General Music Chat

My favorite seasons in this order. 1) Fall 2) Winter 3) Spring 4) Summer
Understand I live in Kansas City. Each season is very different. Summer is always very hot and humid. Spring has crazy ups and downs in temperatures and the most violent Spring storms. Winters can be cold and windy, usually not too much snow except the last few Winters have been rough. Fall is GORGEOUS in Kansas City. Probably one of the best places to live in the USA in the Fall is K.C.
I'm 3/4 Russian so I don't like hot weather. I'm right at home in cold weather. I wilt in the Summer.
What are your favorite season(s)?

I am also a 1/2 Russian and 1/2 Irish. Two grandparants came here from Russia, two from Ireland. Family arguments could get pretty intense.

I prefer spring, summer, fall ....and I moved back from California because I missed winter. Now that was really stupid. I have no idea what I was thinking since winters are getting harder and harder in the Midwest.

But winter does give you something to do, that being trying to stay warm. Summers are nice when the humidity isn't too intense and it stays below 85. It really gets soggy when that Southern hot air comes up here. I don't know how people can live in the high humidity South.

75 on a motorcycle usually helps avoid the heat. So I spend most of my summers riding.

The Four Seasons!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYZBVbifh8

And The Four Seasons!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ

I like spring and fall the best for the same reasons. I love riding and the temperatures are perfect for it, although wet fallen leaves in the fall, can be a bit hazardous. In summer, getting caught in traffic can quickly turn my bike, into an easy bake oven. So I keep it in the country during summer and not too often on the parkway. I'm excited today I'll be working with the leader from the new band I'm in programming drum tracks and will be taking the bike. Fun there and fun back, makes even the more mundane things enjoyable.

Slacker what do you ride?

Summer! Summer! Summer! and Summer, in that order

I live in Cali, but we do feel the seasons if not really see them.

I love all of them, of course, I prefer Summer, but I really like what all of them have to give.

Spring - all the pretty flowers, the bird songs in the morning, the sun is still up when I leave work.

Summer - Faire season!

Fall - The stores start selling pomegranate's, pumpking pie, Samhain/Halloween!

Winter - Big Bonus season! NAMM! Rainy season!

Chaeya

Summer! Summer! Summer! and Summer, in that order

amen

Deer season, duck season, dove season, squirrel season

lalong,

My favorite bike was a V65 V4 sportbike. Then I went to a Virago (Very much a snail bike) because the insurance was far cheaper.
I also have a Suzuki I rode around town but it backfired last year and wouldn't start again.
I have 3 bikes that run and two that I robbed the front ends from. One to build a Chevy truck trike that would haul my amplifiers, guitars, and my dog. I've never had a license to drive a car, so I ride all winter when it isn't too icy. Bikes only in the winter since trikes skate.

I used the other front end on a stripped down trike construction site. Google > Slacker G < and you will find a Roadart page which is a trike construction web site.

The three wheel scooter has a cockpit in it so it's like a convertible. The 53 Chevy truck fenders make up the rear, and the truck hood is the front. It's rather wild looking, but I have no way to post pics. I think of it as my camper. I emailed Sans some pics of it. It doesn't look quite like it sounds.

It ended up on a JC Whitney catalog cover years ago in a shot of main street Sturgis during the rally and races.

I prefer riding bikes, but my dog and guitar like to go with most of the time so I have to sneak out at night to ride my bike. A trike is so much harder to handle than a bike because of its geometry, you are driving a triangle and any variation on either rear wheel pulls the front end. So it isn't very relaxing. Quite a few states won't even license them or insure them for that reason.

Now thats a tough one,,
Winter, I can feel the snow freezing my backside off,, while some young vixen is just getting her knees cold.
Spring, I can feel the mud under my backside,, while some young vixen is just getting her toes dirty.
Summer, now yer talkin,, I can feel the waves sloshing over my backside as some young vixen gets to feel the soft sand on her butt.
Fall, well let's just LEAVE that one alone,,, time to get a room.

I like winter in Cali because it gives a nice cool down reprive from summer, which can be quite hot. Spring is nice since it does induce lovely blooms all over and the swallows od Capistrano return. Summers are great 'cuz each day is the same. You can plan anything in the summer and expect perfect weather. Fall is pretty much an extension of summer.
I do, however, miss "real" weather

Yeah the trikes look cool, I always wondered about that. The steering surface is limited to the front tire, so it’s got to be really tough to turn at high speeds as well? I hadn’t even considered the influence the rear wheels would have on the steering. Last year I saw advertisements for reverse trikes, although NJ bureaucracy has probably gotten the better of the idea. I haven’t seen any since. I had a Suzuki SV 650 for about a year, although the torque on the Suzuki was pretty amazing. The controls were way to precise and tight, and I found nothing relaxing about a sport bike. I have a road king and a softail, although since getting the road king, the softail barely gets touched.

I was out riding yesterday and it’s supposed to be nicer today, waited all winter for weather like this.

Slacker so the other’s can see, I referenced your web pics:




Cool stuff definitely unusual. It’s very rare to see anything like that on the road. Probably for the reasons you stated.

Fall is my favorite. Maybe it is some brain chemical or hormone imbalance, but I'm more emotionally stable around then and the weather is better.

Spring barely exists in Michigan. Most years we go straight from winter to Summer. When we do have some spring weather it is very erratic. The saying in our state is, "if you don't like the weather just wait five minutes."

Summer is too hot.

Winter is too cold.

Deer season, duck season, dove season, squirrel season

Got a good duck hunting joke (sorry if I posted this before here):

A hillbilly is duck hunting in Oklahoma. A game warden who hates hillbillies sees him and pays the hillbilly's duck blind a visit. "Mind if I inspect some of your ducks?" asks the game warden. "Go ahead" says the hillbilly. Game warden picks up one of the ducks looks it over carefully, then sniffs its ass. "Hey this duck's not from Oklahoma, it's from Kansas. Have you got a Kansas duck hunting license?" The hillbilly reaches into a pocket and pulls out his Kansas license. The game warden picks up another duck, inspects it carefully, sniffs its ass and says "Hey this duck's not from Oklahoma, it's from Arkansas. Have you got an Arkansas license?" The hillbilly reaches into a second pocket and pulls out an Arkansas license. The game warden thinks he's going to get him on the next duck, picks one up, inspects it and sniffs its ass. "Hey this duck's not from Oklahoma, it's from South Carolina, have you got a South Carolina license?" The hillbilly reaches into a third pocket and pulls out a South Carolina duck hunting license. "Hey where the hell are you from anyway?" asks the game warden. The hillbilly turns around, drops his pants, points to his ass and says "You tell me!"