I can see how some rider could become cocky

[Fargo360]

It was actually a nice day around here so when I got home from work I thought I might try my bike for the first time of the year. The roads were fairly dry around my place and I thought I'd go on a short trip up the road and back. So I push my bike out the driveway through the slush in the gutter, hop on and take off. Things go alright until I turn to go around the block to come home and the next road is about 4" deep of wet snow and slush. I go through it slowly and make it through alright, but am thinking to myself the whole time, "idiot, you could get yourself really freakin' hurt in this crap." So, I get home and think to myself, "I'm sure I'm not the only person in ND who has done this and I saw people in traffic on the way home today so I know they've been dealing with it. Going through this crap once and doing okay could sure make a person cocky enough to think they can always get away with it." Moral of the story, don't go riding in early April in ND.

[Gunslinger]

Fargo what is this "snow" material you speak of?

[Fargo360]

its small ice crystals that fall from the sky, they blanket the ground with a cold mess the reflects the suns light back to the sky and keeps the air cold. When spring comes it starts to melt and becomes a sloppy mess all over the place. i would say it sucks.

[shane-o]

Never seen snow where I am.

What we get here a near bare naked girls parading around the streets and around our beach roads...Now thats hazardous to riding Im telling you




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[MTexile]

Is the Red River dropping yet? How are the levees holding?

[redb1ker]

We say it early on in the class while we are talking about risk awareness. How much risk are you willing to take. It is odd here in Colorado. It snows like hell one day and that afternoon or the next day most of the snow is gone but, it is still kinda cold. Even if the streets are mostly dry there are those wet spots on the street that are in the shade. The become that other cold stuff called ice. I hate minding my own and running across that rogue patch of ice. Can you say "Kodak moment". After almost 2 decades of riding (and finding myself 1/2 way home in a snow storm), I still park the bike when the cold stuff gets taller than the bottom of the front wheel. My big cruiser and the snow don't mix.