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MCN_LiamM
02-02-09, 11:21 AM
As it says really. Just wondering how many of you really are all weather bikers.

I did and it wasn't too bad. The roads were free of snow but the driveway out of my flat and the work car park was a different story. Snowfall was a couple of inches or so.

carty
02-02-09, 11:24 AM
Fortunately not - the trains were running fine so I had no reason to risk my life on the roads on the bike. Having said that, the car works too so I would have gone in that had the trains not been working.

Bike is a last resort for me in this weather I'm afraid! :D

rictus01
02-02-09, 11:26 AM
started it, but as it's in about a foot of snow I doubt I'd get it off the front.

Might try a bit later.


Cheers Mark.

Alpinestarhero
02-02-09, 11:29 AM
haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha

hahahahaahahha

hhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehhe

hell no.

Dappa D
02-02-09, 11:29 AM
ive seen rictus01's pic of his bike this morning, dont blame ya dude, my area wasnt as bad as that but was very icey and snowy in parts...and i rode in...first time the weather has been like that since i have had the bike back on the road, i took it nice and steady...mostly back brake usage hardly any front....layered up...was warm enough..apart from my fingers wow they were cold

Ed
02-02-09, 11:35 AM
I have to take daughter to school with violin, PE kit, packed lunch and 'hair'. Can't fit them all on the bike, even when it's sunny:rolleyes:

Dangerous Dave
02-02-09, 11:35 AM
I rode in (Dorset)

STRAMASHER
02-02-09, 11:38 AM
I only get the car if its snow, she gets bus. I don't bounce as well as I used to.

Unfortunately the motah was getting collected for MOT and service so it was bike.

Roads were all clear and well gritted. Just my SV and a R1150LT in work.

The amount of snow in Glasgow is hardly worth mentioning. Time yet for weather-based chaos ,with a bit of luck. Love it. :cool:

Makes me want to get a "Trailie"!

yorkie_chris
02-02-09, 11:41 AM
I tried. Couldn't get up the drive. Neighbor was pi$$ing himself laughing at me making a run up at it, getting half way, then slithering back down.

STRAMASHER
02-02-09, 11:45 AM
The amount of snow in Glasgow is hardly worth mentioning. Time yet for weather-based chaos ,with a bit of luck. Love it. :cool:



Had a look outside. The amount of snow is worth mentioning now! Aw Feck! LOL:cheers:

Alpinestarhero
02-02-09, 11:46 AM
Makes me want to get a "Trailie"!

my dad used to have a yamaha XT550 or 500 (cant remember), this was when i was really little apparently, like, 2 months old. One winter, he used it to get acoss the local feilds to get baby formula for me and my bro, and recalls how he laughed at people stuck in the snow while he bombed along

however

when he came back to his XT, he went to kickstart it....but he got kick-back. since there was so many people standind around, he valiently rode off....round the corner...and then got off, and cried cos it hurt so much

then bombed back home :cheers:

yorkie_chris
02-02-09, 11:47 AM
Yeah if my trials bike had more than about 15 miles of tank range I could ride that in, that would be a larrf.

ogden
02-02-09, 11:57 AM
Hell no. No tube or buses either, so I stayed at home.

It's still snowing too, and due to get heavier in a couple of hours. Getting out is one thing, getting back home later entirely another.

Alpinestarhero
02-02-09, 12:00 PM
Hell no. No tube or buses either, so I stayed at home.

It's still snowing too, and due to get heavier in a couple of hours. Getting out is one thing, getting back home later entirely another.

my mum said exactly the same thing to my bro earlier, so he didnt go to work

shonadoll
02-02-09, 12:06 PM
I only get the car if its snow, she gets bus. I don't bounce as well as I used to.

Unfortunately the motah was getting collected for MOT and service so it was bike.

Roads were all clear and well gritted. Just my SV and a R1150LT in work.

The amount of snow in Glasgow is hardly worth mentioning. Time yet for weather-based chaos ,with a bit of luck. Love it. :cool:

Makes me want to get a "Trailie"!

Im on the south side near clarkston and it's really deep!

shonadoll
02-02-09, 12:07 PM
I don't get the negativity - I mean it's not like you get a prize for taking more risks!

STRAMASHER
02-02-09, 12:18 PM
Im on the south side near clarkston and it's really deep!

