Wednesday, January 2, 2013

417 Feet of Snow

 
 
It's Wednesday morning, and it appears that I've survived the Mayan 2012 disaster (that I'd been hearing on occasion since the mid-1970s) and my trip into the year 2013 in one piece.
I'm now wondering what the next great prophecy is supposed to be.
Hopefully, it has a lot to do with some good dirt bike riding, goddammit.

So far, it looks like this winter ain't gonna' be an above-normal one, temperature- and weather-wise, like last year's was.
We got about 8 inches of snow Saturday evening, and the temps outside for today and the next two days is for below normal.
I don't care for snow and cold weather, and I don't like my main interaction with the ol' WR-250FP to be my walking by, stopping, and squeezing the clutch lever as the bike sits parked on a stand.

If I had about $500 to spare and didn't need to buy another barrel of overpriced fuel oil for heat inside the house, I'd like to try a set of winter tires that come with those carbide-tipped friction spikes sticking out of them.
That is very tempting, indeed.

My tender shoulder is healing well and feels much better than it did 10 days ago.

 
 
-John