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Rick_a
| | Posted on Friday, December 03, 2004 - 01:55 pm: | 
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I've done 90mph in 30 degree weather...wearing ventilated roadrace gloves. That hurts. |
Cowboy
| | Posted on Friday, December 03, 2004 - 03:34 pm: |
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Dont know if it makes any one any difference or not,but I find my Buell much warmer than my V-Rod.
I think rideing posion makes a big difference |
Peter
| | Posted on Friday, December 03, 2004 - 04:46 pm: |
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quote:When we doin Dakar?
Just need sponsorship..... ya rich? |
Blake
| | Posted on Friday, December 03, 2004 - 09:14 pm: |
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Not materially, but I know some people who are. |
Leftcoastal
| | Posted on Friday, December 03, 2004 - 10:07 pm: |
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I've ridden in the high teens - low 20's in upstate NY, but the coldest I've been riding was in Florida! Early March '78 I was riding from Miami to LA and hit a freezing rain storm between Talahassee and Pensacola. Sign said "Next Exit 14 miles". By the time I got to that exit, all the cables on the '62 HD I was riding were about 1" diameter with ICE! Everything on the front of the bike was coated and when I would flex my fingers to get the circulation going, Ice would crack off my gloves! If that sign would have said 15 miles, I don't think I'd be writing this! |
Dsergison
| | Posted on Friday, December 03, 2004 - 11:43 pm: |
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Whilst riding my X1 to lunch last year, it hailed on me. It was not even cold out so I didn't wear my helmet but darn it it hailed. it chipped the clearcoat off my tail section as I sat in subway sandwich shop rubbing my face. Hail stings like riding through 10,000 big bugs. weird weater that day. |
Buells Rule!
(Dyna in disguise)
| | Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2004 - 12:25 am: |
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That has to be some kind of record for a Dodge Shadow. Did you change the oil every month?
Actually I hardly ever changed it. Hit about 60,000 & it started burning just a little, not bad but enough that I figured with the oil I was adding it was getting changed one way or another
I may have done 5-6 actual oil changes during the life of the car. Maybe thats the secret? Abuse the hell out of em. |
Philip
| | Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2004 - 12:36 am: |
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18 degrees coming home from a party. riding a hardtail sportster, thin longjohns and thin leather pants and biker jacket. mom knitted ski mask and no helmet. must have averaged about 80 mph on the 35 mile trip home. frozen stiff!! |
Ethanr
| | Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2004 - 01:14 am: |
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Not the coldest, but the time I *felt* the coldest...I was in college. Young AND dumb. Started north from St. Louis on Hwy 61 overcast and cold but I was wearing a Tour Master winter suit and gloves and had a windscreen on my 550 Nighthawk. Invincible and intending to make it all the way to Kirksville by nightfall. Then it started snowing. OK, not too bad. Melting off the road and I'm still warm. Until the temperature changed and it turned to freezing rain. Took me about 4 hours to make it to Hannibal, which is usually about 1.5 hrs...using my feet as outriggers to hold the bike up. Luckily for me there was zero traffic. When I pulled into a cheap motel in Hannibal, the kind lady behind the desk shooed me directly to a room to warm up. She even brought me soup and hot cocoa while her husband just shook his head. No more snow for me! |
Peter
| | Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2004 - 01:48 am: |
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quote:Not materially, but I know some people who are.
Cool. Do they want to shell out $100,000 for a couple of blokes to make a very conservative attempt? (ie a Honda XR650 or similar). I know the shops here that sponsor a rider budget on €100,000 per, but that's with a mechanic etc. I'd like to try to do it the old fashioned way. Just a bloke with his bike, making it to Dakar, and drinking that champagne on the podium..... |
Blake
| | Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2004 - 04:42 pm: |
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I figure anyone who owns more than two working street bikes must be rich. That's what I've always aspired to anyway. I had two for a very brief time.
BTW, what is this "coldest" of which everyone is speaking? |
Ingemar
| | Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2004 - 05:31 pm: |
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BTW, what is this "coldest" of which everyone is speaking?
Shut up and don't ask! You don't wanna know .... it's ugly ... Grrrr! |
Rocketman
| | Posted on Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 07:20 am: |
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There's an alternative route to Dakar and you have to drop three naughts off that price!
Sadly, it seems it's for cars only. But who knows what can be sorted?
Plymouth - Dakar
Rocket |
Newfie_buell
| | Posted on Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 07:38 am: |
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Rocket,
How much do you think it would cost for that?
Myself, you and Grumpy in 2006!!! |
Peter
| | Posted on Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 09:14 am: |
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That's interesting 'cos there's also one that leaves from Amsterdam.
Amsterdam-Dakar
Rules are;
* De auto mag niet meer kosten dan 500 euro.
* Het finetunen van de challenge-auto mag de 150 euro grens niet overschrijden.
* Er bestaat geen formele ondersteuning tijdens de challenge.
* De opbrengst van de autoverkoop gaat naar het lokale goede doel van jouw keuze.
which when put through an online translation service reads:
* The car can no longer cost than 500 euro.
* The finetunen of the challenge car cannot exceed the 150 euro
border.
* No formal support exists there during the challenge.
* Goes the turnover of car sale to the local good aim of your choice.
