"Agreement is not a requirement for Respect" CDR Michael Smith USN (Ret) 2017
"The book is wrong, this whole Conclusion is Fallacious" River Tam
"Yea I do dance awkwardly, and I am having more fun than you" Taylor Swift
2008 GL1800 IIIA "TH3DOG"
1984 GL1200 Standard
1975/6/7/8/9 Arthur Fulmer Dressed Road bike
1975 Naked Noisy and Nasty in town bike
Psst. oh and by the way CHANGE YOUR BELTS!!!!
I don't miss zero degrees.
I don't miss shoveling a 150 foot driveway (even with a snow thrower).
I don't miss the sun not coming out for months at a time.
I don't miss the chuckholes.
On the other hand...
Hurricanes truly suck.
The snow-birds are down and the traffic is awful.
You need a reservation for Walmart.
2006 GL1800 (Brutus Maximus)
1978 GL1000 (White Trash - 2012 BOTY
(If you want to discuss the Trashmobile, Webers, Rearsets, Clubmans, or other stuff then send me a PM.) "Getting old ain't for sissies" - Phyllis Diller "So how much you gonna spend to win that $5 trophy?" - Cyborg
I have lived both places, and here is worse then there. In my opinion. Of course I lived on the west coast, on a boat, and could escape to the Gulf, or the Keys when ever I wanted an escape. Best time was sailing in the Gulf alone. But that's just me.
1978 custom GL1000
1977 custom with 1200 engine
1985 gl1200
yea Mom and Dad transitioned to their Florida place last week and I think 2 of my Sisters and half of their Families joined them. So ! think the population of Florida doubled! Today is Dad's 92nd Birthday so there is some gathering going on.
"Agreement is not a requirement for Respect" CDR Michael Smith USN (Ret) 2017
"The book is wrong, this whole Conclusion is Fallacious" River Tam
"Yea I do dance awkwardly, and I am having more fun than you" Taylor Swift
2008 GL1800 IIIA "TH3DOG"
1984 GL1200 Standard
1975/6/7/8/9 Arthur Fulmer Dressed Road bike
1975 Naked Noisy and Nasty in town bike
Psst. oh and by the way CHANGE YOUR BELTS!!!!
I don't mind the cold as, retired, I can adjust time spent out in it. Never really had a bad time working in any weather, cept high wind. No way to fight high wind and aircraft, bad combo.
82 GL1100 Interstate-Oldewing October 23 BOTM
06 GL1800 Road bike, as in Rode alot...
Sometimes I wrestle with my inner demons.........
Other times we just hug.......
Team 898
Team LTD 993
Team 76 R2B3
And always remember: beer has some food value--but food has NO beer value...
I was an avid snow skier. I played hockey until I was 63. I liked the outdoors.
January 5, 1979 1am to 3 am. -6°F with 20 to 30mph winds. I was on top of a 100' aerial ladder at a 5 alarm fire in a high rise apartment building in mid-town Detroit squirting water around. The truck had 4 inches of ice on every surface. So did I.
When we finally took the ladder down it wouldn't retract and so we had to drive back to the firehouse with it sticking out the back by about 60 feet. It took two hours using hot water to free it up so it could be laid back where it belonged.
Cold. It was really, really, freakin' cold.
2006 GL1800 (Brutus Maximus)
1978 GL1000 (White Trash - 2012 BOTY
(If you want to discuss the Trashmobile, Webers, Rearsets, Clubmans, or other stuff then send me a PM.) "Getting old ain't for sissies" - Phyllis Diller "So how much you gonna spend to win that $5 trophy?" - Cyborg
Been seriously cold a few times in my life. A couple that stick out are deicing Airplanes in Maine during the winter and breaking the ice in "Peoples Pond" in the POW part of Survival school. Had to break out the ice so we could do the push ups in the water. Then spent the rest of the night huddled up under the trees in soaking wet clothing. We were in the evasion part of the course and I had no idea what the temps were. Obviously well below freezing. That was the last week in October of 79 in Rangeley Maine.
"Agreement is not a requirement for Respect" CDR Michael Smith USN (Ret) 2017
"The book is wrong, this whole Conclusion is Fallacious" River Tam
"Yea I do dance awkwardly, and I am having more fun than you" Taylor Swift
2008 GL1800 IIIA "TH3DOG"
1984 GL1200 Standard
1975/6/7/8/9 Arthur Fulmer Dressed Road bike
1975 Naked Noisy and Nasty in town bike
Psst. oh and by the way CHANGE YOUR BELTS!!!!
I spent 14 months in Fairbanks and saw some real winter. Still have a newspaper clipping that shows the high for the day at minus 35 degrees. We had a field exercise where we spent a week in tents etc. No desire to go back there during winter.
Al
2003 Goldwing Daily Rider
1975 Goldwing 'Max'
1984 Goldwing New Bagger Project
1976 Goldwing 'Grocery Getter' Sold
1985 Goldwing Interstate 'NCC-1985' sold
1981 Silverwing Sold
1982 Goldeing Project Sold
1981 Goldwing Parted Out
1983 Goldwing Project Sold
1973 CB500F Long Gone
1966 CL77 First Street Bike http://www.ngwclub.com/gallery3/index.p ... ans/ritalz