How many people...

[baldy]

...ride there bike in the snow. Do you wake up and see it and love it or start crying and use the car.

Personally i like it, it adds a little challenge into riding.

Just thought it would be appropriate with the weather we've had for the last few days.
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[Wave2k]

love it when it snows REALLY bad
not snows then rains a little bit then melts and snows again

when it snows really bad, stuff get cancelled

like work
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[haGGard]

If i woke up and there was snow i would love it For similar reasons to you...
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[instigator]

Certainly like it when it snows, makes you try and concentrate that bit more and the feeling that you could slip at any momeny is strangely cool.

I've used my bike every day since november the 17th(bar xmas day that is)

[Reevo8]

ridden four times in the snow, it is a pain, but also a neccesity. As I leave for work at 06:00 I usually get the fresh icy snow rather than the slushy easy to ride on snow!
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[baldy]

There is just endless amounts of doughnut potential and crazy 90 degree slides in the snow. Things you wouldn't think about doing normally. Plus i have to use the bike, the car is broken.
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[Zoffo]

Depends what your riding. Having 170 hp in your right fist is not good in snow

[Dom_]

It's fun for the first 10 minutes, but when you start to go really cold it gets boring. I'd much prefer a red hot tyre melting day.

[Mr C]

you have GOT to be joking
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[baldy]

I ride a nxr 125 (at the moment) which uses a new cg engine. about 11 bhp to play with in the snow.
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[steveh]

Last time it snowed down here was christmas day, so i thought it would be a good experience to ride in these conditions, thought i could use it as a learning curve.
So i went out, must of been about 3/4 of a hour and i came back, wasnt to cold but was shaking, never again.


Steve.
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[AcID ZeR0]

Britain comes to a halt at the first sign of snow. Local schools were closed today due to the snow which incidently didn't even settle

[Frost]

Riding in the snow is great! So pretty!
Riding when theres snow actually on the ground...fuck that!
I slow right down the instant it rains, snow i won't even start the bike.

[Klause]

Last night at about 11.00 I had to ride home with settled snow, some of the roads weren't bad but some small roads where almost solid snow/ice. It was very scary riding back had to use my feet alot to keep up right.
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[natv4]

I don't get a choice sadly. I don't fancy my riding this morning. Gonna be pretty slippy. My bike must weigh around 250kg, so if I have to use feet to stop it falling, I probably brake a leg or drop it. Fingers crossed.
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[Simple]

I wake up see the snow, think im going to get very cold/wet, put on my luuurverly waterproofs and get on with it.


I dont have the luxury of a car nor do i really want one.

riding in the snow is fine, its the idiot car drivers driving in the snow that worries me

[Bendy]

Not a chance in hell.

Done it once, got to the end of the road and abandoned that plan when it was impossible to get round the corner.

Maybe if I was on some little light thing with hardly any power that I could happily drop and pick up (and reach the ground well enough to 'ski') but on the CBR you have got to be having a larf!

[killa]

I don’t like the extremes of weather, but I have ridden through 5 winters now full on.
I don’t let it stop me, I have come off a few times on ice.
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[Keith]

I'll always have fun in the snow, but only messing around. The CG seems to enjoy it, but that thing is used in all weather, my little 'fun' bike which I dont really care about. I wouldnt dare attempt to actually go anywhere on the bike in bad weather though, its just asking for a crash. A few donuts in my road is about as much snow as my bike will ever see.
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[battleaxe]

[quote="Bendy"]Not a chance in hell.

when two wheels were my only form of transport, when I used to ride in trials, when I was a lot younger now give me the cage anyday the temperature drops below 16c
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[natv4]

Well I didn't brake a leg! Just an indicator and the exhaust [Please insert appropriate expletive].

So I have decided that once again I will ring up and get the car insured for business and use that.

My bike is too big and too expensive. Maybe with a small cheap bike, but that pretty much does it for me riding on ice. Incidently it was ok by my home, just one of the ungritted roads I had to ride along was packed into ice by the traffic.

So my advice to anyone is be very careful, but better still only ride if you are on gritted roads.

I should know better by now, but my work are not always understanding (They are based near bristol, and if its fine there, then everywhere must be good).

Good Luck People!
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[numark1]

I drove to college today in the snow. Was getting wheelspin in third and fourth gear

I was the only bike in college of about 60. Fassies

[Korn]

I rode to work every day through winter 2003 in the snow on an RVF 400, the gritted roads were mostly fine it was just the side streets covered in ice where the gritters hadn't been that required a lot of planning. Getting out of the garage meant putting both feet down and slowly wheel spinning your way to the end of the road where the ice ended. Never again, I should have just taken the train.

Doing it for fun on a bike you don't mind dropping is a whole different matter though, I had a good laugh last night on my X-Sport practicing powerslides on a frozen bit of car park. Eventually got a bit sore from falling off and went to play at handbrake turns in the car instead. Snow is fun
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[RiderOfTheSto...]

I love riding off-road in the snow. On frozen ponds is good too but can quite cold if the ice breaks!

This is what you need when it snows :
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[Gazdaman]

I SO want one of those!

Took a pillion in the snow today, all went fine, even did a lovely 2up u-turn.

Gaz