House is on top of a hill in Thornliebank. Great for bumping bikes and getting to work! Not so good coming home.:) TBH its always well gritted as its a bit of a rat-run.

My niece is working in Castlemilk and has asked me to dig her 1st car out when she finishes at 7pm the nicht. Only had her license a coupla weeks. She was not having fun this morning.:mrgreen:

shonadoll
02-02-09, 12:27 PM
House is on top of a hill in Thornliebank. Great for bumping bikes and getting to work! Not so good coming home.:) TBH its always well gritted as its a bit of a rat-run.

My niece is working in Castlemilk and has asked me to dig her 1st car out when she finishes at 7pm the nicht. Only had her license a coupla weeks. She was not having fun this morning.:mrgreen:

Ah right, that's where OH works, Thornliebank.God poor thing, I hope she gets out ok, don't fancy that after just passing test.

Baph
02-02-09, 12:34 PM
I don't get the negativity - I mean it's not like you get a prize for taking more risks!

I see snow as a challenge, and I've always been the kind of person that enjoys a challenge.

Ice is a challenge too, and I do go out on the bike when I know it's icy. :confused:

Haven't been to work yet, I don't start until 3. I'll be using the bike - though there is only a light dusting here & the main roads are fine.

Dicky Ticker
02-02-09, 12:56 PM
Common sense says keeping perpendicular in these conditions is going to be difficult
and the chance of ending up horizontal very high.Being retired I fortunately have the choice where as you may not-------GOOD LUCK ON THE WAY HOME

SoulKiss
02-02-09, 01:07 PM
Tried to get to work this morning but the tube station was closed.

Only saw one bike on the road in my travels.

And it was a Blue Pointy.................................

Those SV riders - mad b*ggers the lot of them :)

Ch00
02-02-09, 01:08 PM
I was ordered by the boss NOT to attempt to get to work. The big boss shut it all down. A free day off cool.

Ch00

Stu
02-02-09, 01:16 PM
I've measured over 10 inches of snow outside my front door. So that would be a no to the bike. THere's all weather rider and there's just foolishness.
I woul love an offroad bike with mud tyres though & would definetely thake ta out if I had one.

They can't even run any trains in this & the slip road to the A3 has been closed by the Police

vardypeeps
02-02-09, 01:17 PM
Managed this morning fine from Huddersfield to Bradford.

Tuesday is more of a question for me as it is meant to be snowing in NE all night.

hob
02-02-09, 01:18 PM
haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha

hahahahaahahha

hhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehhe

hell no.

+1

Stayed in like a little girl :D

Snow man time :D

vardypeeps
02-02-09, 01:20 PM
Hell no. No tube or buses either, so I stayed at home.

It's still snowing too, and due to get heavier in a couple of hours. Getting out is one thing, getting back home later entirely another.

You could always set off before it gets too bad?

Alpinestarhero
02-02-09, 01:29 PM
+1

Stayed in like a little girl :D

Snow man time :D

damn right

and besides, half thr major roads around brighton are shut / blocked with overturned lorries

Alpinestarhero
02-02-09, 01:30 PM
Tried to get to work this morning but the tube station was closed.

Only saw one bike on the road in my travels.

And it was a Blue Pointy.................................

Those SV riders - mad b*ggers the lot of them :)

spiderman?

Thingus
02-02-09, 01:34 PM
Took the cage. Didn't have a choice as i had to pick someone up anyway but i wouldn't have ridden in this i dun think :p

vardypeeps
02-02-09, 01:38 PM
I tried. Couldn't get up the drive. Neighbor was pi$$ing himself laughing at me making a run up at it, getting half way, then slithering back down.

You tried to get out of your drive!!!! Brave man (nutter)

ogden
02-02-09, 01:39 PM
You could always set off before it gets too bad?

They've told everyone in the office to leave by 3pm before the heavy snowfall resumes. Looking out the window from my sofa it seems to have started two hours early.

Alpinestarhero
02-02-09, 01:44 PM
ogden, its coming down heavy here in brighton again now

Hardened Rider
02-02-09, 01:57 PM
Attempted it, kinda wished I hadn't. I've got four short back roads before getting to dual carraige way, I made two of the back roads, the third one got me, down on the left side, saw the obvious damage, snapped the end off clutch lever, bent bar end few sratches in the fairing, no indy. Picked the bike up, jumped back on, one more road and should be on a nicely gritted A road. Got to the slip road, yeah definately clearer, upped my speed, went to change up to second (ah nuts) no gear lever! Rode in 1st til I could get off the dual carraige way, a few miles, got off. Walked home (about 3 miles) in a blizzard, took roughly two hours, all this at 6:00 this morning.

