You might get your chance Monday. Rain on Sunday will wash away the salt for the warm Monday. But lots of time for forecast to change by then. Looking good now.
Who's still riding? (Fall & Winter 2024 Edition)
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Unfortunately I'm stuck working next Monday. Second most senior guy in the building and somehow all the junior guys arranged all their single vacation days and personal days to take this Monday and Friday off, as well as the few days next week, so instead of getting the full 2 weeks off uninterrupted as I'd planned, I'm stuck working a bunch of them.
Oh well. Next year apparently I need to do the same for the Monday and Tuesday.
Oh well. Next year apparently I need to do the same for the Monday and Tuesday.
Is this your first rodeo?
Lol, nope, my 23rd rodeo at this company, but if you look up “Murphys Law” in the dictionary there’s a picture of me as part of the entry.
I started to not really have to worry about this stuff about five years ago when I reached virtually the top of the seniority list and had all of these skeleton-crew days off voluntarily, however a bit of a weird sequence of events and some changes within the company has resulted in this happening both last year and this year where guys are being very creative with their day off allotments to get out of being voluntold they were working.
So next year I will be sure to save a couple of personal days to book for the days either side of Chrismas, and of course after doing that (and not having used them for Motorcycle days in the summer instead as I often do), I fully expect that things will go back to the way they used to operate and those days will end up being wasted as I wouldn’t have needed to take them to get the days off to begin with, but again, Murphy’s Law lol
Sure would be nice to see some sun. This neverending stretch of crappy cloudy days is starting to become a drag.
Dang man you spooked him. Sun was blazing here 10 minutes ago. Hope to get out today or tomorrow.
(Also hope to wheel the Wing outside and fire it up for the first time. No mufflers this should be fun...)
I was hoping to get out again to get a December ride in as well, but this forecast seems to strongly suggest that's not going to happen.
What would constitue a ride in December? Is there a min kms you must ride to consider it a ride.
You could "go around the block" .
sburns
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I was tempted to go out yesterday as well. There was a sliver of sun for about 1 hour, but I missed it. Checked outside again and it was so blah, said forget it. Back to hibernating...
Meh, I'm beyond the point of needing to do something like that "just because". Besides, our street is still covered in a bunch of rock salt - the salters and plows always go really slow down our street because it's short, so the salt always gets put on thick.
Looks like the rain will be stopping around 1pm in the west end - I'm going riding tomorrow!
I got home from Calgary this morning around 4:30am (FLight was delayed) and didn't get to sleep until 5:30am. I intended to get up and ride in the morning but slept in late I managed to get out for a little ride this aft, barely around the block because radar was showing snow streamers around so I didn't go far from home and only got in about 120 km.
At least I ended my riding season at the end of the year.
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At least I ended my riding season at the end of the year.
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I woke up late, saw that the sun was out, got all excited and thought I would be able to get out after all, but after taking care of a few things that needed to be done beforehand, it had clouded over and got a bit crappy sadly and my motivation and excitement was gone.
Coles notes version: **** got in the way.
Coles notes version: **** got in the way.
It's no longer fun commuting to work now and the next two weeks forecast has a few double digit negative days.
I guess I'm done for the season. See y'all in March
Brave of you for having been out at all in the last few weeks, it has not been nice fairly consistently.
The forecast is for Ontario to fall into a real deep freeze next week, down into the -20 region overnights.
