What do you do when you've just bought a new *bike and you can't ride it?!!?
S__T.
There's some farkles I could put on it, but if winter persists, that will only make matters worse. I feel like following the geese south, really...
Its sitting out there in the unheated garage, all lonely....:- (
*(pearl white '11 with 4,800 miles). The big consolation is knowing that I'll be riding the crap out of it come April....

I feel your pain. Sitting here in my office in Lake George NY and staring at a dusting of snow. I hope to ride on Tuesday, as the forecast is for 52 degrees and cloudy. Maybe we will wind up having a winter like last year where I rode all winter in upstate N.Y.- a first.

Now is the time to perform maintenance and more farkeling.

International Motorcycle Show in NYC in January is also something to look forward to.

Quit job, grab passport and ride to South America?

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2005 Suzuki SV1000R
1985 Yamaha XT608N
2012 Suzuki DL650AL2, over 13,000 miles already!

It sounds like you need another toy to play with to keep your mind off the bike. Hmmmm...... perhaps a snowmobile would ease your restless mind. Afterall, what's another $8000?

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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow

Snow? I have new skis* that I'm more than ready to get on the snow. The snow in the west is running a bit late this year. This is neither a La Nina nor El Nino year, (La Nada), and these neutral climate pattern years are when the most extreme weather occurrences happen, at least in the West. I'm ready!

Oh, yeah, I'm riding next week with Motocaribe in the Dominican Republic, and where I live I ride twelve months. My preference is to ride when the temperature is above 40° and I don't ride out in the rain, but I'm ready to ride home in the rain.

*Head Icon TT800. Only one shop in the U.S. carried them, and they were sold out by the time I bought, so I got them from a shop in Germany via eBay.de. Rocker skis are horrible in anything except deep snow, wide skis belong on deep snow, not packed snow, and 12 to 13 meter sidecut rocks!
Head Ski

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2007 DL650A Whee! (SV cam transplant)

Manage the unavoidable.
Avoid the unmanageable.

you can ride in anything, its just your choice not too

I still have to get my studded tires mounted usually I have them on by thanksgiving

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07 Strom 1k (7x,xxx miles)
99 SV650 (135,006 miles)
82 XV920R
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A man without a gun is a subject
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Snow is that white stuff we see in the mountains, correct?

We don't have stellar winter weather like our southern counterparts, but at least the scenery is green.

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Just ride.

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Motorcycle cornering - Survival reactions and proper body positioning

I know about cold.
It was 56 this morning, so I waited till it got to just over 60 before my 100 mile ride today.
Winter is a bitch.

"Snow is that white stuff we see in the mountains, correct?"

Indeed, moving from Minneapolis to So. Oregon was the best decision I ever made.. Bitter cold winter from Halloween through Easter was just no fun anymore. Course, it's storm after storm coming in from the coast this weekend, so I won't be putting on many miles either.

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Medford, Or.

2007 DL1000 Black (crashed, totaled)
2008 DL650 (wife's sold)
DL650AL2 (Orange) it's Home.....
Exodus 20:17