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Spyder + Winter Weather = Big Smile

PistonBlown

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Slicing round the traffic. Back wheel spinning as it crosses the wet white lines on an overtake, then again as the traffic light drag race starts. Quick turn of the head to shake the rain from the visor, then open it up leaving the tin boxes behind. Darkness falls early and you have the roads to yourself. Cold crisp mornings where the dawn turns the ground hugging mist to a kaleidoscope of colour. Who would want to be just a fair weather rider?

PS for confused northern hemisphere folk - It's mid-winter in New Zealand at the moment:-)
 
Jack Frost

We've had a few frosty mornings with lovely clear sunny days, that's when I like to get out, I'm not one for the wet.
 
Yep they are the best winters days with the clear blue skies against the snow covered southern alps and the air so clear you can see forever. But I've been really surprised recently just how much fun there is to be had with the Spyder in the rain, fine tuning the point of grip and power.
 
Question from the U.S. Northeast:
How much cold-weather (frost, snow, ice...) do you get during your Winters? :dontknow:
 
As long as the roads are dry, I'll ride, no matter the temperature. Last January, it was 5 degrees (F) when I left the house to ride 80 miles for a laser alignment from Lamont and Harvey Clark . . . I had a couple layers under my FirstGear Thermo Suit . . . and discovered I'd been sweating, the whole trip, when I got there! I shed the extra layers for the ride home!

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Would if I could..!!

but can't change the weather so we are the fair weather ryders here in sunny San diego...can catch a cool ryde on the mountain passes...:2thumbs:
 
PistonBlown said:
Slicing round the traffic. Back wheel spinning as it crosses the wet white lines on an overtake, then again as the traffic light drag race starts. Quick turn of the head to shake the rain from the visor, then open it up leaving the tin boxes behind. Darkness falls early and you have the roads to yourself. Cold crisp mornings where the dawn turns the ground hugging mist to a kaleidoscope of colour. Who would want to be just a fair weather rider?

PS for confused northern hemisphere folk - It's mid-winter in New Zealand at the moment:-)
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How poetic! Thanks.
 
Just watch out for black ice. Nanny does not do very well there.

Enjoy your rydes though. I also ryde to the bitter end, but when the ice comes to my road, :ani29: gets parked.
 
Bob Denman said:
Question from the U.S. Northeast:
How much cold-weather (frost, snow, ice...) do you get during your Winters? :dontknow:
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Hi Bob, It all depends where you live. The far north of the North Island is tropical so doesn't see any snow or frost, you'll only see a frost from Auckland southwards. Where I live in Waiuku on the wild west coast you may see 10 mild frosts during the winter, but they will have disappeared soon after the sun rises. We did have a few minutes of snow a few years ago.
Further south on the North island there are some snow fields just below Taupo.
You really have to be living on the South island amongst the southern alps to really experience snow in New Zealand.
 
Bob Denman said:
Question from the U.S. Northeast:
How much cold-weather (frost, snow, ice...) do you get during your Winters? :dontknow:
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I live 50km (30 miles) north of Christchurch about a 5 minutes ride from the coast. Here we get 2 to 3 days of snow a year, get a lot of cold nights and frosty mornings but nothing extreme. As you head inland towards the southern alps that changes with colder nights/days and more snow. The mountains are an hours ride/drive from here so if I want to go and play in the snow with my daughter its not that far:-) Tend to use my old Datsun UTE (pickup) for those trips. Further south, particularly inland, snow is a regular part of the winter. We get the cold southerly's from the south pole, the lazy wind that goes straight through you, but we don't get the snow with it as that falls further south.

akspyderman: The weather that brings the rain/snow isn't the same as the cold weather, so when it's particularly cold it tends to also be dry. We do get black-ice but the roads have a rougher surface than most countries I've traveled in which also helps. On the mountain roads it's a different story so I avoid those in winter.

Hayfield: Yep I've got the gear so the cold is not a problem:-)

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Chupaca: I worked in Santa Ana once and I've got to say I just don't know how you can stand the weather as there's nothing to moan about:-) Every day for two months I walked from the hotel I was staying in to the office I was working in and the weather was exactly the same every day. Sunny, warm, a little patchy high cloud.
 
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