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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:37:48 -0800, sms
wrote: On 1/11/2017 9:14 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 5:12:56 PM UTC-8, Duane wrote: I'm not a big fan of riding in the rain. If it's pouring when I get up for work I'm likely to drive. I won't let the threat of rain stop me so I've been caught in it. I ride my road bike in the rain since I sold the touring bike. I don't really have problems with the 700c 23s that I use. I'm running them at 90 psi and they grip well enough. The real problem with rain for me is the visibility. Both mine and the drivers. As for freezing rain, forget it. It isn't the rain that bothers me nearly so much as the drivers in California are terrible to begin with and the rain doesn't make them any better. California could finance a lot of new infrastructure if they just issued $500 tickets to anyone driving a grey car that doesn't turn on their lights in the rain. The advent of DRLs have made things worse since now you have all these drivers with only their front DRLs on, with no tail lights. By God, Sir! I believe that you are correct. But why should automobiles be singled out? Why not a $500 fine for all highway users that violate the traffic laws? Like those who were responsible for the 54% of the bicycle - Auto collisions, in which it was possible to assign blame, investigated by the CHP in Los Angeles' County? -- cheers, John B. |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
Drive a grey mini or topo ....
If you do...does insurance cost more ? Local noise advises creosote is not pleased. |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 1:56:56 PM UTC-8, Duane wrote: On 13/01/2017 4:06 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 9:14:37 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 5:12:56 PM UTC-8, Duane wrote: I'm not a big fan of riding in the rain. If it's pouring when I get up for work I'm likely to drive. I won't let the threat of rain stop me so I've been caught in it. I ride my road bike in the rain since I sold the touring bike. I don't really have problems with the 700c 23s that I use. I'm running them at 90 psi and they grip well enough. The real problem with rain for me is the visibility. Both mine and the drivers. As for freezing rain, forget it. It isn't the rain that bothers me nearly so much as the drivers in California are terrible to begin with and the rain doesn't make them any better. When you turn on the news and 20 minutes after the rain starts you have crashes on every freeway in the entire area you get the idea. And then Google Maps will route cars around the wrecks on side streets that are not meant for anything over 20 mph and they will attempt to drive at 40 mph. I drive down a hill and stop at the light at the bottom and two cars slide into the intersection and it's only by the grace of God that no one was in the way. And THIS right in front of the Sheriff's department. I'm going to ride in this sort of thing without 3 feet of armor around me? So is the drought over? I've been off my bike (except on rollers) since a storm on Wednesday that dropped a foot of snow. On the roadways, its mostly packed into mounds since we don't have good snow removal in the PDX. I'd ride in on my studs, but it would put me on the roadways right next to the cars. It's too deep to ride (even with a fat bike) on the side paths. So much for the bike share bikes. http://image.oregonlive.com/home/oli...0d798225cd.JPG Riding home at the start of the storm on Tuesday evening, I was getting snow down my throat, which I hate. If it were like this in PDX on a regular basis, I'd move. I'm looking forward to rain in the city and snow in the mountains, where it belongs. Blue bird ski day on Sunday! Sounds like a typical fall day in Québec. g Don't move, get XC skis and snow shoes. I feel like a dope because I got ride of all my XC equipment, which was collecting dust after switching to downhill. Anyway, snow never hangs around for more than a week at a time -- ten days tops, so its not a place where you can easily switch from riding to skiing or snow-shoeing. By next Tuesday or Wednesday, I'll be riding in slop and gravel. - I prefer downhill but XC is certainly cheaper. We've been going through this heavy freeze - thaw - rain - heavy freeze cycle for a while now. The result is ice everywhere. We had 5c and rain Thursday and last night it was -22c. Ice and high winds make it tough to do anything. I've been mostly doing the gym or the trainer lately. -- duane |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
duane
goo.gl/TFUdbb RBC RBC ! goo.gl/lA9fzd goo.gl/VyG6MW $180 11/15-4/15 water n trash MTB n open road |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:56:47 -0500, Radey Shouman
wrote: Coyotes are well established themselves on Cape Cod. They're snacking on shih-tzus and moggies. Much bigger than they were in their original range, give them a few hundred generations and there will be wolves again. Could be coywolves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:48:19 -0800 (PST), Doug Landau
wrote: And coyotes do NOT look like a wolf. Huh?!? Tom they both look like a german shepherd, just a bit bigger Well, coyotes and wolves have some similarity in appearance but also some distinctive differences that are pretty easy to spot. Ditto the various subspecies of wolves. And both coyotes and wolves look quite a bit different than a German shepherd. |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
goo.gl/PrJVwj goo.gl/E6WP6R goo.gl/PrJVwj during the rain event, quakes in the valley of SF and below were not occurring. Quakes over at the edge near the N in Nevada, at Hawthorne goo.gl/20kzS2…replacing the Black Desert swarm as the mega pool's margin under Yellowstone moves south prob a result from fracking with water runoff n weight relief, quakes began as above. Heavy stuff, water. |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 7:57:25 PM UTC-5, DATAKOLL MARINE RESEARCH wrote:
goo.gl/PrJVwj goo.gl/E6WP6R goo.gl/PrJVwj during the rain event, quakes in the valley of SF and below were not occurring. Quakes over at the edge near the N in Nevada, at Hawthorne goo.gl/20kzS2…replacing the Black Desert swarm as the mega pool's margin under Yellowstone moves south prob a result from fracking with water runoff n weight relief, quakes began as above. Heavy stuff, water. Larger and more smaller reservoirs….beats the Wall, right ? but priorities are fencing MX and porking money. Lieb ? can the canal system run backwards into the desert while Colorado reservoirs n Lake Mudd fill ? |
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58% of California is in Heavy Drought.
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