Interesting ride home last night!

Quite poetic that hun, who'd've thunk it? I only did 3 miles in it and had watched the majority of the lightening flashes from the safety of a mate's house, she was getting most upset at the thought of me going out in it! But then she did want to sort a cover for my bike when the monsoons started hehe.

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Risk of shorting stuff out. But I'm allergic to work so I gobbo absolutely everything up with silicon grease so I never have to clean it again!

Not as confident on the XJ as the intake is under the seat rather than the tank

Fixed for ya.

My annoying one with the mega P it downs this week. Coming down the motorway through what is really a waterfall. Visibility of about 10 yards max even with wipers on full.

Only one car hasn't the sense to put on the lights, after all it is daytime and you don't need them. True to form it is a beemer 3 series. As I get along side I then notice the reason for such inept driving. It is a woman, on the bloody phone. Totally oblivious to what is happening around her.

Then there were the cars piling onto the hard shoulder after hitting the 1ft deep puddle and cutting out. I got a horn behind me as my first action on exiting it was to touch my breaks to dry the damn things out. in hindsight, I guess I should have let the car up my behind dry his before I touched mine.

[Balky001]

45 degrees in the wet? Must be mad!!!

I had lightening hit my house once, blew up the TV and a large chunk of the wall where the ariel was. It was the loudest sound I've ever heard.

[Bluepete]

Reminds me of a night ride on my advanced bike course! From Betws y Coed past Snowden on BMW 1200's being blown from kerb to kerb in a lightning storm with the instructor telling me to hurry up!

Even bikes as big as those get thrown from one side of the road to the other in the midst of a good storm.

Loved every second of it!

Pete

[Red Herring]

You would be amazed just how deep the water has to be before it will actually stop you riding through it, provided it isn't actually flowing with any current that is. A group of us tried crossing a ford in Wales last year and I made it across with the water up to the headlight on my Hornet, the trick as someone has already said is not to stop...... (air intake under the seat)
We came back the following morning on the way out of the hotel and although it looked about the same depth it was flowing proper quick this time and we daren't go near it!

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

You would be amazed just how deep the water has to be before it will actually stop you riding through it, provided it isn't actually flowing with any current that is. A group of us tried crossing a ford in Wales last year and I made it across with the water up to the headlight on my Hornet, the trick as someone has already said is not to stop...... (air intake under the seat)
We came back the following morning on the way out of the hotel and although it looked about the same depth it was flowing proper quick this time and we daren't go near it!

Hmmmm. There's a decent ford near me, this sounds like a laugh...

[Red Herring]

Just don't try it if you're on your own.......what I didn't mention was that eventually one of us "failed". Stripping down to your undies in the middle of a Welsh village to help rescue a mate is the true test of friendship!

[Bluepete]

There's a photo somewhere of a very short Policeman trying to get a liveried bike back on its wheels in the middle of a ford near Chatsworth...

But I promised never to use it!

Pete

Be careful with the faster flowing fords if you're gonna go through deep water, at depth even a slight current feels like a tidal wave, I personally don't like them when it's fast flowing, I don't feel comfortable with what could be floating down stream under the water.