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What is the worst weather and conditons you have ever rode in? I have never been in the snow but 20's temp was cold. Just curious......

With my new riding gear I push the envelope ever end of season. Last year I was deep into November and in New Hampshire thats good and bad. On my last day of riding last year I believe it was like November 17 or 18th and when I headed out it was 36 degrees, sunny and roads were dampy but it wasn't below freezing. I got off work and I didn't notice at the timethat the emps had dropped to about 29 degrees. I got off work at midnight, preoccupied about something else and as I was riding out the gate when I felt this weird sensation. My bike appeared to be sloshing left and right irratically and loosing traction but then catching it. I stopped to check the road surface and found the earlier moisture had froze just a tad. I was freaked out because it was midnight,part of my route home was the interstate the other half country road. I felt if I could get past the interstate it would be all good. I drove all the way home 15-18 mph, vowing to God if I made it home safely that was it for the year for me. I kept visulaizing in my head tooling along at 30+ MPH and then having the bike slip out from underneath me.

While a number of days came and went in that November month that were sunny and tempting I was done for the season. That Nolan helmet and TourMaster jacket could have kept me riding far into the winter weeks/months barring icy/snowy roads.

My hats off to Gummiente.

On two wheels last winter I was out one night when it was 0 degrees F... That's cold at 50 MPH, trust me! lol Traction-wise, I went out after a blizzard to my dad's one time, all the roads were clear except for his of course. I ended up finding out that burnouts on ice are actually rather fun, and if you're going slow enough, you can use your legs as outriggers in melting snow...
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June 2006 in London. Sounds good right? 38 Celcius (100 F), humidity through the roof.

Who has summer gear for London? Not me. Sweat my bag off, heat rashes all over.

I know. All in all not that bad...

so far i its been 32 degrees here where im at, with some frost on the cars and i find myself brushing off the frost from my seat and gauges. i work at nights and getting off between 1 am to 3 am sometimes is kinda exiteing, i know, kinda crazy but i love to ride all the time....the only kinda weather i cant stan is cold rain even with rain gear it sucks big. i trust in my tourmaster jacket, its kept me warm, people cant belive that but it dose the job.

Two years ago I got to work one morning on my Bonneville - and realized the entire parking lot was coated with black ice!

Ever seen a motorcycle "tip toe" across ice? Lord knows how I avoided dumping the bike. Fortunately, the temps went up and melted the ice by the time I went home.

The same winter I was exercising the Bonne on a mid-20's day, ran into a sudden snow squall - and had a serious "what the hell am I doing out here on a motorcycle?!!" moment. But it passed.

I bought my Ducati in November last year (my birthday) and rode it straight through winter, but being that it was a Texas winter I'd say that my worst weather has to be some of the torrential downpours/lightning storms I've been caught in wearing jeans and a t shirt.

The first time I decided to get on the fast highway around here (65MPH) I took it up to 75 then it started POURING rain. I had to pull under a bridge only to have the rain slow to a drizzle 5 or so minutes later.

This made me nervous as it takes about 15 minutes for all the oil and whatnot to clear off the road. So now I just had a nice slippery oil and water mix

I had to ride home though as the alternative was waiting until tomorrow for everything to dry up lol.

badinfluence63 wrote:My hats off to Gummiente.

I don't think Gummi's taking his pretty Harley out in the snow - his Ural gets that chore!

Alhtough nothing to do with the cold, was on the north side of Lake Ockechobee (the one you see in the middle, lower part of the state when you look at a map of Florida).

All of a sudden I was caught in a downpour and couldn't see but a few feet in front. Bigger problem is, that stretch of road is a heavy trucking route and all I could imagine is some eighteen wheeler barreling over me. The first chance to get off the road I had was a construction site, pulled over just as a truck came up behind so I couldn't stop as quickly as I would've liked.

How I kept my bike upright through the mud I'll never know! I was quite happy to be alive and sit in the pouring rain (no cover of course) waiting for the rain to stop.......

Have yet to ride around that damn lake without soe sort of showers