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I was trying to lift an engine back into a frame this morning but it is so cold that the cold metal of the engine just sucks the heat out of my hands making it impossible to hold it for any lenght of time...................................it is freeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiingggggggggggg.

I've given up.................hot coffee and a bun I think

Not even attempted any kind of work on the ZXR for the last couple of months. Closest ive come is oiling the chain and ignition barrel. Did have to bleed the brakes on the GF car when we got the first lot of snow a week before christmas, couldnt feel my hands after 10 mins, I inevitably got frustrated and angry cos i was cold, wet, covered in snow, my ability to feel anything diminishing and what i could feel was painful.

just fitted a set of front brake pads to a zxr and even holding tools has left my finger tips numb and painful, f*** this toad

Had to fit a TDC sensor to my pile of toad of car (havent been able to use it since before christmas as it wouldnt start!!), was freeeeeeeezing (-6 i believe!!) although wasn't soo bad when it was time to break out the soldering iron!!

I have about 1 of 6 pistons in each caliper that actually move, but let's face it - It's highly unlikely that I'm going to need sharp front brakes in these conditions!

So it can bloody well wait until we're back close to double figures again...

I'm out on my bike day time (double figures) but come sun down I'm home and bike is under cover, night time low reaches -4 !!

Temp meter for coolant reads 3.4'c in the morning.

Enjoy the Winter lad's - it doesn't last long

Im supposed to be sorting the garage out for several reasons, but alas it is too cold for me to go outside and spend 4hours moving crap about.

ive just sprayed some panels up. done them outside and moved them into my bedroom when they were 'dry'. im now being affected by the fumes...

After warming up a bit and getting my lovely wife out into the cold to help my engine is back in........................... I've got it bolted up now and started on a few of the wiring connections aong with the injectors and clutch cable back on too.................but that is enough.

So I got stuck into cutting a load of firewood..................when I get in from the gym later it'll be feet up and a large glass of whiskey beside a roaring fire

OK OK - beat this. On the drive down to N england a coupe of days ago - 11am in the morning driving past Forfar on the A90 - the temperature (with the sun out) measures -12dec C ( yep - minus 12 in the middle of the day) Now that is real cold.

Of course there is now a backlash against the Met office for not being able to predict the weather (apparently they thought it would be a mild winter) but anyone who races at Knockhill and uses the met office weather forecasts already knew that they are hopeless and wrong more often than right!!!!!

I raced at Knockhill once...................it rained...................a lot..................like all day...............non stop......................and all the local guys were very expert in the wet.................cos it always rains at Knockhill..................I went to the pub.


And I got a long range forcast for the Manx GP the Met office said it will pi55 down for two weeks solid....................so thats alright then

good man!!!!!

dammit tobo, you beat me to it

Blasting down the M6 at 3am yesterday morning.. ambient temp was -6c so dread to think what the windchill @ 70mph brought it too but I only had my Dainaese summer gloves on.

Jesus was i froze when I got in >.<

Still summers just round the corner

I swapped over my swing arm and shock the other day. So cold I couldn't feel my ratchet (sounds like a euphenism now I come to think of it)