{"id":7959,"date":"2017-01-05T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2017-01-05T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:05:17","slug":"a-mild-january-1-means-go-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/a-mild-january-1-means-go-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mild January 1 Means ‘Go Ride’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snow doesn’t matter if it’s not on the road.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

When the projected high for January 1 is 50 degrees that means one thing to me: ride three motorcycles.<\/p>\n

It’s an unbroken rule with me that I ride each of my bikes at least once every calendar month. And at this time of year, considering you never know what weather will follow, I often take all three out in quick succession on one day. I mean, they need to be ridden. Whereas I had just ridden the Kawi the day before and it started just fine, the Suzuki hesitated a tiny bit for the first time since I’ve owned it and the Honda battery was so weak I wasn’t sure it would start at all. If I hadn’t put it on the trickle charge an hour earlier I’m sure it would not have.<\/p>\n

So anyway, riding them all three one after the other ensures that I’ve got it done. I hope I’ll be doing a bunch more riding during the month but if the weather turns and stays really ugly, at least I got out that one time.<\/p>\n

Weather turning, that is, to what we have right now. Very cold with snow falling.<\/p>\n

So I got out, and I didn’t even do the full bundle-up that I did on December 31<\/a>. I didn’t wear the chaps and I skipped the balaclava. Didn’t need them.<\/p>\n

Fact is, we’ve had a pretty mild winter so far, despite a few days like today. I rode across the top of the Cherry Creek Reservoir dam and by golly, there is still open water in the reservoir. I can’t ever remember that happening before this late in the season.<\/p>\n

There were a couple other interesting things I saw on the southwest side of the dam. A soccer game was in progress on a field so green it had to be summer. Or had to be AstroTurf. That’s got to be new. And I noticed a lot of small groups of people wandering around in a semi open field and wondered what they were up to till I noticed the dogs. It has been made into a dog park. That’s got to be new, too.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I went riding. I wasn’t the only one. I didn’t go to the New Year’s Day brunch<\/a> in Castle Rock with the RMMRC<\/a> because I wasn’t ready to head out that early. But I’m betting that between the three groups there were a lot of bikes in Castle Rock. As it was, I saw a good number of other guys out as well.<\/p>\n

At this time of year you’ve got to do it when you can.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

We ride not to escape life but for life to not escape us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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