2023: What did you do to/with your NC700/NC750 today?

[the Ferret]

Weather forecast last night was for 63F this morning. Leaving an hour before sunrise I ride the NC 42 miles for a breakfast then rode it 58 miles to work and home. What a beautiful show in the sky this morning with fiery reds, yellows, and orange. I don't know what I was thinking when I geared up to leave but I wore mesh jacket and pants and mesh summer gloves. After 30 miles I was COLD and don't laugh too hard, I switched on the heated grips. When I left work for home it was 86F and the choice of clothing was more appropriate. I can't wait for fall to arrive. The wife and I have a place rented in the Smokies during the third week of October, Come on!!!!

We have a poll going right now over on the CB forum re: perfect temp for riding. 65-70 degrees f is currently leading with 80 % of respondents. 75-85 f is second with 15% and 85-95 f has 5 %

I'm in the 75-85 camp. I'm getting ready to leave for my daily ride in about 25 mins. Had to wait for it to warm up. Supposed to be 76 degrees now.

 

[davidc83]

Dang it. Absolutely nothing. I have been up in Indiana for the past 10 days visiting my ill son. Driving home to Florida tonight though. I have been seeing all these motorcycles and curvy roads and missing my bikes. I still have 1.5 week's on my leave of absence from work. If household general gives ok, I may pack up a bike next week and go camping for a couple of days. Never been to Myrtle Beach, so I may go in that direction or close to it...

 

[the Ferret]

74 miles @ 80 degrees and sunny. Getting close to another milestone on the NC. Either tomorrow or Friday I suppose.

 

[the Ferret]

Day 240 .... a 45-mile ride to lunch with Mrs Ferret on her XMax @ 80 degrees and sunny

also turned over another mileage milestone on today's ride

 

[the Ferret]

1st day of fall, a 54 mile early morning ride with Mrs Ferret on her Xmax @ 59 degrees and sunny. Grandkids ball games at 1 and 4 this afternoon.

 

[ewen]

14 Celsius today but no rain so went out on errands and took some back roads.
Most of the roads were covered in mud and cow dung as the farmers are muck spreading. That made the bends more interesting.
Cleaned the bike when home. Tomorrow will prep the car for selling. Don't need it.

 

[dduelin]

I rode the NC to an Aprilia dealer 90 minutes away this AM with two friends. One of them bought a Tuareg 660 recently and it needed a software tweak. While there I demoed a new Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello. Beautiful elegant design but I fear too high maintenance for me. I also rode a V85TT Adventure which was more to my liking. When I got home I told my wife “You should have seen the Italian red head I met on this morning’s ride.”

 

[the Ferret]

I rode the NC to an Aprilia dealer 90 minutes away this AM with two friends. One of them bought a Tuareg 660 recently and it needed a software tweak. While there I demoed a new Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello. Beautiful elegant design but I fear too high maintenance for me. I also rode a V85TT Adventure which was more to my liking. When I got home I told my wife “You should have seen the Italian red head I met on this morning’s ride.”

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Ive not ridden the Mandello or V85 but have ridden 1/2 dozen other Guzzis over the years. I came to the conclusion I am just not Guzzi material.

Id still test ride both models if given the opportunity though.

 

[the Ferret]

52 mile super curvy loop @ 74 degrees and sunny. Great ride today

 

[cornbiker]

I went 'over the hill' via Hwy 17 up to San Jose today for a hang, it was a great ride until I hit the downward side, ended up splitting due to thick weekend traffic. Really a not great road to do it on, lots of bozos, but at least a handful made an attempt to move over a bit for me. Return trip was a piece of cake.

 

[the Ferret]

day 243 .... a 49 mile morning ride under very cloudy skies. They were predicting scattered showers, but they never materialized on my ride. 70 degrees.

 

[Luke’d]

We have a poll going right now over on the CB forum re: perfect temp for riding. 65-70 degrees f is currently leading with 80 % of respondents. 75-85 f is second with 15% and 85-95 f has 5 %

I'm in the 75-85 camp. I'm getting ready to leave for my daily ride in about 25 mins. Had to wait for it to warm up. Supposed to be 76 degrees now.

I will ride in all those temps, but I would probably lean towards 75-85 camp as well.

 

[potter0o]

Brought home flowers on a rainy birthday for the home minister.

 

[mzflorida]

Dang it. Absolutely nothing. I have been up in Indiana for the past 10 days visiting my ill son. Driving home to Florida tonight though. I have been seeing all these motorcycles and curvy roads and missing my bikes. I still have 1.5 week's on my leave of absence from work. If household general gives ok, I may pack up a bike next week and go camping for a couple of days. Never been to Myrtle Beach, so I may go in that direction or close to it...

Best wishes for your son's speedy recovery.

 

[mzflorida]

Brought home flowers on a rainy birthday for the home minister.

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Thank God most of our wives don't read this forum. We'd all have another thing to keep up with. Many more happy birthdays to your wife and I hope she had a great day!

 

[OwlCitizen]

I went 'over the hill' via Hwy 17 up to San Jose today for a hang, it was a great ride until I hit the downward side, ended up splitting due to thick weekend traffic. Really a not great road to do it on, lots of bozos, but at least a handful made an attempt to move over a bit for me. Return trip was a piece of cake.

Are you on the central coast? I live in Seaside now, would love to meet up sometime on a weekend.

 

[WOM123]

A 54 km (33 mile) round trip commute from the outer reaches of Scarborough to downtown Toronto. Usually 2 and sometimes 3 days a week, now that we're partially back in the office. Will continue until the first snowfall, and then it's the GO train all winter. (Dang.)

 

[the Ferret]

Another 49 mile mid morning ride @ 74 degrees and sunny. Weather terrorists are threatening us with heavy rain the next two days.

 

[cornbiker]

Are you on the central coast? I live in Seaside now, would love to meet up sometime on a weekend.

A bit north of Santa Cruz. Don't get out much on the weekend, mostly to avoid all the beach traffic. Usually I ride during the week for lunch runs w/ a couple of other dudes.

 

[the Ferret]

Day 245...rained last night 1/2" and then off and on today, but was able to sneak out for a 40 miler @ 72 degrees under overcast skies on patchy damp roads

Showers also predicted for tomorrow