07-03-2015, 09:51 AM
I rode a bit in the rains back in the 1980s, when I was a n00b on an SR500 and wearing leather...you do NOT want to wear real leather when it's raining and you're on a naked bike. Cold and wet and gets the mind running to thoughts of grisly suicide.
But that's far back in the brain-case files. More recently? THE worst weather I rode through was a month ago, on the Oregon coast. Cold, in the 50s; raining hard and fog. AND...TRAFFIC. All the out-of-state sightseers (like me!) were out there to watch whales and see the coast, and by gum and by God, they were GONNA WATCH WHALES.
And they didn't much like me slowing down, on that wet pavement, for hairpin turns. Never mind that I couldn't even see out my helmet face-mask half the time...it was steaming over inside and smeared with crud on the outside...man, oh man. TWO HUNDRED SLOW MILES OF HE**!
But that's far back in the brain-case files. More recently? THE worst weather I rode through was a month ago, on the Oregon coast. Cold, in the 50s; raining hard and fog. AND...TRAFFIC. All the out-of-state sightseers (like me!) were out there to watch whales and see the coast, and by gum and by God, they were GONNA WATCH WHALES.
And they didn't much like me slowing down, on that wet pavement, for hairpin turns. Never mind that I couldn't even see out my helmet face-mask half the time...it was steaming over inside and smeared with crud on the outside...man, oh man. TWO HUNDRED SLOW MILES OF HE**!