Cursed most of the walk home, in between laughing at the fact that if I hadn't of stacked it earlier on I would have made it.

And to clarify I walked home cause there was no way I was riding back down that dual carraige way in 1st, I'm still amazed at surviving the first run.

I hate to be beaten, but this morning I was, just :mad:

So I'm now on the hunt for brake lever, clutch lever, bar end. I've been searching ebay but you're talking about 30 quid for gear lever.

Anyone know of anywhere decent for parts without getting mugged off?

yorkie_chris
02-02-09, 01:58 PM
Just put a bolt through the lever

Stig
02-02-09, 02:00 PM
I am now into my 4th week of no motorcycling at all. :(

Sosha
02-02-09, 02:06 PM
I am now into my 4th week of no motorcycling at all. :(

Least now you couldn't if you wanted to.....find myself hankering for a DT125..

Hardened Rider
02-02-09, 02:12 PM
yeah good call YC, remember seeing that somewhere, just need to buy a drill now to get the old bit out.

Ceri JC
02-02-09, 02:30 PM
I rode my brother's bike yesterday. I usually walk to work (faster than getting the bike out and getting changed into/out of kit), but must confess, I would of wussed out and taken the cage today, had I been going further afield. That said, it was 3" of snow and proper ice where cars were crashing on my road today, so I don't think anyone short of an ice racer would have been able to ride down the road without an off. :)

arcdef
02-02-09, 02:42 PM
They can't even run any trains in this & the slip road to the A3 has been closed by the Police

Not surprised, is that the one coming off the hogs back?? People take it so fast and its a fair sized hill, in the snow it wouldn't surprise me if there was a nasty accident.

wyrdness
02-02-09, 02:50 PM
I tried to get to work by car this morning, but conditions were so bad that I turned around and came back home again. There's no buses and major problems on the tube so I stayed at home.

arcdef
02-02-09, 02:51 PM
Your avatar is horrible!

Stu
02-02-09, 03:03 PM
Not surprised, is that the one coming off the hogs back?? People take it so fast and its a fair sized hill, in the snow it wouldn't surprise me if there was a nasty accident.
No, the one I saw was the on ramp northbound in Guildford near the fire station (180 degree bend going uphill). Looked like it had been closed a long time (no tracks in the snow)

wyrdness
02-02-09, 03:09 PM
Your avatar is horrible!

Mine? It's not as bad as Grinch's.

Frank
02-02-09, 03:54 PM
off work today,so went for a little ride in the sun.
Did someone say it was snowing?

ThEGr33k
02-02-09, 03:57 PM
I put I bottled it... though I only have to walk to work. LOL Though I could have gone home yesterday and come back today (ready to work tomorrow) but I didnt because I knew the weather was going to be bad, so I guess I did bottle it in a sense.

Maybe I should get a supermoto with noblies on. Oh the FUN. :mrgreen:

ogden
02-02-09, 03:58 PM
I am now into my 4th week of no motorcycling at all. :(

You need a reliable bike, mate.

Get yourself a Honda.

Nostrils
02-02-09, 04:07 PM
I was travelling along the M4/M25 to Junction 8 this morning at 6:30 and saw a rider on his Honda doing OK actually, but very surprised to see him out today. Then when I got stuck in the traffic between jct 10/9 on the M25, this guy walks past on his Sachs Racing bike and announced to truckers talking that the battery gave out on his 6 miles back! When the traffic moved again, I saw him just coming up to jct 9, he done very well. I have been told not to go to work tomorrow if it is anyway the same as today, so I have been told, so I wont go in.

Smoggy
02-02-09, 04:27 PM
We had a fair bit of snow, went for it anyway.

Was a good laugh actually.. :p
The bigger roads I use to get to work... That I assumed would have been gritted well turned out to just be a mixture of slush and compacted snow/ice.
Any thing more than an almost unmeasurable amount of throttle movement, never mind gear changes, resulted in fishtailing it down the road.

