Hello,
Given the summer period, this could be nice to show off a bit :

Gothenburg, Europe Pretty far North - 20050708 - 28 Degrees Celcius (in the shade of course)

J
/ Too hot to take pictures !

Approximately 60 nm north of Hammerfest/Norway:

Pretty warm (more than 40 degrees (Fahrenheit)), cloudy und some slight waves and slight swell.
But yesterday we had 24 hours of sunshine

Nice! It's been 40 C here (Texas) for a couple of days now. I thought my tires were melting to the road!
fatstring

40 c is what we should have here in Provence, or at least 35. This year only 25 due to a rather strong north wind.
So a good temperature for riding. The only thing is that I bought a summer air-flow jacket and I am cold at night!
Wilfrid from Avignon

Kia Ora

Currently 10 Degress Celcius here at the bottom of the world, high of 14 expected today.
The sun is out, great day for a ride.

C
"Ever noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac"!

Provence? Does it normally get 40 c there? I thought only Texas and Africa got that rotten hot!!
fatstring

OK you won let's say 35 to 38
Maybe it doesn't last the whole summer but one month at least.
Wilfrid from Avignon

38...That's hardly even hot!
You don't have much air conditioning over there do you? I didn't see hardly any in Germany. Here in Texas every building has huge air conditioners that are on all the time. We went to the movies the other day and it was 37 c outside and 18 c inside!
fatstring

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You don't have much air conditioning over there do you? I didn't see hardly any in Germany

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Air-co is good for little girls, Europeans are tough.

Yeah, you don't see much 40 c in Europe either. And oddly enough, anything over about 31 c and I do in fact turn into a whining little girl.
fatstring

Ride Safe Y'all

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you don't see much 40 c in Europe either

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I think thats why Fahrenheit invented this strange ohter scale, just to make people happy having temperatures above 30 sometimes.

And even if we have less than 40 C (), we have some days with more than 40 mm of rain, so we don't have to care about cleaning our bikes, this is done by nature

We just went for a whole month with no rain at all. My bike was very dirty!
fatstring

today its 25 c in Munich, Germany. It`s windy, sunny mixed with clouds, but no rain.

next week I go to Italy Senigalia, they talk about its 38 c in Rome!!!!!!!

hot like hell
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-Fullspeed, not half fast-

I took half a day off to ride the bike and to finally make some pictures. Left home in a beautiful sky with some clouds but 22°C.

The plan was to run a +200km tour from Gothenburg to Trollhättan (southpoint of the biggest lake in Sweden)and back via Stenungssund (Westcoast) and then along the coastline ride home.

When I was just approaching Kungälv, less than 20km from my home I saw big ugly clouds inland and thought well maybe I should not head inland, so I turned back for an alternative route southwest along the coastline near Gothenburg.

But ofcourse the clouds followed me, so I decided to just turn around again and go home. The bike was in the garage for like 5 minutes when it started pissing .

Urrgh, mostly the clouds come over sea and get heavier over land. The coastline itself is pretty dry. Now the clouds came from inland and headed West, peculiar!

Anyway, I am not happy
Joris

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to finally make some pictures

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you can take some nice indoor pictures for the girl's calendar instead

for those who don't know - last year we made a pinup-calendar for the girls and whoever wants to may send a picture of himself and his W to me for this years' edition - of course we are only interrested in the bike...

W 650 : buy the bike - and get the friends for free

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