Weather where you are?

I started skiing with my family last year in Japan at age 50, totally fell in love with it, it is the right mix of adrenalin, fear, excitement and WOW just look where I am!! the crispness is unbelievable.
Of again to Japan in a few days, if you haven't tried it, check it out its awesome. Like nailing your favorite piece of road and then some, only if you come unstuck its usually not that bad. Hope to get way better this year.
 
Stitches in head, hit a rock, cracked collarbone, jumped off a cornice I probably shouldn't have ,snapped an ACL, stupid knee was probably warn out, whiplash to neck muiltipal times,back slammed at high speed overrotating a turn.Lost count of piddling stuff. And I am not that brave. Watch some mates do CPR for 30 minutes on a virtually dead bloke till the Ski Patrol arrived, found out he lived, heart attack. Its far from safe. Last few years there was usually 1 or 2 fatalities on NSW ski hills.
 
Yep, one at Buller and the other at Perisher. Used to be hard for a serving member to get accommodation at Perisher, lodge booked out by Fleet Air Arm tossers and public service associate members. Once stayed at the Kiwi Navy lodge on the north island, $1 a night.
 
We make the mistake of only drinking at fuel stops, it's not enough when it's that hot. Every 100ks helps to stop the toll of the gear and heat. Supost to be 45c this weekend even close to the coast.
 
I'm hoping for nice weather, a bunch of us are gathering out west to discuss  (drink)another trip to Cape York.

I'm hoping that the Guzzi V85 is launched by then, because that will be my weapon of choice. http://amcn.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/448263.jpg
 
Legs said:
Once stayed at the Kiwi Navy lodge on the north island, $1 a night.
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The forces get looked after quite well here. Fell off years back at the NZ Airfield champs at Wigram AFB ( long closed now ) and drowned my sorrows in the NCO's mess with a mate who was on the strength. Handles 10c each...I had to be poured into the car and taken home...

weather....Practise day at the NZGP locally cancelled due to standing water....Looks a bit better today but more rain forecast.

The buggers I went to see yesterday had all gone to the indoor go karts. Wimps.
 
43C and 50 kph winds here today, catastrophic fire conditions; exact opposite to North America and Europe  :-[
 
Legs said:
43C and 50 kph winds here today, catastrophic fire conditions; exact opposite to North America and Europe  :-[
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Just keep the hipsters out of the bush, those electric cigarettes they suck on will make everyone think there's a bush fire.
 
Just been down to the fire station, hot as hell and blowing; dickhead cyclists at the cafe drinking double decafs :o
 
angonemoto said:
Shit, I missed the whole skiing rant.

My first big mountain ski trip was to Steamboat Colorado at 14yo. I had a pair of Hexcel honeycomb skis and they would rattle on the groomed stuff, really too stiff and I paid the price by wiping out a lot. I then discovered Olins, PRE and finally K2 skis, all with Marker RR bindings as while in college at Colorado State I spent most of my time skiing Colorado and Utah. I also had a pucker run at Solitude, it was on one of the boundary chutes and I should have never been there on my 215 K2 810s (I loved the Mahre brothers so I skied what they skied.) I still have those K2s. Boots were always an issue as I have wide feet. I went through Salomon, Dachstein (bought when I skied the Ski Circus in Austria) and Lange. I still think Lange and Rossignol fit me the best but there is always some modification needed. Fast forward to last week we were in Breckenridge and not much of the mountain was open, but I got my wife and two kids up a green lift for their first time and it was a thrill for me that they didn't quit, and want to go for more this season. Now I just rent demo skis and snowboards and use my Lang/Burton boots.

Whistler is on my bucket list. I got to hurry up because I'm also wearing out, I have another knee surgery coming up this month.
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Worth getting to Whistler, north of Vancouver some ways, at least once! My youngest son, now 25, went to a pro snow board school on the glacier for two weeks every summer. Yes, summer. I took him every year from age 10 to age 17, and skied the glacier while he attended snow board school. Fabulous!

On another topic, while parts of the US and central and eastern Canada are being hit by the cold cyclone bomb, Calgary has warmed up to around freezing and just above, has made my house move challenging slinging through deep slush, including the movers semi getting stuck and delaying the move a day.......

Paul LeClair
 
Its 44c at my place today and we still have a couple of hours for more heat, and I am near the coast and usually its cooler with the sea breeze. Its hotter here than Penrith,an outer western Sydney suburb there its usually 10c hotter. Also hotter than my family's original outback western county town. It's bloody hot.
 
45 out here in God's country today.... thought would head out this morning for a bit of a blast early......as once again no takers off went by myself on my new favourite, (shh dont let Maurice know will ya  :o ) had a great run up the Putty not a lot of souls out and about. Met a group of four on Ducati's and Yamaha's, blokes from Bosnia originally so they were interested when mentioned that this bike was an ex Serb  :o

As you can see not a lot at Grey Gums, it was only a mere 40 there... so not hot at all. Good trip home now back in the shed doing some stuff for myself............ got to prepare for an interstate FIFO rider to make up the numbers next weekend so more than 1 Lav will be out and about

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Not a lot of folk out here today hmm

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thought Rossi rode a Yamaha ??

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Looks like Penrith broke the all-time highest recorded temp for the Sydney area today at 47.3c or 117f. It was hot.
 
Bloody shit NSW weather another day of punting my old Jota through near 40 degree temps again lucky back in the deep south its a more moderate 24 degrees.
Had to do quite of a bit of beer hydrating at Tom the wreckers yesterday after a spirited ride with Batto on his 79 Jota Tom on his 80 Jota and my 81 Jota it was a real case of a trifecta
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That?s cold, Grant.

At the other end of the thermometer, we spent the day in and out of the pool as temps were in the mid 40s today - hottest day that I?ve known for a long time and not enjoyable..
 
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