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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: staying warm in cold weather
Message-ID: <292@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 15:58:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 27 15:58:48 1984
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Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif.
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It bugs me some how to hear guys from the bay area posting on how to survive
winter on a bike.

..........rick
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I probably asked for this.  Know ye that I have not spent all my life
in the Bay area!  I drove my bike all through high school in all kinds
of weather in northern california.  My experiance comes from that, and
living six years in Phoenix (Winter temperatures: 70 degrees in the daytime,
below freezing at night.  Desert, you know.) making commutes back home every
Thanksgiving and Christmas, (following the snowplow over the grapevine)
going east and/or north on vacation during the wrong time of year, and in
general taking on more weather than I could handle.  I was almost stranded
at Crater Lake, Oregon once when chains were required.  I've driven through
freezing rain, hail, you name it.  Besides, how much experiance could someone
from Illinois or North Dakoda have if they cover the bike and switch to
the 4WD at the first frost?  I think the telling factor is not where you
happen to live, but how many miles of what kind of weather the *bike*
has seen.
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	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
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