[Mgs] wanted

[Hans Duinhoven]

Hi Larry,

Last year's ride was cold - temps of -2 deg C, but with a speed of some 30 
Mph and wearing an open crash helmet like we did in the sixties and 
seventies, makes the chill factor up to minus 20.
One of the mopeds even suffered of a frozen carburettor.

http://www.buienradar.nl/sneeuw.aspx shows the current rain - snow radar.
The orange type is snow - the grey - blueish is lght rain to heavy showers 
when dark blue.
This is typical Dutch winter weather and makes the traffic suffer of 
constant dangerous slippery roads.
I live in the mid-west part of the Netherlands.
Yesterday the daylight temps were just above freezing, but the rain started 
in the morning with icy rain - one could hear it twinkle.
Later in the early evening it all turned into snow.
As typical Dutch winter weather is like this, loads of salt is spread over 
the roads, in order to fight roads becoming very icy and dangerous.
The coming week there is not a lot chaning in this pattern, so I have to 
protect my moped against the salt, if I'm going to be there.

Have an impression of last year's ride - over 400 Puch mopeds were part of 
this biggest Puch event in the Netherlands 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0svcKKU0TfE

Cheers,

Hans - preparing his 1973 Puch for the winter ride



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven at planet.nl>
Cc: <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] wanted


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> From: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven at planet.nl>
> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:26 AM
> To: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>; "Richard Ewald"
> <richard.ewald at gmail.com>; <wspohn4 at aol.com>
> Cc: <mgs at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] wanted
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> Cheers,
>
> Hans
> next weekend cold hands ride with my 1973 Puch moped
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>
> Hans, by the look of the picture you sent me a while back, I don't think 
> you
> guys looked like you were enjoying that cold ride.  By the middle of next
> week, we are supposed to have a high temp of -10 C.  I think my moped will
> be staying in the garage.
>
> Have fun -- if that's possible in this weather.  ;-)
>
> Larry