>--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Inkwell" <inkwell_01@...> wrote:
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>> So the horns are gone now? [:-?]
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>No, those go all the way to the bone. ;)
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They're just point up the right way now... ;-)
>> Glad to hear you made it back without melting down.
>> (The heat shouldn't have been too much of a problem -
>> after all - you were being.......air cooled!)
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>It was only bothersome because I wear heavy jeans, an armored jacket, gloves, steel-toed boots and a full face helmet, which can get quite uncomfortable when even the wind coming at you is like something from a blast furnace. And to add to that, I'd had to squeeze my (now bandaged) head back into the helmet and travel for a little over four hours with no pain medication, and did I mention it was almost rush hour time?
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I've done trips in 42oC (107oF) on the bike, it is not pleasurable. You know it is hot when you think "I'm dying of heat in here..." and flip open your visor, only to find the air outside is painfully hot in comparison, so you close your visor again. Or unzipping your jacket because you are drowning in sweat, but the hot blast coming in is worse than the personal sauna...
>Yeah, I like heat, but this pure blistering furnace we've been dealing with is even starting to bother _me_!
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Can't complain on the southern part of the globe, we've been dropping down to ~5o above freezing, so quite mild winter really. No snow, so no skiing... Play it smart if you're in the hot spots - Australia had horror fires a few years ago, and California had a bad dose too - even us dragons don't like living _in_ the fire! Keep your cool when the weather is hot.
Scrapper, Black Dragon, who's well versed with motorcycling and when the weather is hot, you're hot; when it's cold, you're cold...
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