commuting in winter joy

[goto10]

[chickenstrip]

[onlyJaz]

[ride_to_die]

[Rogerborg]

[OldRTMan]

I'm a wuss , left it in the garage today

[Flatbadger]

I was out on the 125 today; it still bears the scars of a tip on freshly compacted snow a few years ago so if there was a chance of ice I'd have probably skipped it.

Interesting ride back at 5pm yesterday, I missed the snow but that was some of the heaviest rain I've ridden in. My boots let the water in (they're more seedy than SIDI) and I used to put my feet in plastic bags before booting up. Now I've upgraded, and have a pair of sleeves from an old pac-a-mac for my feet. I'm going up in the world.

My favourite way to beat the cold however is living 8 miles from work
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
You're in ISIS

[Hong Kong Phooey]

I haven't ridden at all since I found out I might die, until rainpal arrives I'll be using the car.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[Pete.]

Yesterday evening was godawful, icy cold rain and loads of salt-laden spray. The second half of my journey I made with the visor half open trying to balance between seeing where I was going and keeping the stinging rain out of my eyes.

This morning despite the snow on the road was pretty alright in comparison. I was wearing all different gear coz yesterdays was still wet. My Dew Liner kept me warm and toasty with the Richa Typhoon on top to keep me dry.

Guys at work were all saying "You're mad riding in this weather" but meh it wasn't so bad in my opinion.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Serendipity]

I missed last night’s snowpocalypse due to working from home, but I’m not sorry. I’ve ridden in heavy falling snow enough times to know it’s really crap. In fact I just parked up and walked away from the bike once, back in the 90’s. All your kit gets soaked, snow builds up on the visor really fast and you get the worst visor misting even with anti-fog defences. On that occasion I’d made it most of the way home, but the snow at that point was about 6 inches on the road and I knew I had some big hills ahead. Then I suddenly hit a bump that provoked a big sideways slide in slow motion that nearly had me off. I happened to be right next to a layby P sign so I found where I thought the layby was under the snow and abandoned the bike. The long walk in soaked bike gear was unamusing, but safer.

This morning wasn’t too bad around my neck of the woods. Chilly, but no snow and ice left on the roads. Although it snowed heavily again just as I left home, it stopped quite quickly only resulting in wet roads. The bike park at London Wall was equally quiet today. I think being Friday helped a lot of folk get “snowed in”.
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2007 CBF1000-ABS - Commuter heaven | 1994 CBR600FR - Awaiting defibrillation

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I left at 5am this morning, my road was covered in frozen snow. Moving a 300kg bike out on that was not fun. Then I had to play the game 'is that just wet or ice' on some local roads. Once I got into that London it was fine.

[myvision]

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I rode home in that rain last night - Richa one piece rain suit kept me bone dry.

Visibility was crap though, especially when behind other vehicles, at one point I even had to drop below three-figure speeds.

[myvision]

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I've been learning from Bodytard, although I still have all my own teeth*

*form an orderly queue ladies

[bamt]

[grr666]

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