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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:38 am
by Ladymx
Keep your gravity low. If on a sport bike it means putting weight on the foot pegs, while riding. With practice you'll have great leg and butt muscles. Other wise everyone has some great ideas. listed above already.
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:09 pm
by ronboskz650sr
If you have to ride somewhere, use snopruf on your leathers, and wear a 32 gallon garbage bag underneath your jacket, and another one over your pants/under the chaps or leathers. You can easily make the shapes you need to wear these just like rain gear. Put walmart bags on your feet before you put your boots on. Wear latex gloves under your leather ones. By folding the seams and using duct tape, tou'll be warm and dry, even if your leathers get soaked, and the snopruf will shed most of that.
I actually work in a downpour, very often, with just the top part of this outfit over my regular clothes. If you're bigger, get larger bags...
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:27 am
by mswarrior
TechBMW wrote:The only time you -really- have to be careful is until about 10 mins after it starts raining. Until the streets have had a time to wash off, all that oil that collects in the pavement floats to the surface in the initial rain.
Good call Tech, most people don't know or remember this. The roads can be downright slick when it first starts to rain.