was First Ride, now fork seal cleaner tool & back to first ride.

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On Wednesday 15/05/2013 at 10:15 am, Arthur Robinson  wrote:
> Nice account Mr. Jim and you're still made of pretty stout stuff.... 
> However
> the memory could be a little better... Got colder in the 
> evening...4°C,
> Surprise!
>
> Art in TO (who hasn't even been out yet!)
>
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> From: gpzlist-bounces at micapeak.com 
> [mailto:gpzlist-bounces at micapeak.com] On
> Behalf Of masonjs at nrtco.net
> Sent: May-14-13 10:56 PM
> To: Art Robinson
> Subject: Re: was First Ride, now fork seal cleaner tool & back to 
> first
> ride.
>
>
>
> I got out on my first ride of the season today.
> It was a spur of the moment thing.  My wife and her sister had gone to 
> a
> 65th birthday and retirement dinner for our brother in law in Port 
> Elmsley
> about 175 km (110 miles away.  I cut the lawn and thought hell I'm up 
> for a
> free prime rib dinner I'll take the bike.  First I had to find it 
> under a
> mountain of yard sale crap.  Added air to the tires lubed the chain 
> then
> went to get my gear.  I found Levi my labrador
> had eaten  my left cold weather glove.   All I could find was my right
> hand skidoo glove.  I fpound a pair of elk skin gloves that I  from 
> Steve
> Northrup.  It was 16C (62F) I figured these'll do.  Not thinking I'd 
> be
> returning in of the evening.
> It was a beautiful day so I rode over to Calabogie and took 511 the 
> Lanark
> road..  50 km of twisties.  After 3 hours I managed to make it to Port
> Elmsley and supper.  By the time I was ready to leave the temperature 
> was 4c
> (40F).  I had packed long underwear but not my electric vest.  I 
> scrounged a
> pair of snowmobile mitts from the host and took off.  The darker it 
> got the
> colder it got.  A stop for gas and 1.5 hours later I pulled in the 
> driveway.
> Both my knee caps were nearly frozen.  I've had this before and 
> dropped my
> old Yamaha 650 twin in Kirkland Lake when I stopped and my frozen 
> knees
> wouldn't move .  I remembered this and as I rolled into town I removed 
> my
> feet from the pegs and moved my legs around .
> I'll have to install my heated grips.  I'm glad I had the mitts.
> Still a cold ride is better than no ride.
>
>
> Jim
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