Newsflash: Why Phoenix is actually COOL.

desert_max · Feb 8, 2015

Riding season. For many, I'm guessing the riding currently consists of memories, magazines and parts catalogs. I can relate. I lived in New England (MA) for years and, boy, are those guys getting hammered this winter.

Skip diagonally across the continent to southern Arizona and you'd find that, lately, we've been having a string of 80F+ temperatures - in early February. Ten to fifteen degrees above normal even for us.

And, yes, we're taking advantage of it. A riding buddy and I headed east on Saturday 2/7 and had a nice run to an old stage stop. Had a burger and a beer and doubled back. Nice run. Nice weather.

Contrary to prevailing opinion, Phoenix is COOL.

CaptainKyle · Feb 8, 2015

Glad you had fun. I have got in a couple nice rides over the weekend to.

DMAN999 · Feb 9, 2015

^ Screw you guys !!!!!! :rofl_200:

It's a whopping 12 F and snowing here right now.

The Beekeeper · Feb 9, 2015

Couple of sharp Maxes out on a beautifull day!..............I can only dream.......:biglaugh:......Tom.

old timer · Feb 9, 2015

Over 50 inches of snow in the last 2 weeks...don't tell me , deep down , you don't miss this...:jerk it:

jfeagins · Feb 9, 2015

DISTANT memories for me too. But it seems like only YESTERDAY I was flying ALONG ON MY 09 on a 175 mile trek across parts of my favorite MO 90, MO 112, MO 86, AR 62 AR 23 highways - oh, wait...........IT WAS YESTERDAY. :biglaugh:

I spent Saturday (high of 75ish) putting new rubber under the front of my Honda Rune, and doing it's annual brake fluid change outs, etc... Between that, and cleaning it, my car, and my truck, I ran out of daylight before I knew what hit me, but Sunday was between me and the 09!!! :rocket bike: