With you unfortunate Europeans having a "riding season" it was very apt that, when reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula" I came acorss the following passage:
Quote from: Bram Stoker"Though we were in shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of the trees crashed together as we swept along. It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall, so that soon we and all around us were covered with a white blanket. We knew 'twas time to garage the GSX for a few months hence...."
No, really, that's what it says !
Well, most of it is. ;)
Dracula was written 8n the village I lived in for 17 years and then we moved away 4 miles for the next 12 years.
Right There on the coast where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula never really had bad winters I only missed 5 days work due to weather in almost 30 years .
But you go inland a few miles to like where
@shanered6 lives it's a different story it can get quiet bad a few miles from the sea.
The pub in crudenbay has some hand written pages from the original drafts of Dracula.
:cheers:
Well done Mick!
Yes... We North Europeans unfortunately have a "riding season".
Yesterday we had 0.5-0.6 meters of snow and -25°C. I hate winter.
Is this a good time to point out I moved to Brisbane 15 years ago and haven't even seen a frost since?
40 years in the UK, the Summers had some beautiful days, but not enough and you wouldn't want to bank on booking one in advance!
We just went from 33.5 to 11.5 degrees in a couple of hours! Now got a chill factor of (feels like) 8!! mad summer weather at the moment.
Ye here in the Higlands of Scotland we have differant weather even to the rest of the UK and when you think that Aberdeen is nearly 200 miles further north than Moscow you can see why !
Heard on the news you in Scotland got -12c somewhere......toasty !!
We got a little bit yesterday, but it will get better as we won't be in Europe much longer.
Not the warmest day in Dundee but lovely :cheers:
Quote from: Kiwifruit on Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 06:54 PM
Heard on the news you in Scotland got -12c somewhere......toasty !!
Ye its bloody cold at the minute been hard frost for a couple of weeks now .
@seth - cracker day there, might be a bit nippy, but it looks superb.
@shanered6 - hoar frost? What is that last pic of? unopened frozen thistle head?
It was lovely behind glass in the sun but very cold outside.
Frost in the shadows all day.
The funny thing is
@shanered6 is only about 100 miles from here that's local in Scotland :cheers:
Quote from: KiwiCol on Thursday, 24 January 2019, 02:08 AM
@seth - cracker day there, might be a bit nippy, but it looks superb.
@shanered6 - hoar frost? What is that last pic of? unopened frozen thistle head?
:rofl2: no a fence post .
Ok, fair enough. Must be just the angle of the pic then.
Some new snow and -17°C today...
Great pic, lovely to look at, but I wouldn't want to live in it. what ya get used to I suppose.
South Wales...UK
Cold damp, cloudy and generally feckin' miserable...Roll on Spring and Summer!!!!!
No using the boat anytime soon either T24. Looks like it's parked up for the winter as well. Summer shared between boats n bikes? sounds familiar . . .
I dont think T24 needs a boat to go fishing in winter Col. Just a post hole borer :happy1:
My Mate is on a mine site in Mongolia.
He decided on his day off to go fishing. He likes fishing.
When they found somewhere that wasn't frozen over he had a go.
His line froze, his reel froze then his beer froze.
:thumbs_down:
39c at my house today. Not much chance of snow but worse is our lack of rain. Bushfire threat is huge.
It was only in the low to mid 30's at work, but we had hundreds of cars to move, all sat in the sun all day. Everyone we jumped in was like an oven! The aircon only started to kick in by the time we were parking them up and jumping into another red hot car! After an hour I was soaked in sweat on off for a cold drink. Nice cars, OK job, but the heat makes it hard.
compared to old days, amazed how many modern cars dpnt overheat. back in 80s , on a hot day as is now, every holden overheat, nissans blew head gaskets, most european cars suffered. air cooled vw were just hopeless. all the yank v8 were hopeless. better cooling, better coolant. amazing difference. most cars run around 100c these days, high pressure caps. v6 commodores run at 110. as a comparison, my 14 with a hard run in these nearly 40 temps, rarely gets to 90c. oil cooled suzuki sure is a winner in that department. diavel last week in same air temp was running at 107, has a readout on gauges. you should feel the heat it pumps out at lights, incredible, legs fry.
It has been between 35-41 in North west Sydney for about 3 weeks straight and it is draining the life out of me 😩😓 it's only dropping to a min of 23-25 through the night.
That snow does look beautiful but living in it would drive me nuts, so I better just stop moaning & suck it up :grin:
Sweaty, im sure sick of 26 nights. Same tonight.
I was sick of working in Oz summers that's why I give it away last summer, wearing PPE in 30 plus heat. I'm not minding the winter over here in the Emerald Isle. Started this little job today didn't even work up a sweat about 11 degrees C.
I get the PPE comment Irish, We have roadworks going on down the road and the traffic control or lollipop people are in workboots long pants long sleeves and a hardhat. No shade.......but thems the ruies.
Common sense not required.
Thursday both lots of traffic met in the middle of the road works.
Heatstroke maybe ??
interesting to see the difference in the climates of the two hemispheres.
Yeah, my mate has 50 Traffic Control Utes and about 100 staff.
Standing in the shade is a big No-no.
It's seen as not being clearly visible even on the hottest day.
When I was working in the BP Refinery it was boots, fireproof long trousers, fireproof long sleeve shirts, wide brimmed hard hats, safety glasses and I had to carry gloves, this was in any weather.
In my current job I have to wear a long sleeve shirt and a wide brimmed hat all day, I still wear long trousers even though they aren't compulsory and shorts are OK, even over the last few weeks of heat.
They are a bit fussy about wearing the right safety clothes here and it does get inforced. One of my team wore footy shorts not work shorts, and I was seen without a hat on and we both got reprimanded for it ! Baseball caps are banned, only wide brimmed hats.
Big thing here is no belts, watches or rings.
No one gets away with that for long.
Kind of jealous of the people with the warm weather actually. Holland is not really winter, bit of snow, bit of frost every now and then. Biggest problem is that when they think it`s going to freeze they start throwing salt on the roads. Imagine what it does to your bike? Winter riding is no go for me!
Ran a 31:22 this morning.
I had a big week at work and it's a bit warm here! I wasn't even close to the sub 30 minute time I'm after.
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Keep trying, eventually you will succeed although it isn`t strange that you run slower when it`s warm.