12-27-2018, 02:23 PM
I think hail for me. On a freeway with the RD400, summer time with dumb az'ed 
t-shirt, no gloves and just running shoes. Saw a thunder cell kinda in my path, thought, ah well, just some summer rain probably.
Suddenly the hail came in hard. At first, "[not-] cool", better watch the road conditions. That worry ended pretty suddenly as pain set in and my upper body started to shrivel as muscles contracted. Soon it was a battle of maintaining steering and throttle as hands left the bars. F-bombs dropping everywhere. The only smart thing going was the full-face helmet - and it was noisy inside. Hail was about marble-sized, but their velocity was relative to [initial] freeway speed. I was lucky, and very wet in the end.
Somewhere in there a flash thought of "tornado", but that never materialized. The sky was night in the early afternoon.
t-shirt, no gloves and just running shoes. Saw a thunder cell kinda in my path, thought, ah well, just some summer rain probably.Suddenly the hail came in hard. At first, "[not-] cool", better watch the road conditions. That worry ended pretty suddenly as pain set in and my upper body started to shrivel as muscles contracted. Soon it was a battle of maintaining steering and throttle as hands left the bars. F-bombs dropping everywhere. The only smart thing going was the full-face helmet - and it was noisy inside. Hail was about marble-sized, but their velocity was relative to [initial] freeway speed. I was lucky, and very wet in the end.
Somewhere in there a flash thought of "tornado", but that never materialized. The sky was night in the early afternoon.