Weather where you are?

Around 0C in Bonn, so no motorcycling. Went flying instead.
Rewarded by brilliant sunshine further south.
The Piper has a seriously good heater, fries my socks.  But it smells of oil....the rate of climb was really good, though, due to cold, dense air.
In the workshop, the Atlas OR600 is waiting for me to remove the carb, and fix the dodgy electrics.
I have been charging batteries in rotation, and ordered another LiPo battery for the Jotas to share.
Roll on April...
 
I don't start taking cold weather seriously until it get down around minus 30 Celsius. I am taking the present weather here in Calgary very seriously, bloody minus 40 Celsius can kill you if you do not dress appropriately, keep a full tank of fuel in a well maintained vehicle, and stay prepared. Still packing for our upcoming house move, present weather is making dealing with anything outside a serious pain in the behind......... :o ::) Local ski resorts have the lifts closed, too cold to risk people dying on the ski hills, bloody hell. :( :(

on a different note, I had to fire up the 72 Triumph Spitfire convertible that was frozen into a snow drift in the driveway as it was in the way of my getting my SUV and trailer close enough to the house to load some really heavy things, took a little persuasion (ether spray into the dual carbs) but the old Spitfire fired up. After it warmed up I took it for a slide around the neighbourhood, doing "donuts" in the cul de sac, I suspect it was the only Triumph Spitfire running in minus 30 Celsius anywhere in the world today :D :D

Paul LeClair
 
drikko said:
Did you have the top down?
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At that temperature I reckon the vinyl would have cracked if he'd have folded it down.

Reminds me of a bloke I met on an expedition to Antarctica who made a windsurfer to use on the ice. It was a like a big skateboard with ice skates instead of wheels, and it used a normal windsurfer type sail. First time he took it out for a sail it was probably -30C or thereabouts. The sail filled with wind and he took off like a rocket across the ice. It was all good until he tacked. As he flipped the sail around, the cloth had to bend the other way, and the clear plastic window in the sail shattered like glass.
 
Dellortoman said:
At that temperature I reckon the vinyl would have cracked if he'd have folded it down.

Reminds me of a bloke I met on an expedition to Antarctica who made a windsurfer to use on the ice. It was a like a big skateboard with ice skates instead of wheels, and it used a normal windsurfer type sail. First time he took it out for a sail it was probably -30C or thereabouts. The sail filled with wind and he took off like a rocket across the ice. It was all good until he tacked. As he flipped the sail around, the cloth had to bend the other way, and the clear plastic window in the sail shattered like glass.
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yeah, at minus 30 Celsius and below things get weird, materials properties change, things can get really brittle. In the case of the Spitfire, however, I could not have put the top down as it the car is presently fitted with a factory original hardtop, with a glass rear window and glass side vent windows. Amazing how much heat can be generated by the brand new puny little heater core in the firewall, the car has remained in regular use down to about minus 15 Celsius while the roads were still dry, only got parked when we got heavy snow.

on a positive note, minus 28 c at the moment, but looking at local forecasts, predictions for our home moving days January 2 and 3, 2018 are supposed to see temps rocket up to around 0 or so, will be like a heat wave, I will likely be wearing my shorts........

Paul LeClair
 
too cold to let the Penguins outside at the Calgary Zoo. Hilarious. Only minus 25 C at the time. Much colder to day.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3938393/its-so-cold-in-calgary-its-too-chilly-for-penguins-at-the-calgary-zoo/
 
If you have seen footage of Emperor Penguins on the  Antarctica Peninsular with the male sitting on its egg to me that sounds a bit odd. It looks way colder than -25 in the films.Stupid me, It helps if you read Pauls link, not emperor Penguins.
 
Gotta be cold on the east coast US at the moment. Thresher sharks washing up on the beach frozen solid in Maine, turtles getting hypothermia in Galveston.

Here in west Oz it is hot, hot, stinking hot.
 
Placed a 100W lite Bulb against the Oil pan of my Jeep with a 10 Hr trickle charge on the Battery plus a cup of Methyal Hydrate in the tank  and she fired right up  -  FUCK  the Block heater - Old School at - 25C.

Gotta love the old Bosch Lamba system as long as the Fuel Pumps and Fuel lines don't rot out or your head gasket isn't blown ;o)
 
The first time I went to the Aussie ski fields was for work, 10 day rush to finish Kerry Packer's lodge in the Perisher Centre, he owned the rights to the whole resort at the time. I drove down from Sydney and stopped at Jindy and asked if I needed antifreeze up there. The bloke said no but I bet he didnt know I was sleeping up there for a week. So it snowed the first night and 6 out of the 10 carpenters cars had there blocks freeze and blew out welsh plugs. Pure luck not mine. It got to -7c that night. For me a record at the time, 30 years of sking later still cold but not a record
 
Vince: You a Skiier so was I:

Took all Ontario Salom and a descent in GS but I flew off the Mountains in Down Hill because l was 5'II" and only weighed 140lbs.

