AAARRGGHH!

[YELLOPER1L]

I am locked in a desperate battle with my conscience and professionalism against closing my laptop and getting into the leathers and going out for a blast.
It's the hottest day of the year in the UK so far (18 degrees C) and I can hear my bike calling me over the hum of the fans on my laptop. Could I get away with it? Probably. Would I feel guilty? Definitely. Am I going to do it anyway? Oh yes!

Right after I review this drawing...

[craiger527]

I say go for it! One day when your sitting in the old folks home the one thing you will not be saying is "damn I wish I had worked more!"

[S1RR]

So..did you

I rode my SRR to work yesterday, on the the promise of warm weather.
Its a boring commute from Bristol to Swindon on the M4, and it was very cold and foggy at 5am
But the ride home certainly made up for it, as i sliced through the traffic, and took the long way home route through Wiltshire

Jeeees..this bike is awesome.

[YELLOPER1L]

I did indeed! It was a beautiful day and frankly it would have been rude not to.

I ride to work every day no matter what the weather and more often than not it's dull and grey. It makes it a totally different ride whan the sun is out. If I'm working from home the temptation to go out for a quick blast reaches fever pitch until yesterday when I just had to give in to temptation.

[Rainman]

I couldn't resist either. It reached 62 degrees (F) and sunny in Seattle yesterday, and though it started in the upper 30's it was a fantastic day, and even better than the first non-rainy weekend we've had in quite a while.

I leave for work at 4:30 AM (in the dark still) and before the downtown area I have a 4-mile stretch of three lane, one way only, set of "express lanes" with no entrances or exits, so I have it virtually all to myself. Part of it is on the lower level of a long bridge, some in a lower level trench that is out of view, and even more in an enclosed deck like a tunnel. Can you say "hooligan". The "express lanes" are reversed around noon, so after a 10-hour day, I get to ride it back the other way in traffic at 3:00 PM. At least I can enjoy the afternoon light, and when it merges back into the regular freeway, there is the HOV lane where motorcycles are welcome. No lane splitting or lane sharing here, but there are plenty of opportunities to move in and out of the HOV lane at will to overtake traffic. They haven't cracked down on that yet - though coming on other freeways here.

10-hour days? Yeah, I work 4 days a week, (and sometimes from home) so I can be free to ride the other days. Like Yell'er, sometimes my conscience dukes it out whether to ride or get anything else done, and with Spring finally here, guess who's winning.