the snow on a tryke instead of a two-wheelie. Just need to get some electric underwear...
Yazz
MOgang Member
Hello Yazz. Welcome aboard. I think you are gonna like this machine. Where did you come up with the screen name? Does it have anything to do with the band Yaz from the 80's? Hello to the hubby as well.
Hey Cool Machine! My screen name is an old persona. I used to belly dance and Yazz was my stage name. Took much pondering to come up with the name and its a part of me now. No relation to the band or the birth control pill.
Hubby says Howdy back atcha.
SpyderWolf
New member
We have a toy ride near here this Sunday as well. It is in the 40's and raining right now. Supposed to rain all day tomorrow as well. I am hoping it will blow off for Sunday, but even if it doesn't I am no stranger to ryding in the rain.
Yazz
MOgang Member
:agree:Ya gotta do it for the kids. This toy run's motto is "Santa rides, rain or shine." Most times its raining. It thins the crowd out a bit, but its a bonding experience for those who show up.We have a toy ride near here this Sunday as well. It is in the 40's and raining right now. Supposed to rain all day tomorrow as well. I am hoping it will blow off for Sunday, but even if it doesn't I am no stranger to ryding in the rain.
Did an awesome fishtail at a toy run in the rain once. The :cus: in front of me downshifted without giving any signal he was slowing down. :gaah:
Think there was some good entertainment for those behind me.
This year I'll ryde at the back of the pack. Been told Spyee throws rocks and has an awesome roostertail.
SpyderWolf
New member
Oh yeah, the Spyder throws one heck of a rooster tail! It was so bad in Maggie Valley the guys behind me couldn't see anything at all and thought it was pouring down rain, fact is it was only a drizzle and they found that out at the next stop light. We will most likely bring up the rear on this one as well.
Yazz
MOgang Member
LOL... Ah, the privilege and responsibility of being a Spyder Ryder are mighty. :spyder2:
We were out ryding with a friend once with me in the lead. It was sprinkling. Stopped at a red light. Green light. Vroom vroom. Spydee doesn't move. Vroom Vroom. Spydee still won't budge. Hubby rides up beside me and says we are turning around and heading into dryer weather. He will take the lead, I get to be tail gunner. Looked behind me at our friend and he is drenched! Bless friend's heart for not saying peep about the incident.
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We were out ryding with a friend once with me in the lead. It was sprinkling. Stopped at a red light. Green light. Vroom vroom. Spydee doesn't move. Vroom Vroom. Spydee still won't budge. Hubby rides up beside me and says we are turning around and heading into dryer weather. He will take the lead, I get to be tail gunner. Looked behind me at our friend and he is drenched! Bless friend's heart for not saying peep about the incident.
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SpyderWolf
New member
:roflblack: That is a good friend, as all of these guys had no problem letting me know about it and then forcing me to be tail gunner for the rest of the trip.
SpyderWolf
New member
Ah yes, they had no reason to be gentlemen with me.
PCBeachBum
New member
Back in high school in the late 60s in CT, we had a bad snowstorm. My buddy's only transportation was a Susuki X6 Hustler. After parking my car, I was heading for the back door and looked over thinking someone built a snowman. (Oh Excuse me, a snowperson.)
Looking closer it wasn't a snowperson it was Steve. He was frozen to the bike. He couldn't talk and could barely blink. I started to carefully pry his fingers off the grips. His knees and ankles were frozen and I was going to pull him off the back, when my home room teacher opened the window. I told him he was frozen to the bike. He came out and helped me lift him off. We got him inside and leaned him up against a radiator to thaw out. After about 10 minutes he said boy! Am I glad you came along. I told him next time, give me a call and I'll pick you up. He said than I gotta walk to work and than home. Besides it was a crazy ride in 4" of snow and the looks I got were priceless. I told him the look you gave me was priceless. We still talk today and still laugh about snowy, cold, frozen to the bike, day in the school parking lot. He now rides an old BMW R 60 but, not in snowstorms.
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NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
:roflblack: Wow, did that bring back memories! I rode in the winter during the sixties until an ice storm followed by snow and 14 degree temperatures turned my two mile ride home from school into a gymnastic hour long ordeal. Your story hit a family note. When he was in flight training in OK during WWII, my uncle decided to ride his Indian home to Michigan. Coming out of Missouri into Illinois he started to hit wet snow, increasing cold, and eventually ice. He had on his flight suit, so he was still able to forge ahead. At every stop he had to have someone break his hands free from the bars. When he got home, he looked like a snowman, and was frozen hard to the bike, doing the last 50 miles in second gear because he couldn't get his hand off the bars to the tank shifter. To add insult to injury, the family made him wait, frozen to the bike, while they went and grabbed the box camera to snap some pictures. :thumbup:Back in high school in the late 60s in CT, we had a bad snowstorm. My buddy's only transportation was a Susuki X6 Hustler. After parking my car, I was heading for the back door and looked over thinking someone built a snowman. (Oh Excuse me, a snowperson.)
PCBeachBum
New member
:roflblack: The next time I talk to Steve just before Christmas, I'll have to tell him your story about riding in the snow an ice storm. He rode in all kinds of weather but that day in the parking lot, he looked like he had all new fairing, that was from the snow and wind hitting him and the bike and sticking. Remembering that day the snow was coming down hard and visability wasn't that good. That day they closed school at noon and seeing Steve just before going outside, he wasn't looking forward to the ride to work, but there he could ride it inside, since he worked at a full service Exxon gas station
I had a '48 BSA, that I put away and my oldest brother sold me his '61 Corvair Monza for a $100.00. I had a lot of fun with that in the snow and ice.:thumbup:
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