Weather where you are?

Paul - glad I got out on the Laverda for a wee bit on Saturday... hope its not the last ride of the year.  I'm not ready for another winter like the last one!
 
7 deg cel, and worse than that, a few house owners have spoken to the press about motorcyclists being too loud (and some car owners as well), so now there's a new debate here in Denmark, pointing towards heavy fines automatically done by microphone posts along roads.
God save us all from the tyrany. Free World? My arse.

Jacques
 
redfox said:
there's a new debate here in Denmark, pointing towards heavy fines automatically done by microphone posts along roads.
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I can't see it happening any time soon. It would have to be a very sophisticated device to get reliable sound level readings from a passing vehicle. It would need to take into account the background noise from other vehicles. What if there's a truck nearby using its engine brake, or a plane flying overhead, or a clap of thunder, or a bird perched on the microphone singing its lungs out?  I don't know of any sound level measuring device that would be smart enough to focus on one source of noise and ignore all others. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that it would require the invention of a whole new noise measuring technology that would have to stand up to forensic scrutiny in court. 

Although if your legal system is anything like ours (in Australia) in relation to automated traffic infringement detection devices (speed cameras, red light cameras, etc.), you're presumed guilty until proven innocent.  Even if the accuracy of the device is called into question, it's less costly to pay the fine than to mount a legal challenge against a false charge.
 
Canada is using this already some places. And it seems taht Switzerland is usingit too.

Kind regards,
jacques
 
Just back from two weeks holidays in Bali ........ nice weather there, min 24c max 31c.

Did a Day trip on a KTM300 ISDE two banger, up into the middle of the island. Speaking of two bangers, I managed to have two bangers on the day trip, one having me landing on a rock, bike sandwiching my thigh on said rock, had to wait for slower riders to pull bike off me. I now have a bruise on my thigh the size of my hand.

Second banger was falling off on a single bike track with a plastic water pipe running alongside in the grass.

:o I found the pipe with the front wheel, which sent me off into a tree and almost went off a cliff face, save for tree, and cracked a rib ....... so I found out later.

So now I?m home, and it?s about to rain, I don?t mind cause I can?t do much atm anyway.  :(

On flight home, we discussed doing it again, two days this time though. Family didn?t agree  ::)



 
"and cracked a rib". Farkinell.....can?t cough, can?t fart, can?t sneeze, can?t yawn. Hate them damaged ribs.
Noisy bike laws, we can thank the American Iron brigade for that. It is rare to hear a loud sportsbike around where I live, the tech has caught up and they can go deadly quick, very quietly. If you ride a gigantic vee twin cruiser, then loud pipes save lives is the slogan.
Getting pretty chilly around southern Norway now but still not icy, any time now though.
 
Paul: Hate Alberta Weather, in spite of Chinooks, with Flat Boring Landscape. You ride for miles upon end without ever approaching a corner whereas on the North Shore - You're always in a corner ;o)

Lots of Hilly and Winding Cambrian Shield Asphalt into November ;o)

And you can still Fly Fish (Net White Fish) with a 6 Pack or venture into Goose, Merganse shot gun hunting.

Suggest you buy a Land Rover or Jeep and carry a Canoe. Any dirt bike would be a PLUS ;o)

The thing is that there is NO Jobs around here - Unless your into Trucking, a Mennonite or a Federal sponsored Native.

Americans own all the shore line property.

The North Shore of Lake Huron has a great Geographic Climate and the main reason why I wanted to retire here.
 
Went for a Sunday morn ride today and checked the temp as I was about to go -  ticked over 31c and 65% humidity at 8am!
Thank goodness we are not fully into summer with the normal very high humidity. Headline temps don't get as high but it is much more oppressive and can't be escaped ............No rain on the horizon either :'(
 
Riding? Bloody hell. Best I am going to manage is taking the grandkids tobogganing today at the park across the street. There is lots of snow, a big slope, and a good speed can be achieved :D

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/calgary-breaks-76-year-snowfall-record-on-friday-adding-to-unusually-snowy-year/ar-BBQ3sFa?li=AAggFp5

Paul LeClair
 
Paul LeClair said:
Riding? Bloody hell. Best I am going to manage is taking the grandkids tobogganing today at the park across the street. There is lots of snow, a big slope, and a good speed can be achieved :D

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/calgary-breaks-76-year-snowfall-record-on-friday-adding-to-unusually-snowy-year/ar-BBQ3sFa?li=AAggFp5

Paul LeClair
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::) I was wonder where or what bogganing was, thinking there was a typo involved.
To bogganing isn't something we get to do here in Queensland very often, if at all.

Nice and warm here today, top of 34c predicted.
 
At my cottage on Lake Winnipeg, it is the world's 12th largest lake and about 30k or 20 miles across where I am. Frozen solid but no snow. It froze too rough to skate on but once we get some snow should be good for snowmobiling. Laverda is hibernating until spring.
 
chrisk said:
::) I was wonder where or what bogganing was, thinking there was a typo involved.
To bogganing isn't something we get to do here in Queensland very often, if at all.

Nice and warm here today, top of 34c predicted.
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Got to do quite a bit of toboggining as a kid in the northern Melbourne suburbs... our sleds were car bonnets, FX/FJs a definite favourite, and the slopes were covered with dry grass.  Speeds were impressive as we hurtled down with 3-4 kids on one bonnet!  Crashes and injuries no less. :D 

Murky November weather here, won't be getting on a bike for quite some time! 

piet
 
Saw quite a bit of tobogganing up at Bathurst during the Easter riots, I mean races :D
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_skiing
If you?re into that sort of thing.
Dry and cold here in Norway now, no snow around where we live. Another long winter has started. Why don?t we just hibernate?
 
Tippie said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_skiing
If you?re into that sort of thing.
Dry and cold here in Norway now, no snow around where we live. Another long winter has started. Why don?t we just hibernate?
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'cos there's too many fucked Lavs needing repairs... most of all, my own! ::)

piet
 
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