Was a Camera man with a 16mm Bolex strapped to me drop from Copters chasing 18 year olds when I was 22 for the Canadian National Ski Team outta Baniff back in 72.

Nice to meet a fellow Skier on this forum because we know the only 3 or 4 ones, including you, on top of a mountain with ski's, whom you probably never met from all over the world, are only their there for one reason and that is to control your fall off the mountain and survive.

Wish I was that young and daring again but been there and did it ;o)

Falling off Mountains on Skis was my primary sport, then Berganzie's and Golf  - My handi-cap was "0" and I destroyed most course records.

My NITCH Ski Combo was Solomon SX Equipe Boots, Castle 205/210 or 215's CMP Comp II Pros ski's and the Marker Rotor Mat harness with Scott Poles. Lang boots, Look Harness and Head Ski's were suicide for me.

I really enjoyed the Rossongol 185 Equipe Ski on Bunny slopes when practicing.
 
Just for fun for me, did a trip to The USA and skied lots of Cal and Utah. So much better than Oz, snow quality was amazing. And then I did a Canadian trip, not so good. First run at Whisler on a bunny hill I had a really small fall. It's much harder to get up when its flat and my skis were tangled. I lifted a leg to straight then and POP. Did my right ACL. Skied down real slow keeping my knee as vertical as I could, next day it was 2 times its size and I couldn't walk. Bought a brace and headed home. 6 months of physio and it was 99% and I still skied for another 15 years but not so much now.No access to cheap accommodation, its crazy expensive in Oz.I was so addicted to it, almost as good as a great bike run on a great road, way more women involved as well
 
Vince: It's dificult to keep this WinSE machine on target can't wait to get back into an i7 platform.

Believe me I hurt myself badly skiing spending all night soaking in a tub of Hot water or Ice to kill the swelling of broken ribs, wrenched esophagus bleeding from the mouth but mostly sprained ankles and knee's just to get back on the Mountain.

Don't say Girls are not great skiers - I personal knew Nancy Green (Gold Medalist) and Virgia Cockrane (Bronze Medalist). I grew up with Virginia on the slopes of Levack Ontario and I met Nancy Green with her new Husband (Jean Killy - Gold Medalist Down Hill) on the slopes of Collingwood were we attempted to do some Kit Skiing when it developed.

To be young again and know better - LOL

BC Hills: Whistler was in the planning stage back then - The only run I chicken out on was the east slope of Norquay yet I could handle the the Goats Eye/Angle Face at Sun Shine.

You can't help but Love the Ski Gals.

I was the Movie Guy Skiing with these Fanatics with a 16mm Bolex strapped to me working for Chromlex at the time.

What is really neet about them memories was that I was 22 years old driving a 340 Challenger Rally Mag with FREE flights to any where in North America because I was a sponsored Skier by Demarco Sporting Goods in Sudbury Ontario and worked for Chromolex making $40,000 a year - I spent many nights couped up in Solarium suites of the Best Canadian Ski Resorts at one time for Free because everyone knew I was a Skier.

The job burnt me out after 3 years because I was always on call with a 20 minute notice to board a flight to heaven knows where and my equipment would sent on a following flight.
 
I leaned my Double Black lesion at Snow Bird, I made a left turn onto one of those thinking it might be a quick way to the bottom, steep as hell and rock hard huge moguls. We have plenty of non groomed hills at Threadbo and I could get down them in one way or another, not this one. Tried sideslipping but the mogals were way to close and as I said rock hard and there was no other way out. Didnt die but thought I might.
Absolutely loved the groomed corduroy in the USA, very fast GS turns. Massive fun. Found some thy deep powder at Park City, we get what we call powder occasional but it soon turns into deep wet sludge that you can hardly turn in. I could actually turn in this Park City stuff, still makes me smile thinking about it.What I learned from those trips is snow condition is so important to what makes a trip worthwhile.We might get 3 great days here a season.
 
Snow Skiing is learning, with humongous practice, to fall off a mountain without getting killed.

I haven't skied since 1988 when I got married - Now I'm just too old and aching muscles twitch for something I once did - but I can say I've been there and did it ;o)
 
As a kid I had to have a set of Dynamic VR 17 skis with Nevada Look bindings just like Jean Claude Killy's, Last pair of boots were Strolz, cost a fortune.
 
They are imported by that chemist bloke at Avalon,Larry Adler, foam filled. Out of my price range. My last set of skis were a pair of the newer parabolics at 175. Point your toes and they would turn, and still stable at speed.
Maybe I should have stumped up the cash for those boots. The Salasmans I had were expensive but xxx I would lose both big toenails every bloody year. Didnt matter what work I had done to them, Orthodics, pushed about, ground out, nothing fixed it,2 black big toes nails and 6 months later off they came every years for a good 10 years.
 
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