Topic: What's the coldest ride you ever took?

[Skonnie Boy]

Damn, HM.  Everything was more dangerous and entertaining in the 70's.

2" of snow on the ground, finally.  We broke the record for snowless winters this year.  Until the salts more or less off the road, riding is done for a while.  Which just means a few weeks, really.

[CycleRanger]

Damn, HM.  Everything was more dangerous and entertaining in the 70's.

Damn right!
Speaking of that, I am reminded of one occasion back then when I was still in junior high I decided to ride up to the bike shop to see if the parts I'd ordered had come in. (They apparently didn't have phones in the 70's..... ) 
It was ~45° and overcast in February. 

On the way there it started misting then drizzling. I rode probably 50 miles through that with an open face helmet, jeans, sneakers, and a nylon insulated coat. None of it water-proof in any way. I assume I had gloves but I don't remember.
By the time I got home I was soaked to the skin and so cold I could barely get off the bike. Dumb.

[Bob Wessner]

Damn, HM.  Everything was more dangerous and entertaining in the 70's.

Damn right!
Speaking of that, I am reminded of one occasion back then when I was still in junior high I decided to ride up to the bike shop to see if the parts I'd ordered had come in. (They apparently didn't have phones in the 70's..... ) 
It was ~45° and overcast in February. 

On the way there it started misting then drizzling. I rode probably 50 miles through that with an open face helmet, jeans, sneakers, and a nylon insulated coat. None of it water-proof in any way. I assume I had gloves but I don't remember.
By the time I got home I was soaked to the skin and so cold I could barely get off the bike. Dumb.

Well, don't keep us in suspense. Had the parts come in? 

[CycleRanger]

Damn, HM.  Everything was more dangerous and entertaining in the 70's.

Damn right!
Speaking of that, I am reminded of one occasion back then when I was still in junior high I decided to ride up to the bike shop to see if the parts I'd ordered had come in. (They apparently didn't have phones in the 70's..... ) 
It was ~45° and overcast in February. 

On the way there it started misting then drizzling. I rode probably 50 miles through that with an open face helmet, jeans, sneakers, and a nylon insulated coat. None of it water-proof in any way. I assume I had gloves but I don't remember.
By the time I got home I was soaked to the skin and so cold I could barely get off the bike. Dumb.

Well, don't keep us in suspense. Had the parts come in? 

Oh, yeah, I forgot the most important part, ha ha NO!  The parts were not in! 
And thinking about it I believe I was waiting for a side cover, a tailight lens, and I think a clutch cable!  So I may have ridden all that without a clutch...
Totaled that bike about three months later and broke my leg badly....   It was great to be young, wasn't it?

[HondaMan]

Damn, HM.  Everything was more dangerous and entertaining in the 70's.

Or: Everything was [dumber] and [more ill-advised] in the 70's?

[Skonnie Boy]

Damn, HM.  Everything was more dangerous and entertaining in the 70's.

Or: Everything was [dumber] and [more ill-advised] in the 70's?

Like it said on the rotunda of the last place I worked in Texas - "Freedom and Responsibility".  The older I get, the more libertarian I become.  Maybe someday I'll regale kids with tales of my crazy, dangerous smoking in bars.

65º degrees tomorrow.  The Midwest: Its the new South.

[70CB750]

Your kids will pull their stunts, you will know later or never - no generation is much different from the other.

Just saying 

[Don R]

I was pretty cold one Sunday coming home from Muenster Indiana and the first Honda world tour. It was only in the 30's but most of our clothes were still damp fron saturdays monsoons. Skonnie boy was there too. BlueBeetle froze on sunday too going to Indy!

[cobra]

I think my coldest ride was in 1964/65, 3 of us went to the elephant rally, at the nurburgring, just before we left to make our way home, we had a flat rear tyre, it was snowing really heavy, by the time we got it repaired, it was getting dark, we were on a BMW boxer, and the snow was coming over the cylinders, every mile or so the plugs shorted out  and we had to clean away the snow and start again, it took us 10 hours to get to zeebruger to catch the ferry home to england. but by this time the clutch had given up. When we got back to england, we had to bump start the bike, run and jump onto the back of the bike, as once it was moving it couldn't stop. we rode right round the london ring road, to get to the M1 motorway, when we reached the slip road, to join the M1 it looked like a giant runway, as there were no central reservation at that time, and it was covered with snow,  it took us another 8 hours to get up to Nottingham, a distance of about 120 miles when i got to bed i slept for 48 hours.

[HondaMan]

I think my coldest ride was in 1964/65, 3 of us went to the elephant rally, at the nurburgring, just before we left to make our way home, we had a flat rear tyre, it was snowing really heavy, by the time we got it repaired, it was getting dark, we were on a BMW boxer, and the snow was coming over the cylinders, every mile or so the plugs shorted out  and we had to clean away the snow and start again, it took us 10 hours to get to zeebruger to catch the ferry home to england. but by this time the clutch had given up. When we got back to england, we had to bump start the bike, run and jump onto the back of the bike, as once it was moving it couldn't stop. we rode right round the london ring road, to get to the M1 motorway, when we reached the slip road, to join the M1 it looked like a giant runway, as there were no central reservation at that time, and it was covered with snow,  it took us another 8 hours to get up to Nottingham, a distance of about 120 miles when i got to bed i slept for 48 hours.

Now THERE's a good one!
I saw the front of my 750 engine once fully packed in with snow after it had been sitting toward a storm, but never shorting out the plugs while running! Way cool!

Oh...no pun intended.