Throughout any time of the riding year the coldest month of all is January. Most of my morning commute hovers around freezing temperatures. Even if you gear up you’ll start to feel the cold bite an hour into the ride. Once in a great while it’s nice to take the cage to work.
I made it! I started riding my motorcycle to work (mostly the Wing) every day. It began on Dec. 26th 2006 and ended Jan. 8, 2008. I rode the bikes completely through the 2007 year! I did decided to call it done when Lorraine needed a ride to work. She’s going through leg rehab. At times it was tough but what a great experience and with many stories to tell.
It was THE WORSE weather conditions since I started my riding streak. A major storm hit Northern California and I was determined to not take the car and ride it out. I have to say I used a lot of my past riding experience in that short 1.5 hour trip to work. I also gained some 10 fold.
A lot of accidents on the freeways as well as surface streets. Cagers were crunching it everywhere. I had to keep a close eye around me at all times. I’m not sure I would purposely ride a storm again in the future after experiencing this one.
By the way I should mentioned I completed my streak of 1 year riding to work on a motorcycle. I still haven’t driven the cage to work. I’m thinking of a new goal of 2 years. Well see…
The month of December has been cold and wet. It’s probably a good indicator what next month weather will be like. Last year January was the toughest month.
I’m almost at my goal of riding one year straight to work. I’ve only had a few weeks of the year that was rough whether it was hot, cold, foggy etc. Just a little over a month to go!
Bugs getting waiting for J-Lo time! We had dinner at the Grill, a restaurant located in the HP Pavilion complex. It was real nice since you ate and relaxed and different have to wait in line.
As expected on Labor Day the only carwash places that are open are the ones you sit in. I took Lorraine’s car to get washed earlier this morning. It took close to an hour to get through the lines.
Took off for the annual SLO (San Louis Obispo) run. We ended up getting stuck for a long time due to one lane traffic flow. The traffic was backed up so far you couldn’t see the front of the line!
It was another wet and cold ride this morning. I’ve been riding to work for over 4 months now. I’ve ridden in all conditions from sub-freezing 22 degrees to the stormy wet rainy weeks. So far, of all the winter conditions fog is the one I least like to ride in. Something about riding down the freeway only being able to see a few car lengths ahead and a fogged up helmet.
It will be interesting to see how the summer brings its climate offerings.
Totally chilled out today, did nothing. How weird is that.