Autumn Driving

It's well into Autumn here with cold (for us anyway!) and windy weather. However, I still love to get out in my Speedster! My daughter, Elizabeth, was down from Town this weekend and here is a video of us out on the road.

Anybody else got some similar footage?

Regards, Mike

Looks like fun, Mike. We're planning to go to England next year, may be cruising some of the same roads.

Give us a bleep for when you're coming over. We can probably get together if I'm in England.

Regards, Mike

Nice cruise Mike. Y'all did look a bit chilly, though.

Gotta get a camera with video capability. It was a lovely sunny day in the high 60's today and I really should capture a cruise through the tidal marshes on video.

Lane, it's shot on a Kodak Mini Zm1 that I bought back in Summer. It was

Michael!

LOVED that video! Reminded me of the ride from Cork down to Kinsale, Ireland along the coast. Must have been a bit nippy, but that's part of the fun of driving these cars in Autumn, isn't it?

Glad you're having fun with it!

gn

Gee Mike, what nicely manicured paws you have! ;)

~WB

Ha! Nice vid. Lower 60s and sunny today. After moving a new couch into the LR, cruised Bridget few miles up to the deli for lunch. Didn't shoot video. Maybe tomorrow. That's the day she get's a final fuel top-off with some Stabil, 'cause there's not gonna be too many more days like this, and because I've work to do on her.

Mike, nice Vid, but your on the wrong side of the road:)

Some people would say I'm always on the wrong side of the road!

Regards, Mike

Mike,

The gauntlet gloves remind me of the ones that I got from my son's cousins over in Germany for riding my BMW motorcycle. They might look funny to us here in the US but they really work great.

BTW, I've still got mine!!!

Take care,

Kelly (Cohibra45)

Kelly, they are of course motorcycle gloves. I usually have a soft, leather pair of Dent's gloves on. However, they only come to my wrists. So in the winter I put gauntlets on. One of these days, I must see if Dents make a gauntlet! These motor-cycle ones are a little stiff. I like driving on clear, crisp Winter days - snow or no snow! A pair of insulated Carharrt's make life ok!

Florida? No gloves needed there! Like So-Cal..........

Regards, Mike

Love the snow picture. Add some Christmas lights or something and make a Christmas card out of it.

I lived in "Southern" Maryland (Owings/North Beach/Chesapeake Beach)for 18 years and it got fairly cool there in the winter. I got my BMW in 1993 and rode it almost every day to work...........around 18 miles one way. I put over 6000mi that first year.

The coldest day I rode was 18*F. The faring worked well, but the tops of my thighs got numb with the cold. Of course, I was wearing thermal unders with blue jeans over. I also had a full face pull over that extended down the neck tucked in the leather jacket. The hands were perfectly covered by the mirror farings..........but it was still cold that morning. By the afternoon when I got off work, it was a great, clear 50*F. ;-) I rode the back roads all the way to Edgewater and over to Annapolis for a beer at my favorite watering hole.

Take care,

Kelly

Uh oh, another Kelly from MD! Welcome to the madness, and nice video Michael!

hey Kelly,
Sounds like you are another "blue fingers" rider! I rode to work on a motorcycle every day for 32 years. As I got older, the windshields got slightly larger and the sweaters got a little heavier and the gloves got a lot better, but those damn office worker trousers never got any warmer!

For everyone who thinks southern Cal is always bathed in sunshine, I am here to tell you that many freeways run along the bottom of the canyons and in winter, before the sun gets down there the "chill factor" at 70 MPH is easily below freezing. It was a true measure of your enthusiasm for the ride!

I kept reminding folks that those stories about the motorcycle gangs riding along with "200 pounds of hot steel between their legs" was pure B.S. It was more realisticly like a frigid artic wind blowing directly up your crotch!

Giday, Mike. I'm pretty much a computer klutz and I'm hoping I was able to post this lame little youtube video I managed to upload recently. It is a poor production of an Autum tour we took upon getting home with the Speedster. Near Ottawa, Canada in late September, 2010. We had beautiful video of spectacular scenes in Colorado etc. but can't seem to get them up to Youtube. Regards...
Dave Stroud

David - looks like it was a beautiful day for a drive! Funny how it seems that the world looks so much better when viewed through the windshield of your Speedy!

And here's nicer one just after coming out of a tunnel in Colorado.
Can't get the longer version up on Youtube though.
Dave Stroud

Nov 13th. I'm in front of camera car. Highway 9 climb onto Skyline from Saratoga. The last warm weekend...

Nice driving videos! Thanks for sharing. I LOVE driving my car on windy, scenic roads - through mountains, over moors, along the coast, whatever! I love having the car ON the road. I'm NOT a Car Show type (though it's always interesting to see what other people have done) - I guess that's reflected in the fact that I have a lower standard of finish than you guys. But driving my car, I LOVE that!

Thanks again for sharing. I'm Over-Seas just now and can only pine for getting my Speedster out.

Regards, Mike.