{"id":3537,"date":"2012-11-19T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2012-11-18T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T00:57:41","slug":"my-first-sorta-cold-days-ride-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/my-first-sorta-cold-days-ride-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"My First (Sorta) Cold Day’s Ride This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Honda in the King Soopers parking lot in Aspen Park.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

What a gorgeous day Sunday. I rode the Kawi to the ABATE meeting and then in the afternoon I took off on the Honda for a real ride. Time to give that battery a good charge.<\/p>\n

It was so nice that the mountains called. I knew as I went up in elevation the temperature was going to drop but I was dressed warmly and had my electric vest on. Upward!<\/p>\n

I cruised up through Morrison to Idledale, to Kittredge, and on to Evergreen. Lots of bikes on the road. Lots of bikes parked in Morrison and Evergreen.<\/p>\n

And yes, it got cooler. It didn’t take long for me to be glad I had the electric vest on. It was sunny, but with the sun low in the south, the canyon was mostly in shadow. And the higher I went, the lower the mercury dipped.<\/p>\n

By the time I reached Evergreen it was getting cloudy. I had wanted to stop but didn’t. You know how you have intentions and yet sometimes you never act on them. That was me. I turned south on Highway 73, the road to where I would meet U.S. 285 at Conifer. Now I was getting cold, especially my hands. I realized the time had come to switch to my winter riding gloves and I wished I had done so already. By the time I reached Conifer I was starting to wonder if my vest had stopped working; I was that cold.<\/p>\n

So I cruised on down to Aspen Park and pulled off to get something hot to hold and drink. There’s a Starbucks in the King Soopers there and that was just the ticket. Feeling reasonably warm again, I rolled on back down the hill. By the time I got back to the city it was a comfortable temp again but I kept the vest turned on anyway. Felt good. And yes, it was still working.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story, or lesson or whatever: It’s that time of year. I probably won’t be riding into the mountains again until sometime next year. And I really do need to get some electric gloves on my hands, sooner rather than later. Judy said she’d get me some for Christmas, and if I tell her specifically what I want she won’t wait for Christmas. I had forgotten to do that. No more forgetting.<\/p>\n

But oh man, what a great day to be out for a ride. After doing all this riding this past summer I haven’t been on the bikes all that much this fall. And now I’ve started a job, for the first time in more than three years. I’m back at the point where when I occasionally go for a ride it hits me that, “Hey, this is really fun! I should do this more!” From here on it’s all about the weather.<\/p>\n

Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong>
\nWomen motorcyclist research project seeks participants<\/a><\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

The world belongs to those who can laugh at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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