Author Topic: Sunny in Seattle?! wtf! (Read 2567 times)

flybox1 · « **on:** February 09, 2011, 10:48:00 AM »

how come it only comes out when i'm stuck in an office weekdays, and it has to friggin rain all weekend....every weekend?!?!? guess thats par for the course here in the PNW this time of the year. If you're out playing hookie and riding around Seattle today. GOOD FOR YOU!!!

its gorgeous outside! it was D@MN frosty this am!

NateTheBookie · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2011, 10:54:58 AM »

Man I hear ya! I'm supposed to teach a friend how to blacksmith if I can get a sunny weekend day, but the clouds have just been mocking us for like 3 weeks now. It's freakin' ridiculous.

fatmatt650 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2011, 11:00:03 AM »

;DNot to gloat or anything but the SF Bay Area has just been ridiculously pleasant all year. Even when we got a month and a half of rain last Nov. I only had to break out the rain gear a few times.

Grnrngr · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2011, 11:06:08 AM »

Plenty sun down here in Portland too, not so many folks on the road as on the weekends.....AND I"M OFF!!!!!

Mars · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2011, 04:55:38 PM »

I'm swamped with school work and my bike isn't back together yet (putting clipons and new carb boots on) so today mocked me. I made it pay by working on the bike until now.

tweakin · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2011, 06:53:34 PM »

I hear ya! I was busy as hell today and every time I looked out the window I got pissed. Hope it sticks around for at least one nice day this weekend....Oh I forgot my wife wants me to paint!

Quote from: flybox1 on February 09, 2011, 10:48:00 AM

how come it only comes out when i'm stuck in an office weekdays, and it has to friggin rain all weekend....every weekend?!?!? guess thats par for the course here in the PNW this time of the year. If you're out playing hookie and riding around Seattle today. GOOD FOR YOU!!!

its gorgeous outside! it was D@MN frosty this am!

NickC · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2011, 07:25:17 PM »

It's been great weather offshore! I know as soon as I pull in, it'll all go to #$%*

Industrial Rat400f Killer · « **Reply #7 on:** February 09, 2011, 07:36:17 PM »

Screw the PNW, when my kid is grown we're moving, maybe.

brandEn · « **Reply #8 on:** February 09, 2011, 07:52:32 PM »

Sun is over rated. Thats why I live in Seattle, work nights and sleep during the day. Oh wait... and because I don't have seniority to hold another shift.

tweakin · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2011, 05:38:51 AM »

+1 They wife and hope to move south with in the next year.. The kids will adapt just fine.

Quote from: Industrial Rat400f Killer on February 09, 2011, 07:36:17 PM

Screw the PNW, when my kid is grown we're moving, maybe.

Industrial Rat400f Killer · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2011, 05:46:11 AM »

Quote from: tweakin on February 10, 2011, 05:38:51 AM

+1 They wife and hope to move south with in the next year.. The kids will adapt just fine.

Quote from: Industrial Rat400f Killer on February 09, 2011, 07:36:17 PM
Screw the PNW, when my kid is grown we're moving, maybe.

My son doesn't live with me so if I moved now I'd never see. Yes, I know there are ways but his mother is hard enough to deal with already and we live close.

I like this place, carpenters get paid well and it rains less than half of the days as it does up here. That calculates into about 280 days a year of dry riding instead of 90 days if we're lucky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_California

wingman1946 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2011, 06:58:45 AM »

Don't knock the whole PNW. I live in Albany Oregon and to keep both bikes exercised I ride almost every day. Sometimes just far enough to get the oil warmed up good but I'm out riding. You will get tired of the crowded roads and brown scenery to the south real fast. Learn to dance in the rain.

bikerbart · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2011, 08:27:05 AM »

Yeah,i got off work and jumped on my bike for a lil while,the weather has been great for the middle of Feb,in fact its been a pretty mild winter here

(sorry rest of country((cept san fran,of course

)

tweakin · « **Reply #13 on:** February 10, 2011, 08:30:48 AM »

Looks great! I lived in Chico, CA for a year and loved the weather. Wore sunglasses every day I was there and put up the Christmas lights in shorts. Quick drive to Tahoe for the snow.

I hear ya about the kid, I couldn't imagine not seeing my girls.

Quote from: Industrial Rat400f Killer on February 10, 2011, 05:46:11 AM

Quote from: tweakin on February 10, 2011, 05:38:51 AM
+1 They wife and hope to move south with in the next year.. The kids will adapt just fine.

Quote from: Industrial Rat400f Killer on February 09, 2011, 07:36:17 PM
Screw the PNW, when my kid is grown we're moving, maybe.

My son doesn't live with me so if I moved now I'd never see. Yes, I know there are ways but his mother is hard enough to deal with already and we live close.

