First ride of the season!!!!

Finally. Winter let go of it's death grip on Vermont.

Did a quick shakedown run of 10 miles yesterday to make sure everything was 100%. The VFR passed the test without a hiccup.

Bit the bullet this morning and mounted my steed despite the 28 degree temperature. I had bundled up (forgot the neck warmer, though) and pushed on into the brilliant cold morning. Gave myself 45 minutes to get to work, about 15 more than I needed normally.

DAMN! It was cold!!! I actually was grateful for traffic stops! First time that's ever happened!

Anyways, I avoided the highway (but managed to hit 115 on a back road :wink: ).

It had me thinking...

...How do I manage to survive the winter without a motorcycle ride???

 

Neck Warmer.... A must for us Northeast riders NH/VT/ME and Upstate NY...

3 years ago my wife dragged me kicking and screaming to a craft fair... Suddenly there was this cute as a button little old lady who was making kneck warmers for motorcyclists.... 5 bucks each... I bought a dark green one, navy blue, and Red...

Sadly, I found out the following year when I went to buy a bunch for my motorcycle friends as X-mas Gifts she passed away and the woman who makes them now does not make them as strechy and they are too tight...

I'm thinking about taking up sewing... :LOL:

 

there's nothing like the excitement of the first ride of the season. i was lucky enogh winter broke here a couple weeks ago so i've been out a couple times, i agree with the winter comment, i dreaded the day i had to put away for winter last year. i rode ti until the snow came, so i know how u felt in the cold.

 

Nothing like the first good ride of the season to get the Cob webs off thy back, Mine was a few weeks ago, but this last Saturday was a real kick in the butt, saw 78 degrees 200 miles + day Woo Hoo I wore to many cloths, Now only to have snow in the forecast this week, Sheesh.