Cold wet Winter riding!

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I rode to Maidstone (from chatham) today straight after work. I set off at 6.45 and arrived at 7.00 which is good. Went and watched Team America! Funny film!
After the film (9.30) me and Dam_Buster took the RC cars (Nitro cars) down to the tennis courts for a blast. (both our cars have lights )

anyway, Dam_busters car was not working so we went back to his, fixed it and walked back to tennis courts (about 10 by this time) and I started my car up, Driving it for a while, Dam_buster turns his transmitter on and WOOOOOOSH BANG! My car looses all signal and goes full throttle into the fence...

Anyway, back to subject!

At 11.15 I set off home back to chatham (10 mile journey) I set off to a bad start and got lost in the bloody road diversions
THEN I got back on track and a mile or so later had to pull over to rip my chrome Visor liner off because I could see fuck all.

FINALLY I reached the top of bluebell hill where I nearly lost it on the roundabout (Sheer ice ) But luckily kept rubber side down.

Got home about 5 minutes ago...

And thats the end of my story. But I basically just wana say how horrible Cold winter night riding is. and Has anybody else had similar experience ?

Im guessing you all have

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[JakeyC]

i always seem to be the one to turn a corner and slide over the top of a wet drain cover, or i always seem to stop put my fot down on the road only to have it slide and me almost loose my damn bike!

[AcIdBuRnZ]

I've crawled home at 30mph because it was so foggy I could only see 2 white lines ahead of me. That wasn't pleasent, horrible not being able to see.

I had also forgot to take a clear visor with me so had to keep my visor up, which in turn allowed the cold to steam up my glasses, so needed to stop every few hundred yeards to clean them.

It's 12 miles journey from work, luckily the fog cleared after about 6 miles.

Never want to do that again.
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[binge]

Yep, Its not nice, Especially those man hole covers. They are lethal.

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[numark1]

Yup one day when the roads iced over 'properly' last year my parents made me go to college. I was one of about 3 peds there at the time. Still take it slow and gain better experience including so drifting

[binge]

I was drifting my RC car on the frosty tennis court. Then It rolled backwards and I hit the throttle and jammed up my gears

So its another rebuild tomorow. I also NEED some different frequency crystals as Dam_buster put a nice crack in the front of my new shell!

[TiN]

[Claud 14.7 to 1]

From London to Bournemouth my visor kept fogging up every 10 seconds.

Had to do 60 on the motorway, and couldn't overtake safely. This was at 4/5 am.

It's nice riding in the dark and then having the sun rise.

[JakeyC]

hahahaha

[stinkwheel]

[binge]

Sounds good to me. Do you recon its posible in a Mini!

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[Claud 14.7 to 1]

Definitely Stinkwheel. It was beautiful. A crisp sunny winter’s morning.

I will do that again, kinda made you feel "alive".

Recommended.

Yer sure, the idea was to get the miles done "quickly" hehe, but at 60, and wiping visor frequenlty it took a longer than expected.

[Shaun]

[natv4]

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[CGJIM]

Just rode back from leeds today, doing 45-50 mph all the way back (middlesbrough) in strong wind and some rain.

Why is it that cars, lories and bus'es drive so close behind you when you are obviously being blown about in the wind and they can't overtake you anyway because of the double white lines or oncoming traffic? Realy pisses me off, if I was to fall off i would then be ran over aswell.

Other than getting lost on the way back and the above I had a good 2 days camping experience.

James
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[Dom_]

hahaha

I had to stick to 6k for 200km when running in my big-bore, so that means no more than 34mph thats about 4 hours of rding at 34 which i did in two evenings

I hate winter.

[The Tot]

Well, today i had to ride to college at 8 with a heavy gig-bag on my back, on the greasy/icy roads with fogged up visors and glasses - i had to navigate through london's finest traffic (namely Kenton Road) and filter past other street furniture and parked cars and the dumb secondary school students of St Gregs (nearly knocked one of them over as they FAILED to HEAR my LOUD bike - his field of vision was unrestricted but that never stopped him + a group of 20 crossing a busy 4 lane road)

The other night i rode home from my friends house and because i was so cold, i caned it for 3 miles at 50 mph through the same stretch on kenton road. Not advisable.

I wish winter was over so the salt wont constantly be fucking my bike
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[Wave2k]

i had to goto work at 7am in the snow
it was rather fun
i was doing like 300meter rolling burnouts
or snow slides
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[Shaun]

[binge]

Yea, But I didnt have my visor down. Then I pulled over to take the visor lining out, So I could have it down.

[Shaun]

But why have it in anyway, why not just take it out before you even left, its winter, goes dark at half past 4. The sun is never even out enough to actually need it at this time of year.

[instigator]