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Motorcyclist of the Year Nominee
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Posted by: tx246---------------------
situation is this....im in north east oklahoma last weekend attending the claremore ax with mx547. anyway its cold, really cold. when i left dfw on friday pm it was 78degrees. saturdays high in claremore, ok was 24. the arena never got above 35. it gets colder sat night. down to 14 saturday night which is the coldest ive seen it since living in chicago as a kid. i get in my car sunday morning and it wont start @17 degrees. mx547 jumps me off and away i go.
its 8:30 on a sunday morning and still has to be in the high teens. im going down highway 69 when here he comes. SOME GUY ON A STREETBIKE WAS HAULING DOWN THE HIGHWAY. i just shuddered. here i was still wearing my coat inside the car and he was cruising 70mph like it was march or something. in these conditions you might think it was some guy behind a windscreen on a spiffy bmw with heated vest/gloves and blizzard suit. not this guy. he was on a 80s honda (ujm) with jeans on and a carhart with some kind of skigloves. i cant imagine what the windchill was for that guy.
i commend him as the "real biker" and hereby nominate him as motorcyclist of the year.
who do you nominate?
Posted by: oldguy---------------------
we have 2 test riders for Harley Davidson that live a few miles away. They ride everyday that the roads are safe regardless of temp, rain, snow or whatever. I have seen them riding in a blizzard of 15" snow, temps in the teens with 30 to 40 MPH winds. I have also seen them on the interstate in temps down to 10 below heading to or from work.
They have the glamour job in the summer but really earn their pay in the other 11 months of the year we have around here
Posted by: Rooster---------------------
Summer and the "other eleven months". Remind me again why I live so far north?
I saw a guy on his harley out the other day, it got up to a whopping 35 degrees here. I caught a chill just watching him go by. He really didn't look like he was enjoying the ride too much.
Posted by: D Lafleur---------------------
Down here we have two seasons the dry one and the wet one. The wet season begins with the temps below 50 for a week or two and that is about it. Get down here at the peak of the "dry" season and straddle one of those air cooled bikes in traffic with 99.99% humidity, you may want to move back to the north.
Posted by: CaptainObvious---------------------
With electric clothing and heated grips you can ride in just about any temperature you want. I've been out riding on the street with friends (who have electric "stuff") wehn the temperature was in the 20's. It fluggin hurts! You get a chill that shakes the whole bike. When the temperature drops below 40, I'm done.
Posted by: Tony Eeds---------------------
I was coming back to DFW from Abilene late one night and it was pouring down rain like a cow peeing on a flat rock.
The windshield wipers were going top speed and I was only going about 60 becasue the roads were flooded with standing water in the asphalt troughs formed by the 18 wheelers.
In front of me I saw a single taillight and figured I was closing on a car with a burned out bulb.
Nope, it was a couple 2 up on an old streetbike. There is no doubt in my mind they were soaked to the bone because I didn't see one piece of rain gear between them. I eased as far to the left as I could as I passed them but still roosted them with the spray from the water on the road. The 18 wheeler on my ass could not move over. They took the full force of the wind and the rain off of his truck. At that point they were between Ranger and Weatherford heading east. I still wonder where the were headed that they had to be out then.
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