Anyone ridin in the cold weather and with grit on the roads?
anyone with any experiences high sidein due to grit?

Really fancy goin for a blast but they keep plasterin the roads with grit and that got me thinking if you went out in this weather and come off due to the grit could you claim off the council?

Be interestin to see if anyone has tried

Not riding at the moment -- fair weather biker & proud of it :)

Doubt you'd be able to claim against the council if you dropped it on grit, it's a visible hazard so they would counter-argue that you should adjust your speed to suit.

Im pretty much a FWB too. Although started to miss the bike the other weekend, so fired it up, and went for a sunday morning blast (well wobble!!).

Plan was to go to Burnham for brekkie, but only got half way and doubled back, hands were FReezING................. bike covered up now till april !!!! lol

i ride all year round, i think its quite cool in the cold sometimes, ice is a bit dodgy but apart from that its all good.

Didn't realise there was anything special about the current weather...

Freezing fog was a bit icky on Friday night but that's about it.

Oh, Happy Christmas and God bless you, one and all :)

SB

All year round here , cant afford the petrol 4 the scooby to commute:Whatever_

just a pain in the arse to clean the bike at 11pm every night...:thumb:

ive had the rear end out a few times, touch wood ive caught them in time so far..

is always good to get home and warm up.:thumb:

Always riding irrespective 80miles/day.
Coldest morrning last week was -7 in rural Oxon (every morning was sub zero and a couple of evenings were zero). OK you go a wee bit slower and never try to be a hero but would never cop out and spend half my day stuck in traffic. If you have the right gear then it aint so bad and trust me the bike doesn't care so just use it. As for cleaning it, it might get a rinse about April time but unlikely ............. why wash off all the grime that has coated the bike and protects it ?

The bike/tyres only let go when you are trying to hard or don't know how to use a throttle - it only goes as fast as you want it to after all.

The biggest issue is the first few miles on sub zero roads, cold tyres and slippy but as I said just go a bit slower until everything warms up.

And dont worry about ice, if you are going to fall off on it then you will regardless of what you can do about it !!

Been out all the time except the last week far to icy:nono:

Took mine out this afternoon for a 20min run. Came back pitted, but atleast giving it a wash will give me something to do other than getting thrashed by my son on his new Wii......Assuming he gets one of course ;)

always on mine then again it's an enduro so none of this polished crap to worry about lol

Not riding at the moment -- fair weather biker & proud of it :)

Doubt you'd be able to claim against the council if you dropped it on grit, it's a visible hazard so they would counter-argue that you should adjust your speed to suit.


Snap, more of case of just too lazy to wash my bike after every ride for me!!

makes you laugh about peoples thinking about the weather ,
this isent bad weather 2ft of snow is bad weather back in the 80 s that was
bad weather the weather this year hasent been to bad at all ,i didnt even have to put my handle bar mitts on this year up to now .

"DONT BE SHY JUST FLY"

KEEP IT REAL YOU LOT ........ RIDE THE FERKER !:thumb:

Normally out this time of year, ok can't throw it about to much but fine, infact to compensate for slightly less flat out action try overtaking, accelerating hard, just on the white lines.

wooo hwoo weeee hahah again again.

Pud

Normally out this time of year, ok can't throw it about to much but fine, infact to compensate for slightly less flat out action try overtaking, accelerating hard, just on the white lines.

wooo hwoo weeee hahah again again.

Pud

been doing it for years pudders, even on a ap50 years ago(1987) side ways in the snow 2ft deep .
lol those were the days kidda ,,,,,,,,, ! :thumb:

The roads by me have had a layer of grease on them since the beginning of November. When that's the case I take the Impreza every time. It becomes more fun whereas the bike becomes far less.

The roads by me have had a layer of grease on them since the beginning of November. When that's the case I take the Impreza every time. It becomes more fun whereas the bike becomes far less.

thats an interesting comment not sure if im on my own on this one but im still
loving the bike in any weather , sure you have to ride to the conditions but
that isent going to put the fire out .

rain or shine i enjoy the bike better than my impreza .:eek2:

As previously said, just ride to the conditions. Couldn't give the bike up, can't stand having to sit in traffic with the other lemmings when I have the option to filter past :D

That said, that recent -7 morning we had did see me stop half way to work and hug the exhaust just to get some feeling back in my fingers :lol1:

-7 ahah iv got bar mits warm and dry lol look a bit odd but so what !

wind chill is a factor as well every 10mph is i deg less -

ie 0deg at stand still would = -10 at 100mph (just for example officer honestly)

no gloves keep your fingers warm bar mits are the way forward lol :luxhello:

As previously said, just ride to the conditions. Couldn't give the bike up, can't stand having to sit in traffic with the other lemmings when I have the option to filter past :D

That said, that recent -7 morning we had did see me stop half way to work and hug the exhaust just to get some feeling back in my fingers :lol1:

Ha ha, hugging the exhaust! Christ, that takes me back :lol1:

Got to say i braved the cold and went out on bike on wed and loved every minute of it,you were all right just get out there and do it you wont regret it:luxhello:

Havent been out for a while on bike so couldnt wait any longer. Roads were wet and greasy but still able to give it some just careful on corners.
:thumb:

It was like spring this morning, dry lines and +7deg. Even managed to lean more than 10deg which felt wierd having not done it for weeks !

Went out for a ride today. The weather isnt so bad, its not stupidly cold and the road were nice and dry.

Had a great ride out yesterday. Got rained on for the last 5 mins, but still had a good 3 hours out playing. :)

Matt