I think I'm a bit nuts, I actually like the challenge of it. :smt104

Baph
02-02-09, 04:36 PM
I think I'm a bit nuts, I actually like the challenge of it. :smt104

+1. The last time I rode on snow I fish-tailed going for an overtake uphill. So I took the beggar on the flat bit at the top. :twisted:

metalmonkey
02-02-09, 05:11 PM
Nope didn't even open the garage door, the snow is quite deep.

Why I do live on one of the only working train lines:( As the big boss had gone and used the same line, so did I. Pointless really went in, ate some food, talked and came home.

Daimo
02-02-09, 05:15 PM
Me man.

Me ride in ug ug.

Me come home early, but me drop um bikea at garage at 5mph um bongo. Me laugh, ah bum bum.

Certainly bloody not going in tomorrow though. 6" at least here :)

Neeja
02-02-09, 05:19 PM
Rode to work, the last 5 miles were fine. The first half mile was on ungritted road where the snow had all been compacted. It was bizarre...the rear-end was constantly wiggling and sliding and otherwise misbehaving, but never really felt out of control. When I finally got back onto real roads I couldn't get my head around what was going on when my tyre was actually gripping again ;)

plowsie
02-02-09, 05:31 PM
Tried and fell at the end of my road.

Seggons
02-02-09, 05:40 PM
I had the option to stay at home or take the bike to work. So I took the bike to work and to be honest I didn't find it too bad. Had 2 very close drops but just managed to keep it off the floor. If anything it was worse coming back because it was more slippy because of the slush.

I can say I've done it now so I won't be doing it again. :D

Dicky Ticker
02-02-09, 05:45 PM
Of the eleven who have used the bike today how many have got safely home without incident?
Do you live in the South East?

Just curious because you are a lot braver than me in our local conditions
[Essex] and it seems to have varied depending where you are in the country

yorkie_chris
02-02-09, 05:48 PM
Did I technically use the bike or not? Since I could not actually get onto the road...

Dangerous Dave
02-02-09, 05:51 PM
Did I technically use the bike or not? Since I could not actually get onto the road...
You made the effort, thats counts to me.

plowsie
02-02-09, 05:52 PM
I tried to ride, got half a mile and was forced into bottling it due to Suzuki's rear brake levers being made out of cheese.

Daimo
02-02-09, 06:02 PM
Do you live in the South East?

Gravesend area. We've got at least 6".

Baph
02-02-09, 07:06 PM
Of the eleven who have used the bike today how many have got safely home without incident?
Do you live in the South East?

Just curious because you are a lot braver than me in our local conditions
[Essex] and it seems to have varied depending where you are in the country

I'm still at work, and it's snowing. Still a light dusting here (maybe 2inches in some places?). The bike looks pretty in the car park. I want more snow before 11pm!!

I'm in North Wales.

Seggons
02-02-09, 07:08 PM
Of the eleven who have used the bike today how many have got safely home without incident?
Do you live in the South East?

If East Anglia (Bedfordshire) counts then I got to and from work safely. I think this was more luck then anything else, I won't be doing it tomorrow when it's all frozen over though. :D

xXBADGERXx
02-02-09, 10:19 PM
I rode in to work and got called a "Psychopath" , managed to ride home as well which was worse , can`t wait for tomorrow LOL

Seggons
02-02-09, 10:40 PM
I rode in to work and got called a "Psychopath" , managed to ride home as well which was worse , can`t wait for tomorrow LOL

If you do attempt to go by bike tomorrow Badger, do us a favour, keep it rubber side down and be careful.
Looking out on the roads we had a slush covered road which a thin layer of fresh snow has fell on. I'm guessing the slush will all freeze underneath which will make the oh so innocent soft snow quite the opposite.

xXBADGERXx
02-02-09, 10:42 PM
It`s actually turned to rain here now so it`s bound to freeze overnight then dust snow on top of it ............ I think I may call in a favour and book a day off :) , or just see what it`s like and risk it

Biker Biker
03-02-09, 03:50 PM
I rode from Snetterton to London yesterday, did a track day in the snow on sunday. The M25 was clear apart from the snow

Daimo
03-02-09, 04:35 PM
I went in today on the bike. I was at home till midday though, was far too icy.

Spent some time making a single track up the road between the houses for my bike. Got out ok after that.

Car drivers shouls be thankful, at least they will have 1 side of the car with traction now :lol:

xXBADGERXx
03-02-09, 05:50 PM
I was fairly ok til I got to work ......... it was pretty bad , got off and pushed the bike into place , wasn`t gonna risk any throttle on what I was standing on .