I am but try and ignore it. Part of what drives me to ride in the cold, write about the experience, and photograph what I see on the way is a desire to more fully appreciate how my aging bones are engaging the world.

More and more aging is becoming a theme in much of what I do whether fighting winter or trying to tie my shoes…

Thinking “that gator could eat a Vespa” no doubt. Checked out your blog earlier this evening and your assessment of my reaction to seeing Clyde Butcher’s work was accurate.

So, Harley or Triumph in your future???

Robert,

That sounds like the best plan I’ve heard in awhile. Have a great time! Sorry we didn’t get a chance to talk at the Moto Swap Meet on Sunday.

I hate to think that age has something to do with my winter blues but my body definitely doesn’t respond as well to the cold. I feel the need to push harder to do things.

Spring can’t come fast enough for me at the moment.

Hero? Not me. I’m just a poor old Vespa rider.

Makes me think about what pushed me into riding in the winter. I suppose it was Gary Charpentier’s Rush Hour Rambling blog — he was an early moto-blogger and riding in some serious winter stuff, and Dan Bateman, author of Musings of an Intrepid Commuter. Dan really supplied some of the technical riding advice I needed to get my head around what I was getting my body, and scooter, into in the winter. So I suppose I just passed on their gift to you and Dom. Funny how the world works.

Every time I would look at the road and wonder whether I could manage to ride I would think, for a few seconds at least, how much easier the decision would be if I had a URAL. But then I would come to my senses and go inside and brew a cup of tea and scratch the dog’s head.

But who knows what the future might bring right?

Keep in mind too, your/we/all of us are aging. And as such you/we/all of us shall experience weather variants far more than we have in the past.

IN the interim; keep writing for us the over viewer and keep doing your photography
for us the reader of this blog.