There is nothing like a Autumn morning, you wake up, start the bike and head down the road, the sun is just coming up and baths the world in that golden glow. The temperature in early Autumn varies with hot and cold days so your body has yet to acclimate to the climate change. Your blood is running thin and free through your body and has not had time to thicken into that crude oil consistency it has around January and February.
You hit the back roads, the air is fresh and all is right with the world, then you enter a main road, the speed of the bike increases and the wind picks up, you start wishing you were wearing your chaps. The cold starts to saturate the gloves. You cruise along at 50mph and see a bike coming the other way, the rider is wearing a light leather jacket and running without chaps also, he looks miserable. this makes you start to wonder, I don't feel that bad yet, but do I look that miserable also? You wave to him as he passes, he doesn't respond, he rides by stiff, eyes glazed over and face red. No...he must have been out longer.
You start wishing you had more gear on, but no...you need to acclimate...you need to get the body ready for the upcoming winter. You cannot yet switch over fully to the cold weather gear and you are in no rush to do so. Switching now means you will be colder later, switching now means the cold gear will become a fixture from now on, switching now means you have surrendered summer
and none of us want to do that...
yet.
klay
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