Riding in Hail!

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Sev · #11 Unread post by **Sev** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:00 pm

Hail... scares me.

I'll avoid it if at all possible.

#12 Unread post by **Skier** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:06 pm

roscowgo wrote: Kind of like having a few hundred kids with slingshots pelt you with cold gravel.

Yep. I stupidly decided to only wear a shirt under my riding suit, and Cordura Nylon is a lot thinner than your average leather jacket. I think I still have welts!

High_Side · Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:40 am

I've been caught in hail a couple of times, the worst was about 12 years ago. Three of us were just back into Alberta from the States when it hit, and not only was it like marbles, there was so much of it that we couldn't see. We managed to get stopped at the side of the road and I was trying to cover the tank of my Ninja with my leather clad self when my buddy started screaming at me. He had a light jacket under his rain suit and was getting the snot beat out of him by the hail! I was laughing my @ss off as we managed to get 1/8th of a mile up the road before we rode right out of it. Yet another good reason to wear leather....

skoebl · #14 Unread post by **skoebl** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:02 pm

High_Side wrote: Yet another good reason to wear leather....

I'm lucky. My jacket is like 2 inches thick with all the padding and what not.

Not like it would hail in San Diego though.

It would rain and hail and all that good stuff quite a bit where I lived in the Northern California Valley (near Redding, for those true nor-cal people out there). We'd get marble sized hail and me, being the bright little child that I was, would go out and see how much I could tolerate before it became too much (I would also try, to the best of my ability, to hit the hailstones with a stick). I guess that explains a little about me now