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The rainy season in DaNang is winding down at last! The cloud base is getting higher everyday with many more brief patches of sunlight. It’s not rained for nearly a week and even then we only got a light drizzle. Low temperatures have been 19 to 22 and highs 26 to 28, so the trend has been positive.
 
End of November here on the North Shore of Lake Huron. No snow yet but it's coming and the inland lakes are about to freeze over.
Could be a great Year for Lake Skating !
 
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Vancouver, west coast here ,,,,Sunny and 8c (47f) tomorrow. Tonight though, -2c, so local municipalities are spraying salt brine on the roads. That’s a no starter to me for any of my bikes. Regular Sunday night coffee with the local bike club lads, I’m sure a couple bikes will be out, not me.
 
Steve G. said:
Vancouver, west coast here ,,,,Sunny and 8c (47f) tomorrow. Tonight though, -2c, so local municipalities are spraying salt brine on the roads. That’s a no starter to me for any of my bikes. Regular Sunday night coffee with the local bike club lads, I’m sure a couple bikes will be out, not me.
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That salt fucks everything I presume.
 
Generally 40000 tonnes of "salt" (a chemical mix) go just onto Oslo roads each winter which then washes into the ground and fjord. A controversial topic. Causes cars to dissolve over time, but prevents them from getting crashed. Permanently wet roads in town, but when you get out into the country where they don't salt, lovely white and dry, but can get polished and deadly. We had a cold spell last week well below zero but rain and plus degrees this week. Two wheeled adventures are of the pedal kind now until spring, with the ancient mtb on studded tyres.
 
Steve G. said:
It rusts metal, causes severe “checking” to raw aluminium, nasty stuff.
Never ride a motorcycle Long a wet ocean beach!
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I rode my Laverda along the 'Ninety Mile Beach' on New Zealand's North Island, where we almost got caught by the incoming tide. Rode along a few beaches in Venezuela, too. It's the sand that is really the problem, not conducive to a lengthy chain life. A hose or bucket of fresh water washes off the salt. Bonneville in Utah is far worse.
Oh, the weather here in the desert has been nice this past week or so, 48 to 77°F (9-25 °C), perfect for our air-cooled Laverdas.
 
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I spent a week at Yamba, on the north coast of NSW, and at Angourie, a famous surf break, and the front guard in just a week ended up in a shocking state from sea spray.
 
Parked my bike outside down at the beach house in Walkerville in southern Victoria. Just the ocean mist and drizzle has left salt residue. Gotta get onto it, clean and polish bare alu.
 
ozijotati said:
Better get it looking good for the Xmas party Q man😂🍺🍺🍺
Tom
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Unfortunately I'm gonna be a no-show, Tommy :cry: I'm due in Bright to attack the climbs in the Vic alps on my other two-wheeled amore .... the bicycle!

Very sorry to be missing the banter and the tasty dog's eyes, but my mate Walky will be there showing off his tasty SF2, finally resurrected after 25 years under his house - complete with a few mods, like a 270 lightened crank conversion with Redax CNC crank centre, RS36s and Ignitech, to name a few.

Was looking fwd to yakking about your race bike and generally catching up with the goss.
 
Will miss you Q man😢, but looking forward to to seeing Wally’s bike finally finished. Pretty sure the pres and others will keep the show going😂🍺🍺🍺
Tom
 
The one downward ear says it all, Henry!! Hounds are amazing in their ability to communicate through non-lingual means (excluding the amazing versatility of the humble bark to convey specific messages). :D 39C here in Melbourne yesterday, 36C the day before, 33C today. The Poms playing cricket have not been enjoying the lovely summer weather!
 
The Sock said:
“Playing cricket”???
No, Quentin, playing at cricket, more like.
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I dunno, Hamish. Stokesey and Joffrey ( :cool: from Game of Thrones) did a top job toward rescuing a rapidly sinking ship. Reminded me of that infuriatingly good innings by Stokes on home turf where he achieved the impossible and scored an insane number of runs to secure a victory with only rank pseudo battsters at the other end of the crease.
 
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