600 mile service - Page 3

 
: Been trying since Sunday to put 200 miles on my CBR ...
: Rain all week and forecast says rain through the weekend.

I don't see the problem.  Gear up properly!

Justin
'07 Suzuki SV650
'02 Honda Shadow VT750DC

 Living in So. Calif  like Jeff does, The weather is not what bothers me. I
don't mind riding in the rain. It's the crazy cagers that get even more
crazy when you add water.

David White

 David White wrote:

That's a roger. I'll ride in the rain if I get caught out but I avoid it if
I can. I like to commute back and forth to work and the cold doesn't get me
but I'll keep the hell out of the rain.

 Justin wrote:

But it's cold!  (50's)  ;-)

 

If you lived in Southern California, you would understand why riding a
sportbike in rainy weather just doesn't work well.

The canyons and mountains where a sportbike would be most at home will
have rock slides and mudslides and flooding, and the roads will
develop huge potholes.

For about a month after the rains stop, there will be gravel and rocks
all over the
back roads. Even the nearby Santa Monica mountains won't be a decent
place to ride until March. There will be water running out of the
hillsides, across the road.

The alternative is to get out and ride the freeways in the rain, and
enjoy the automated carwash effect, when thousands of cars mix
rainwater with the oil, automatic transmission fluid, antifreeze, etc
and that leaves a grey film all over a motorcycle.

Further north, in central California, a lot of mountain roads in the
Sierra foothills are closed due to snow.