Where did you ride today?

Well... 'Tis the season.
5-7 inches of the frozen white stuff expected this weekend with overnight temps possibly as low as zero F.
The back door at my son's house has the weather seal ripped up and torn off due to their 3 dogs tearing it up for the bottom 2 feet. I bought some upgraded weather strips that mount on the inside that the dogs can't reach from outside (since that is where they tear it up). It arrived tonight so I plan to ride up there tomorrow or Thursday to install it. The coldest temps come during and after the weekend. We will be having Thanksgiving dinner on Friday so that will hopefully work out. Still expect temps during the day to be close to freezing. Last ride for a while after that.
 
Nope.
No riding for a while.
Had the big snow... only about 8 inches or so.
Plows were out right away to clear the roads. BUT, and this is the important part, because there was a good chance of rain starting this storm turning to snow there was no brine or salt put down. So nothing to melt snow on the roads first and it shows. The plows go down the street in front of my house a few times a day at least and there is still a crust of frozen stuff covering the street... even 3 days after the event. Usually the streets are dry by now and the melting snow has washed off most if not all the treatment.

My driveway is not much better since it is north facing (makes a big difference) so the sun doesn't do much to help there. The driveways across the street that are south facing are mostly clear and dry.
 
I have never posted in the where did I ride today. I keep forgetting 🤔. November 23 took a ride with a buddy, a BMW rider. We live in California. There’s a really good ride from TRACY heading out Corral Hollow rd. past the off-road vehicle park (Carnage) and follow that to Livermore and turn left on Mines Road. People that live around here probably know the road? once you get on mines I don’t think there is a stretch of straight road for over 200 yards. Lots of curves. Had lunch at the junction of Mines and Del Porto Canyon Road and then continued on into Patterson and back to TRACY. It was a good ride.
 

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Braved the 50F weather, brrr, and went to the DPS license office to try to get my Texas license. Of course I was woefully unprepared and rode away to return another day. It was actually not a bad trip as those office visits go since the greeter really knew her stuff and of course I wasn't the first ever unprepared customer. I was naive to believe MAYBE I didn't need my birth certificate--which is in storage from the move. So there you go. Yeah, you do need it, as everyone but me knows. But, wow, I do love riding in the colder weather. Have to say, I'm a bit surprised by the amount of wind I get from behind the larger wind screen. I added an extender which brought the wind over my helmet, an improvement, but the arms/shoulder catch a fair amount of air, which i did not expect. I should have, it's clearly not a wide screen like I got used to on my C10 Connie and GL1500. Still, the ST is just such a fantastic bike I look for reasons to ride it..HER, actually, Stella. Yeah, we do that in our family.
 
I don't know if I'll be riding in temps as low as I usually do during this cold season. +14F is entirely doable in comfort but below that my old circulation is beginning to show making it a bit cool to be attempting zero F any more.
Maybe once just to see if I can do it on a naked bike if the roads and weather are clear and dry.
 
Not today, but yesterday I rode the newly reopened "Snake" that has been closed for 7+ years! It's the unofficial name for the section of Mulholland Road between Kanan Road and the famous Rock Store. It was closed after the Wolsey Fire, reopened briefly (at least I was able to ride it) then closed again when part of the road was damaged due rains and earth movement from the lack of vegetation that was burned away.
I think this past weekend was the first weekend it was open but I decided to wait until Monday figuring it'd be a zoo on the weekend.
 
wjbertrand said:
Not today, but yesterday I rode the newly reopened "Snake" that has been closed for 7+ years! It's the unofficial name for the section of Mulholland Road between Kanan Road and the famous Rock Store. It was closed after the Wolsey Fire, reopened briefly (at least I was able to ride it) then closed again when part of the road was damaged due rains and earth movement from the lack of vegetation that was burned away.
I think this past weekend was the first weekend it was open but I decided to wait until Monday figuring it'd be a zoo on the weekend.
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I have occasionally wondered why the YouTube Snake videos dried up a while ago. There used to be many first-person videos, some mature, many not, but all pretty amazing for the road. Now I understand.
 
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