Being stubborn has officially caught up with me

[Pernig]

i suspect most of the country has had the amount of snow we've had in Lincolnshire tonight. I finished work at 7.30pm and the bike wouldn't start. She was literally caked in snow. Bit of WD40 round the starter solenoid and ignitor box and it was rough but it was going. My workmates were adamant that I stayed and didn't risk it but me being stubborn set off anyway .

Out of the car park and 100 yards down the road and the bike just goes from under me. Time to turn around I think .

The bike is fine and I'm alright. Just very sulky as I feel defeated. Maybe in the future I shouldn't be so stubborn.
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[m0l0t0v]

It was sunny and cloudless here Still cloudless but night time... cold but no sign of snow at all (until tomorrow apparently)

Bad luck though
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[salty21]

imo riding in the snow is some of the best experience you can get on a bike to teach you control, forward planning and my personal fave, getting the bike back from the brink of loosing it.

i feel i am a better rider from having experienced riding in what bits of snow we have had in the last couple of years and would reccomend it to anyone. especially the novice/learners catagory of rider.
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[Pernig]

Already fell off once tonight. Maybe i'll have a stab at it tomorrow :p.
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[Darth]

Ride in snow you say?? Sounds like foolishness and certain death to me!

[salty21]

i actually enjoy it in a way lol
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[hmmmnz]

i too rate it, if you can ride in snow with road tyres,.
then you can ride in any conditions
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its quite funny when you meet telemark skiers
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[truslack]

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[swiftb]

i comuted through two snowy winters on a gpr50, great fun, occasional trips to and from work with both feet as stabilisers all the way. great fun when i was 16, would i f**k do it now tho lol

[doggone]

It's not all that bad - I've been caught out a few times by snow showers dumping a few inches and had to ride home in it.
You might need to put feet down at times but especially in fresh snow you can get along reasonably well.

[truslack]

[Pernig]

Thanks guys, for giving me my ego back . I'm tempted to give it another go.

I would probably be alright if i wasn't on a 250 kg cruiser with tyres as good as slick .
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[Asharin]

Haven't had decent snow round here for 18 years
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[teech]

I am perversely jealous of the fact that some of you are battling snow. I live in Poole in Dorset and we haven't had snow that has settled for more than a day since 1987. (I remember it well)

Down here it either gets very fucking cold and dry, or really wet and the roads are sodden with salt.....

English riveira my arse, my Grandad was from Yorkshire, give me some proper weather to break up the monotony......
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[kitty kat]

Fortunately we don't get much snow in Blackpool.

I did choose to go on my bike many years ago over the car when there was 6" of snow on the ground. Took me 90 minutes to go 7 miles as I got stuck in a rut left by a car and ended up going a very long way round to my boyfriends
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[garyd]

Or you could just ride a trail bike in the mud every w/end to teach you all the throttle hand and balance technique you will ever need
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[salty21]

[Moonie]

Not even icy here, although they still managed to grit everywhere way too much
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[The Tot]

I agree with Salty there - was caught out in london a few christmases ago (admittedly, the time i caught pneumonia). Had to do a trans-london trip in packed snow, which is worse than fresh snow because it's been compacted. You had to ride about very gingerly, but it was also pretty fun! Fair enough doing it on a screamer of a 250, but I wouldn't like to be chancing it if i were on a V-Twin thou, or any thou for that matter! Needs must, but doing on a sportsbike is fun (not fun if u drop it and crash).
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[fatsamurai]

I did the same thing today. Binned it in the middle of the road. Lucky there wasn't any traffic about.

Cracked my engine casing too, so the bugger is bleeding oil.
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[NiteMare]

i've not ridden in/on snow for years, the best i've seen in the last 15 or so years was about 1.5 inches on the A45, 60mph passing all the cars in the nearside lane on my way to work...

i was still riding my old GL1000 on that

a few years prior to that we used to get a reasonable fall of snow between Birmingham and Coventry, my parents live in Meriden and i regularly used to visit them regardless of the weather, i'd use the lanes back home thru Four Oaks or Berkswell and have to ride thru snow that had been driven thru gateways, that could leave 8inch drifts across the lanes ...

always ride smoothly and deliberately on snow, preferably fresh snow as it gives you better traction than packed
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[damz]

never ridden in snow, just in icey conditions and i shat myself constantly, came off a work scooter and snapped so many bits off it lol, somehow the pizza's on the scooter faired better than the scooter lol.

in Glasgow theres hardly ever any heavy snow nowadays, if it does snow its for a couple of hours, think its snowed once winter last year, remember it because i got home at 4am, no snow, woke up at 9am snow everywhere, went back to sleep and woke up at 2pm and no snow lol.

i think if its fresh snow it will provide some kind of grip rather than the slushy crap you get when the road has been well travelled. at least if you come off in fresh snow you get a softer landing i guess.
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[Pernig]

Trail riding is someting I've wanted to get into for ages but there's nowhere I could do it round here that i could think of. Wish I'd just picked it up and carried on now as it won't start now after being sat outside in the snow for a day .
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