British Columbia Chat

[old-n-slow]

Sorry to hear about the wet. We had a decent day over here. That seems to often be the case, that you folks are wetter than us. Vancouver (traffic) in the sun is bad enough, Vancouver in the rain has to be the pits as far as MC riding goes.

[putput]

saturday ws nice ,I took a ride up from mission to maple ridge along some winding back roads across an old dam and took the farry over to fort langley,I had a licenced rider to follow so it was all good.We had some sunshine and fort langley is a great spot to have a coffee and watch all the bikes roll down the main street.I will work on the parking lot stuff after work this week ,I just had to get out for a day.

[blues2cruise]

putput, that's a great ride, isn't it? In Fort Langley, did you go to the coffee shop with the book store? It's quite good.

On Saturday I just went to Langley and back and made an effort to practice "smoooooth" upshifting. When I finally take a passenger, I don't want any helmet bonking.

[putput]

Fort Langley-We stopped for coffee at that old 50's style restraunt on the main street .

[blues2cruise]

My bike had a squeak that I knw should not be there so I took it to the dealer yesterday. I bussed back there this morning to pick it up safe in the knowledge that the weatherman never lies.
It hasn't stopped raining all day....this is what is called cloudy with an occasional shower....hardy, har, har.
Since I was out anyway, and just the short ride home in the rain would make the bike grimy, I decided to go for a short ride to Coquitlam and have coffee with a friend.
This is when I discovered that my so-called waterproof boots are indeed not waterproof. At least it's not cold today.
Then I went to a motorcycle shop looking for tank bag that can fit my tank. The one my friend told me about was gone. I will keep looking. One of these days I will find one that fits.

After I came home I washed and polished my bike so that it looks showroom new.
I think I'll take transit tomorrow and save my nice polish job for the weekend.

[old-n-slow]

forcast for tomorrow looks good at the moment. http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weathe ... BC0308.htm

Friday might not be so great though.

[blues2cruise]

old-n-slow, it looks like your weather forecast for today was right. It was mostly a nice day here today.

I took advantage of it and "found" errands to do...not by the most direct route, though.

putput, I was at the Motor Vehicle Office today. If you are planning on taking your road test anytime soon, you better get your appointment booked. The examiners are really busy with road tests and it can take a couple of months to get an appointment. Sure was a lot of bikes down there yesterday. Come to think of it, there was a lot driving school cars, too.

Fingers crossed for dry weather on Sunday. I want to try to line up a ride.

[Buelligan]

I'm beginning to wonder if this weather is ever going to get better, I think we should rename it the Wet Coast!
I went out yesterday and bought new raingear, my old stuff just isn't keeping me dry anymore.
Is it just me or is this the worst Spring we've ever had???

[blues2cruise]

June is notoriously a bad month around here. Shouldn't plan anything that is dependent on good weather until after July 15.

[old-n-slow]

If you have been watching the news, it seems that the prairies aren't fairing any better. Between the floods in southern Alberta and the farms in Manitoba/Saskatchewan having to hire special floatation type equipment to seed their crops, we may be looking at a rather bad year.

I picked up some new rain gear too. Best insurance you can get. Haven't had to use it yet. Ha Ha mind you the summer is only beginning.