This weather STINKS!

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Well it does!

[lumpyv]

agreed, its doing that "dry when im at work" thing and pissing down when i am not

[Steve6088]

I just hope it drys up a bit for my ride to catch the ferry in Plymouth on Sunday. It can carry on again then

[aces-high]

It's fecking horrible. just driven back from Barrow ( in the van ) and everyones gone mental, right up me butt even though you can only see about 50 yards. Still I hate the twats that have their fog lights on. Its not foggy! your just dazzling me.
Saw some bikers heading up the M6 in the lakes, poor b8stard were drowning.

[StormingHonda]

this year, summer is a total washout, if I hear any water companies moaning about a drought this year, i'm gonna drown the fekker.

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There seems no end to it. Been looking forward to summer for ages and it turns out like this Should be cracking the flags now. Hope it bucks up for my birthday at Oulton Park in 2 weeks!

[Murv]

It is utter wombles.

Fishing a couple of evenings ago, huddled under the brolly, being battered by strom force winds whilst the rain lashed down, freezing my butt off

It's June FFS

[Rob]

Just bought some new gear from Hein Gericke. Well, it's definitely waterproof

That proved, wish the rain would now piss off

[benny hedges]

same as rob, got sick of getting my new leathers wet so bought some nice rst waterproof textiles.
very impressed with them so far
very cosy


so you know the sun will be out tomorrow and i'll be sweating my tits off lol

[Rob]

I work shifts so it's a nightmare for me. 5am even in the spring/summer can be pretty damn cool, so all the gear, heated grips, not too bad. At least the roads are empty :-)

Then coming home at 2pm, all the gear blue skies and red hot so desperately trying to keep moving through the traffic just to keep cool.

Love it.

[seb421]

Friday evening was wombles horrible

wombles wombles horrible

the Pilot road three's work bloody well but when asked to cross a river its asking a bit much for them

Sad to report the bike went down on Friday night, i was coming off the motorway and at the roundabout heading towards Farington (Leyland) in the filter lane before the round about on the left (single lane) and there is a car stopped in the middle no hazards on or reverse lights or anything just stopped i can see the driver on the phone so i think wombles wonker what a place to stop and chat sh1t.

blat past the car then shock horror its a wombles lake where the road should be, im late for work as it is, sh1t... so i continue thinking its not going to be that deep

i didn't know the road dipped down... before i knew it water was coming up over the screen, sh1t!!! then the bike couldn't get any traction kept it pinned and plowing forwad slowly water going everywhere ... gets to the middle and the force of the water pushing from left to right across the road lifted the bike from under me and it went down in slow motion luckily at very low speed and down onto my leg, thank wombles for those new boots

picked the bike up asap and it was still running (phew) got back on and rode it out, got to work left it running for a good while dry out and inspected the bike for damage

No damage what a result all there was is a small scrape on the Chinese indicator on the front, thank god my leg took the weight

Was thiking wombles Repsol fairings will be wombles, bars may be bent, gear lever, left side yoshi, nope nothing!!!

Still was very pissed off with my self for attempting that crossing, got to work and they said why have you bothered coming in in this? typical

[VTRDark]

You had a lucky escape there Seb. Your like me, rather damage/bruise yourself rather than the bike. As long as there's no broken bones, damage to the body is cheaper.

(:-})

[seb421]

You had a lucky escape there Seb. Your like me, rather damage/bruise yourself rather than the bike. As long as there's no broken bones, damage to the body is cheaper.

(:-})

Lol agree mate the NHS will fix me up and ive paid for that service so might as well make use of it, dont think they would cover cost of repairs to the bike mind so would rather limp for a week than bugger the bike up anyday. Ive done that road for over 3years since working at UPS and I have never seen anything more than a little puddle by the curb side that was a full on river coming across both sides :shock:

Sent from the Bat Cave via Cup and String

[Rob]

Definitely lucky. Glad your bike is ok (oh, and you lol) nothing hurt, apart from your pride - don't worry about that, just another story for the pub

Where I used to work a road on the way used to flood, no way I could get the car through but the bike was happy. Just had to go slow and lift my feet right up so they didn't get wet. Damn deep, probably 1.5 - 2 foot!

Thinner tyres on bikes seem to handle standing water better than cars, but at speed, if it's pretty deep then it's inevitable you will lose traction.