Last ride of fall

[KansasKawboy]

Today is the last day of fall and I haven't riden in a few weeks and they are forecasting another artic blast and snow later in the week so I wanted to ride. On ADV we have a thread in the central region called Kc area Photo Tag, the last photo hadn't been tagged and people didn't think it would be for a while. A challenge if I ever heard one :D: and I got some Hippo Hands that needed a trial ride. The temp was 28 not to bad

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The bike has snow around it,

http://kansaskawboy.smugmug.com/photos/439967323_xjqJR-M.jpg

the driveway has ice, not good.

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But I wasn't going to let that stop me, so I geared up and duck walked the bike up the right side where there wasn't a lot of ice. I got the tag of the John Wornall House Museum

http://www.wornallhouse.org/index.html

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and then headed home. The Christmas shoppers were scaring me. It was spitting a little snow and some of them looked at me like I was crazy, if they only knew, I was going bing-bing the whole ride :D:.
The Hippo Hands rock :wootrock: wearing summer gloves when it's 28 degrees is a good thing.

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They are tough too, when I got home I was trying to get the right line to pull in th drive and not fall on the ice and I stopped in the street on a slope and Team Green decided to take a nap the only sign that they had hit the ground was some salt that wiped right off. I didn't think about a pic til the bike was up and parked. Sorry.

[ridingAK]

Good for you KK! It is really cool that you got out and rode today. Great report, too. :thumbsup:

[Luna Tique]

Good for you KK! It is really cool that you got out and rode today. Great report, too. :thumbsup:
+1 :clapping: Take a bow KK

[Astir]

I have to tell you, if my driveway had looked like that... :eek:

Those hippohands look great!

[indianscout]

Ding-ding KK, way to go!!

[letsxplor]

You're tougher that me, KK! 28*... brrrr....

Good going!:wootrock:

[sweptwingnut]

Great report KK!! That is starting to look like one seriously tricked out KLR.

+1 on the Hippo Hands. :thumbsup:

[KansasKawboy]

With the Hippo Hands I turned the heated grips on while I finished gearing up and shut them off a block from home and ran them a few minutes after I got off the bike for the picture. All the while I was wearing summer gloves.

[ridingAK]

That is fantastic, and something I should look into. I have a real problem with cold hands, even with heated grips. The rest of me is fine down into the 20's but my hands don't like it!

[KCDakar]

Great Tag KK!
And thank you for posting up!:thumbup:

[Unforgiven]

Very cool! I've never seen anything like those before but of course this is Florida.

[KansasKawboy]

With that cold weather your having you may want to invest in some. :lol: