Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2012 17:51
By bad Uncle Monkey
We have been very fortune here in Saskatchewan being blessed with an unusually mild winter.
With the temperatures hovering at or above freezing many of us who hibernate the winter away have been busy working getting caught up on things, building bikes, clean garages.
But this is the Great White North so it was only a matter of time before the other boot fell. As the mercury creeps down to -40 and more for the next few days everything grinds to a frozen halt. It is an unbelievable cold that chills through the bone.
My wife asks me why we are still living here and all I can say at least it is not as cold as north of Grand Prairie, up into Alaska and the Canadian Territories. This cold snap has many grumbling, as we haven’t had the luxury of three months of winter to acclimatize us for this cold.
For me it means all work on my bike has stopped. My trusty propane heater can’t even warm the air enough to allow my florescent lamps to come on, designed to work to minus 20, let alone warm my tools enough so they don’t freeze to my hands.
It means passing my evening in the house tinkering away at left over projects like finish repairing my electric guitars and making heated riding jackets and pants for when winter finally gives way to spring.
I had hoped to have the mock up on my bike finished by now and the bike disassembled for paint but Mother Nature put a stop to it.
The good news is that my Custom Chrome account has been unlocked but the down turn of the American economy is very prevalent in the number of parts that are out of stock and discontinued. This cold weather does afford me time to contact fellow builders and suppliers to track down in stock parts - JP Cycle has my bars in stock and a fellow builder has my extended rear axle.
At the end of the night all that is left is to pour a strong Jack and Coke and read here what others have to say.
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