Gonna be a slippy ride home tonight!!!

[r1_lad]

Jesus! Did it just start thundering/hailing anywhere else?

Within about 1min flat it went from clear skies to this...

Quite glad i got new tyres recently otherwise the drive home could have been REALLY interesting!
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[Silver]

Bloody hell - clear blue sky here. Where do you live?

[r1_lad]

West sussex. Bloody english weather
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[ProXimaCore]

I hope you've ran those new tyres in then.

I've been out in weather like that on the bike. Every time I twisted the throttle, the bike just went sideways. Had to put it in top gear and plod along at 20mph. Roads were a sheet of ice. That was this summer too!
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[r1_lad]

Yeah the tyres had 100miles on them the the day i got em
Doesn't help that my ride home from work consists of twisty country roads but i'm sure it'll be fine, just have to be a tad more careful than normal on the throttle! I managed to ride to/from work last year in the snow+ice etc without too many problems, just made it a bit more hmm whats the word... "interesting" around the corners!
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[Bomberman]

Just happened here too (Sheffield) Got caught in it on my bike, and being new and unused to such conditions I managed to nearly bin my bike three times Front brake plus wet grate equals interesting sensation (plus incredibly poor condition roads ) Heh, you'd have thought I'd have learned after the first one
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[wilberforce]

Heck. is that today?

The sun is shining on Tyneside.

Who says the north is deprived.

Well it was when I started typing.

[Mnementh]

[r1_lad]

Just been back outside a sec ago. Complete clear blue sky again, not a cloud in sight! Absolute bloody madness.
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[Jrod]

Well i just rode home from college, Halfway home the heavens opened. That was the worst weather I have ridden in, My visor just became a blur from the mist, I opened it so i could see and I'm blinded by rain in my eyes. Is there any anti-fog stuff that you can recommend and anything that would make the water run off my visor better ?

[r1_lad]

Get yourself a fog-city insert, they're brilliant and don't cost too much. Never used the sprays so can't comment on them.
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[NSR125-Kid-UK]

Whoa - i've got to ride to work in that?

It was raining here a lot, now it's cleared up again, and maybe later it will rain, again.
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[stinkwheel]

Of all the weather you can ride a motorbike in, hailstones suck the most. I once got caught on the M74 in a monster hailstorm just behind a thunderstorm. The hailstones were about 5mm accross, at 80mph that hurts even through a set of bellstaff leather jeans!

I once got caught in a hailstorm on my moped when I was wearing an open faced lid. It is the only occasion I have ever had to stop and get off my bike because the weather was too bad to ride it any further.
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[iCraig]

Clear blue sky here in Manchester too, though a tad windy.

According to the weather that the further east you are the worse the weather .

[r1_lad]

Ouch.
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[ian_s]

Forget riding in that, I am not that brave. I would have moaned at a colleague until they took pity and gave me a lift home.

Rode to work the other day and it was windy and pouring with rain. Filtering between cars whilst slipping off cat-eyes was not much fun. 2 hours later bright blue skies!

[Robby]

r1 lad - Are you the only inhabitant of crawley that doesn't work at the airport?

[Davo]

I've had that bizzare weather, I've been stuck down in Brighton all day, but didn't have a slippery surfaces on the ride home

[r1_lad]

[Robby]

I know the feeling, I live in edenbridge but I work at the airport.

The Air Phuket air hostesses are very nice.

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