Bikes are also allowed. |
Rek
| | Posted on Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 09:18 am: |
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BTW, what is this "coldest" of which everyone is speaking?
If you have to ask then you don't deserve to know 
Rob |
Buffalobolt
| | Posted on Monday, December 06, 2004 - 07:17 pm: |
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The coldest I've ridden in is -7 F going 70mph down the freeway. I hadn't checked the temperature before I left, it looked "nice" out and I was in one of those moods where the bike was definately going to be ridden to work that day. Knew I was in trouble when my hands started stinging, and I hadn't even gotten out of my neighborhood! Just before getting off at my exit came the relization that my throttle had frozen at 70mph. Just about hit the kill switch when I got it down to 1500 rpm. Rode it the rest of the way to work like that 1500rpm all the way, through traffic! I don't mind saying that HURT! I have since limited myself to +15F (at least until I get some heated clothes/grips!!). |
Tramp
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 12:29 am: |
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like i said, -20 fahrenheit, regularly, commuting in ny state winters.
not as insane as it sounds when you wear good ski gear. ya just notice EVERY little gap in the space betwixt your scarf and your helmet |
Ingemar
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:29 am: |
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Went to work today on the bike. Probably around 0 celcius this morning. Arounf 5 or 6 celcius coming home. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:32 am: |
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dang, son- this here's america!11 talk american and knock it off w'that thar chinaman talk...
how th' sam hill cold WAS it? |
Blake
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 05:02 pm: |
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Better to not pizz-off a Viking.  |
Tramp
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 07:12 pm: |
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uh-oh... conquest afoot... |
Outrider
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 11:21 am: |
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Not to mention, Blake used the "P" Word.  |
Charlieboy6649
| | Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 01:12 am: |
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Last week this desert river rat endured 32 deg in ice and snow coming over the tecate divide. Never want to do that one again! I'll stick to the desert thank you. Hell, I'm cold in 75 deg! |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 12:54 pm: |
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I rode through a slushy snow storm one odd October day. That was the scariest ride of my life. I did less than 10 miles but was sideways for much of it. My visor was left 1/4 open so I could see. Amazingly, even with making stops with both wheels on the edge of lockup, having to slide sideways 1/4 mile down a hill so that the wind didn't knock me off (it was so slick 3 cars were blown off the road) and riding on worn out tires, I stayed on two wheels. A few blocks from my home the bike died and wouldn't restart. I had a load of snow packed onto my front cylinder. I left it at a trusted place and picked it up later...when it got warmer...and wasn't snowing. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 04:47 pm: |
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do that all winter long and you'll develop feline balance.
oh yeah...less front brake, more cowbell |
Chainsaw
| | Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 07:18 pm: |
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This is the most personally entertaining thread I've seen here in a while.  It's nice to know I'm not the only idiot to have ridden on ice thru snow. |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 02:35 pm: |
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Idiot is a bit harsh a word.
I used to live in NY. Don't miss that weather a bit.
I rode a mountain bike all winter. In town I'd always pass cars. If only I had a dual sport or 'motard...can't afford one.
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Charlieboy6649
| | Posted on Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 05:56 pm: |
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About the less brake more cowbell comment. I so agree. I don't know how I didn't fall down. I was doing the sideways spinning tires thing Rick described. Oh, and idiotic is the descriptor of choice in my book. Now my bike is running like crap. I hope it is just because it was trailered from 4150 ft to 200 ft below and the ECM is still adjusting... Maybe the snow melted and water got somewhere??? |
Rek
| | Posted on Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 06:58 pm: |
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Yowser! 50 degrees here today...w/ a 60 mph cross wind. Took the scooter out for a short cruise anyway, since it's the first time I've been out in 2-3 weeks and the temps have been 30 or below.
Funny how you search out those windows of opportunity when you get a decent machine....
Rob |
Bartimus
| | Posted on Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 08:05 pm: |
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In "95 I was stupid enough to ride from New Mexico. where it was 75+ degrees. up to New York. where it was 12 degrees, for Thanksgiving with my family. During the trip, I ran into blizzards in Indiana, Illinois, and freezing rain across Ohio. The sky finally cleared as I entered Pennsylvania. While riding at night, due to lost time, I was stopping about every 10 miles to warm my hands around the exhaust of my '69 Honda CB750. I stopped in Snowshoe, Penn at the rest area to find that the temp was hovering at 0 degrees, and going to get colder. I finally wimped out, and called a buddy in Scranton to come and get me, while I sat with the rest area attendant, (who rode a goldwing in good weather) and chatted about bikes and such.
You know you have a good bro, when he will get out of bed, and drive 300 miles to pick up his frozen friend, at 1AM...
They still harras me about that trip. I ended up buying a used Chevy 3/4 ton truck for $500 and hauling the bike home to New Mexico.
I'm glad I live in the desert. You guys can keep your freezing weather. Today it was 75 degrees, and I'm lovin' it !!!
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Tramp
| | Posted on Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 11:14 pm: |
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i'll be happy as a clam as soon as my s2 rat is in it's CRATE to california and me and the trampette drive the wagon out, this month.
...had enough sub-zero commuting on my buell in
these ny winters. |
