Seasonal Affective Disorder! That's gotta be it. Right? There has to be a psychological explanation for us northern folk that can't ride our motorcycles in the winter!
We've been having some arctic cold spells in northern New Hampshire off and on over the past month, and I'm actually surprised that I hadn't had my usual stare-at-my-motorcycle-in-the-garage moment until this past week. But man, this time it hit me hard. Think about the sad man staring at his beautiful black Honda VTX 1300 in the garage with really sad violin music in the background. Maybe show the scene in black and white with Italian or French subtitles.
Now I actually do know a couple people that suffer from the real form of S.A.D. Most of these people could do with some outside winter sports fun in my opinion. But I'm not a psychologist, so maybe my advice shouldn't be taken all that seriously. Apologies to them if my humorous attempt at the plight of the motorcycle rider's winter blues makes them angry.
Maybe the S.A.D. motorcycle version hit me harder since my girlfriend and I have only gone out for a snowshoe hike once this winter. The super-cold arctic chill coerced me to stay indoors on certain days.
Might try cross country skiing again, but need to find a less-steep place to try it and get some practice, since our usual trail area has some pretty steep hills. And the less I fall on my ass the more likely I'll be to try the cross country ski stuff in the future.
Just a few more months...
We'll have to do some skiing. I know places. ;)
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