I like this place, carpenters get paid well and it rains less than half of the days as it does up here. That calculates into about 280 days a year of dry riding instead of 90 days if we're lucky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_California

Duanob · « **Reply #14 on:** February 10, 2011, 09:14:04 AM »

Quote from: flybox1 on February 09, 2011, 10:48:00 AM

how come it only comes out when i'm stuck in an office weekdays, and it has to friggin rain all weekend....every weekend?!?!? guess thats par for the course here in the PNW this time of the year. If you're out playing hookie and riding around Seattle today. GOOD FOR YOU!!!

its gorgeous outside! it was D@MN frosty this am!

Dudes! This is supposed to be our secret that the rest of the world shall never know about! Sun in the PNW is unheard of it never happened.

I have noticed a lot of 2 wheelers out the last two days. Makes me jealous my ride is being worked on.

flybox1 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 10, 2011, 09:26:41 AM »

Oops, My Bad!

Perry Como was WRONG!

DavePhipps · « **Reply #16 on:** February 10, 2011, 10:45:22 AM »

I completely remember the this happening to me when I lived there. I worked graveyard shift and missed most of the sunny days to ride on. Rain on the way to and from work,then sun when I slept.

My kids and I will be returning there someday, and we'll all be riding together.

Duanob · « **Reply #17 on:** February 10, 2011, 10:55:00 AM »

Quote from: flybox1 on February 10, 2011, 09:26:41 AM

Oops, My Bad!

Perry Como was WRONG!

Wow! nice shot! That sums up seattle in one photograph.

Grnrngr · « **Reply #18 on:** February 10, 2011, 11:05:15 AM »

Gotta +1 to Santa Rosa tho...it's close enough to the coast to not be as brown as a lot of places, great roads, close to the ocean, close to the Napa valley wine country, not far from SF if you like those sorts of amusements, pretty much the only thing wrong with it is the same thing thats wrong with the rest of the state....the screwed up people running the show. For example..don't know if they passed it, but they were trying to make it illegal to sell parts out of a wrecking yard for cars more than 10 yrs old. Personally, I don't have anything newer than 20yrs old, and car registration fees border on insanity.....But all that slides to the back of your mind when your blastin down those country roads in the Marin/Mendicino area..
Really foggy here in Ptown today, but it's burnin off..hmmmm..ride to the mountain? up the gorge?? out to the coast??..hhmmmmmmm

NickC · « **Reply #19 on:** February 10, 2011, 12:48:36 PM »

It's gorgeous in Tillamook right now

DavePhipps · « **Reply #20 on:** February 10, 2011, 03:19:31 PM »

Well, to put things in perspective. PNW not so much sun,and some rain: midwest, my driveway is a 30foot ice slide and has been for some time now. I'll trade anyday.

bikerbart · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2011, 10:00:03 AM »

Tillamook,best cheese on the wet coast.mmmm,cheese.

Duanob · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2011, 11:07:47 AM »

Wow that would be a switch: people moving back to California? Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana. Colorado, New Mexico we all thank you! I guess now that the cost of living has settled down a bit, thanks to the recession, California will be the new hot spot.

Grnrngr · « **Reply #23 on:** February 11, 2011, 07:37:10 PM »

Quote from: bikerbart on February 11, 2011, 10:00:03 AM

Tillamook,best cheese on the wet coast.mmmm,cheese.

Pretty darn good Ice Cream too...

flybox1 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 11, 2011, 09:36:35 PM »

am i detecting a side-trip to the OR portion of the rally?

seaweb11 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 11, 2011, 10:02:51 PM »

I bet it's raining right now

Duanob · « **Reply #26 on:** February 12, 2011, 04:25:50 PM »

Quote from: seaweb11 on February 11, 2011, 10:02:51 PM

I bet it's raining right now

Only sideways

flybox1 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 13, 2011, 07:42:45 AM »

fiddled with the bike all morning and for once, the "gotta top off the tank" excuse was true.

i'd just rinsed it out.
went out for a 20 minute sprint between showers. at one point I had to change lanes to avoid a 12-14lb beaver.
i guess with all that rain it was too wet in the marsh for him

Industrial Rat400f Killer · « **Reply #28 on:** February 13, 2011, 08:51:24 PM »

Rode two up on the HD with the wife and single on the 400f today before the rain came to town. Cold but enjoyable.

bikerbart · « **Reply #29 on:** February 14, 2011, 03:37:22 PM »

Yup,I went for a nice ride down chuckanut on sunday,bike is running great,did a quick 75 mile loop.

seaweb11 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 15, 2011, 10:15:16 PM »

I love that road

Duanob · « **Reply #31 on:** February 24, 2011, 10:29:15 AM »

Uh what were you saying fly?

flybox1 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 24, 2011, 10:39:50 AM »

Quote from: Duanob on February 24, 2011, 10:29:15 AM

Uh what were you saying fly?

only 3" out where i live. 20 mi north of me got 2'
half my office in bothell no-show'd today.
less than an inch here.

buncha p*$$*es!

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Author Topic: Sunny in Seattle?! wtf! (Read 2567 times)