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quote:Originally posted by HOS
How many of you remember clearing the snow off your bike ? up to 4" of it at 6 o clock at night after work... in the dark. Clearing the ice from around the control switches, headlamp and clocks ?
So you could enjoy the ride 1 1/2 hour ride home in deep snow, sub zero temperatures and the dark.
Keeping your wheels in the ruts the car tyres had made in the snow and leaving your feet as close to the ground as possible incase the bike slid as they did quiet often.
When you had to ride with your visor up all the way with the amount of condensation from your breath ? After 20 minutes of this your face muscles froze.
Clearing the falling snow from around the air vents in your petrol cap every few seconds cos causes a vacuum inside the tank and cuts off the gas to the carbs?
and then at the end of your daily journey to work and same going home.....
Trying to find your ciggies and lighter in your jacket pockets when you have no feelings at all in your hands?
Its difficult when you can`t actually feel anything in your pockets cos you do`nt actually know which pocket they`re in ? Can take a very long time finding your smokes !!!
Burning your leather gloves trying to warm your hands on the cylinder head/barrels.
When you get off the bike and your body is locked in the same position when your standing ? Trying to walk while in a biker crouch is hilarious for all your work colleagues to watch.
Trying to put your heavy 1970s bike on its centre stand while your stood on sheet ice and can`t even stand up yourself?
When you arrive at your destination and a 1/2" thick sheet of ice falls off your front like an upper body cast?
When you get into the warm workplace and realise as your shivering, that you badly need a piss, struggling to get your leathers off with numb fingers, getting more and more desperate for a piss, then when you`ve got all your gear off, your so fuckin cold you cant` find your pecker !!! Its hibernated with the cold !!:D
When you stop and get of your bike and your fingers feel like they been hit hard with a hammer ! Gone through the numb phase, just into the pain phase.
A long time ago before bikers became big Jessies !
And will the kids today believe us ? :D;)[:o)]
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I remember all that, and add trying to work on your bike out in the open because you have no garage, work for 5 mins until your fingers freeze, back in the house for 15 mins to thaw out, back out again in the sleet, takes about 5 hours to change a set of brake pads.