Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!pesnta!wjvax!ron 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 Article-I.D.: wjvax.292 Posted: Thu Dec 27 15:58:48 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 05:31:09 EST References: <785@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif. Lines: 25 **** It bugs me some how to hear guys from the bay area posting on how to survive winter on a bike. ..........rick **** 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. -- Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.) {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix}!wjvax!ron