By heck it's grim down Souf

Not being one for foreign wanderings I can honestly say I have never before
ridden a bike in heat like that today.

I ended up getting on the M1 at about 4:30 and even with my jacket undone[0]
and doing a ton it was still like there was a giant hairdryer in front of
me[1].

I was glad to be once again back up North, although the heat wave has hit
Northumberland as well, to the extent that there was only 3" of snow today!

Anyway, the real point of this post was to thank Adie and Frag for
entertaining me last night. Everybody *has* to go to Frag's house and see
his new telly ... actually, don't bother - you can probably see it from
where you are.

Special thanks to Adie for putting me up last night. I was surprised to
wake up at 5:30 to find her pussy in front of me[2], but she polished my
helmet this morning[3], so I can't complain.

Where were the rest of you Milton Keynes cunts? AFAIR none of you owe me
any money, so I'll have to assume it was personal.

[0] I did consider riding in shorts and a t-shirt, but decided I couldn't
because I was travelling so far. On the journey I did try to work out why
my brain thinks it is more risky to do a ton up the motorway in shorts than
it is to do a ton on local roads in shorts, but I didn't come up with an
answer.

[1] "As opposed to a giant hairdryer under you". Yes, ha ha, very funny
Champ/Cane/Bear/Darsy/Eddie/Whoever

[2] (C) Lloyd & Croft 1973

[3] (C) Viz Magazine 1986

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I went out for a ride round this evening while my thermometer was still
showing about 30' and above 80 or 90 it was pleasantly cool , especially on
tree lined country roads.
Every time I slowed for lights or junctions though I started to cook very
rapidly.

I'm sure there is a lesson in there somewhere

 

I rode across Cyprus once in August. I couldn't wait to chop the hire
bike in for an air-conditioned car.


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ditto. Jeans and a T shirt round the ring road made it feel like 20
degrees.

 

I had an interesting experience coming home today. Filtered up to the
line at a set of lights, with a small patch of what looked like water
on the road a bit back. Couldn't smell anything diesel-y, so thought
nothing of it, and concentrated on the nice collection of cones that
had been helpfully left in the middle of the crossroads.

Set off with minimal gusto, only to find myself going nowhere and the
back of the bike moving right. The bike set off normally when I tried a
second time. I'm going to put it down to it being a kawasaki and me
obviously not being enough of a twat, so it got bored and did it's own
burnout.

 

ginge wrote

Oddly enough I went out for a 10 minute ride today in just me jeans and
no T shirt. Not cos I was particularly hot as I am quit happy with this
heat but because it was the appropriate thing to do at the time
considering all I was doing was moving the donor bike into the back
garden.

 

It was a tad bloody hot in the South of France the week before last.
Must have been 45 deg C. So hot you had to keep your visor down. Once we
got to the hotel which was at 600 meters all was fine.

 

It takes 10 minutes for you to ride to your back garden?

How big's your "estate"?

Alternatively: exactly how slow were you riding?

 

Melted tar? There seems to be a lot of it about.

 

Rode across the Spanish interior in August once, that was a tad warm.
Stood under a lawn sprinkler till the leathers were saturated. They
were bone dry three hours later.

 

Jeans? Jeans? When it's 30 degrees outside. Are you mad? Shorts man,
Shorts. And Sandals

 

South? South? Milton Keynes is in the fucking midlands.

 

I was South of Watford Gap services ... that's the official demarkation
line, isn't it?

 

No. The river Trent is.


Dave

 

North of Watford Gap is The North.

 

It was probably coolant from someone's engine that was far
too hot sitting at the lights and started to vent out of a breather
somewhere.

Coolant is very, very slippery stuff, much like diesel, and that's
why it is banned from race bikes so it is kept away from tracks.

 

And?
Your point being?

Dave

 

Shreddies? As in the things you put milk on at breakfast?

 

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