But without xmas we'd have to find another excuse for spending money on our bikes We just need a weather machine so its warm and sunny all year round
If we did not have winter then how on earth am I going to improve my riding skills? I mean it's hard enough to teach some morons who never venture out in the rain what braking distances are and where grip is and not. Ice is what we need then I can gather data on tyre comparisons.
Whoa... I refuse to ride in the wet. I went through all that misery 35 years ago when I had no choice but to ride in it, rain, snow, ice, sleet, fog and hail, because it was all I had to get around in. Now I don't need to, I can sit safe in my car when the weather's crap. I don't think, although I'm happy to take it under advisement, that I'm a moron. And I won't claim that those who, on the other hand, will use a public road to test the limits of adhesion under any conditions in the hope that their belief in their own abilities will bring them back in line when they find the outside of those envelopes, morons either, although there'll be a lot more people out there who would be likely to do so rather than over my own, perhaps over cautious approach to wet weather riding in my dotage. Now, in the spirit of happy banter, in which I'm sure it was meant, I'll wind my neck in over it, but I'll wipe a single tear of resentment over being thought of as such. If I was honest.
I am with Ken on this one...plus those that know me know I don't send Christmas cards, instead I donate a load of money to the hospital children's ward that treated one of my sons when he had a brain tumour, that was a while ago, but I keep on giving the same amount plus inflation every year and will continue doing so for as long as I can.
