Posted by sleazy rider on January 24, 2008, 4:20 pm
said:
>
>> I don't see the problem. �Gear up properly!
>
> 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.
Oh, what a crock. If the roads were that bad after every rain, you
might as well sell the bikes. I'm quite sure it rains more than once a
month out there. I call bullshit, but then again, it's you posting, so
it's a given.
--
sleazy
R1150GSA - "Terminator"
Trophy 1200 - "The Fast One"
Posted by Jeff Mayner on January 24, 2008, 10:44 pm
sleazy rider wrote:
> said:
>>
>>> I don't see the problem. ?Gear up properly!
>>
>> 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.
> Oh, what a crock. If the roads were that bad after every rain, you
> might as well sell the bikes. I'm quite sure it rains more than once
> a month out there. I call bullshit, but then again, it's you
> posting, so it's a given.
We're in a 4 or 5 year drought. The rain we're getting now is the most in
years and it's still not enough to make a dent in the deficit.
Hell, there was a couple of inches of slush on the ground this evening when
I went to pickup my daughter from school. Looked like snow at first. A major
"wtf" moment around these parts. ;-)
Posted by =?KOI8-R?B?9sTq1uzJ7Objxv0=?= on January 25, 2008, 12:23 pm
> sleazy rider wrote:
> > Oh, what a crock. �If the roads were that bad after every rain, you
> > might as well sell the bikes. �I'm quite sure it rains more than once
> > a month out there. �I call bullshit, but then again, it's you
> > posting, so it's a given.
> We're in a 4 or 5 year drought. The rain we're getting now is the most in
> years and it's still not enough to make a dent in the deficit.
An area that gets less than 10 inches of rain is a desert. Southern
California is a densely-inhabited desert that gets most of its water
from the Colorado Rockies.
According to AOL news, "By Friday morning, Long Beach had received
2.43 inches of rain, compared to 2.1 over the previous 12 months,
Meier said. Downtown Los Angeles had received 2.25 inches and Santa
Barbara was drenched with 5.4 inches."
Santa Barbara county's wettest area is Old Man Mountain, a little bit
northeast of Lake Casitas, near Ojai. I used to live in the Ojai area.
When OMM gets pounded by rain, it seems like it's never going to stop,
but there is a natural drainage system for the excess run off that
doesn't get to the lake. The Ventura River and the deep natural
ditches callled "barrancas" feed the water to the river to the ocean.
The coastal hills around Southern California are steeper than the
typical hills in other parts of the country, and the hard packed soil
doesn't soak up the moisture, so the water doesn't immediately get to
the water table, it runs off rapidly in flash floods that will run
uselessly down the storm drain system into the ocean.
Whatever the mountains and brush does soak up will run across the
roads in the Santa Monica mountains for weeks after the storm is over.
Posted by Turby on January 25, 2008, 1:50 pm
>Oh, what a crock.
Of course. It's Krusty.
>If the roads were that bad after every rain, you
>might as well sell the bikes.
>I'm quite sure it rains more than once a month out there.
Akshewly, last year it rained 3.56" in San Diego. AIR, we went ~160
days without rain.
--
Turby the Turbosurfer
Posted by =?KOI8-R?B?9sTq1uzJ7Objxv0=?= on January 25, 2008, 3:55 pm
> Akshewly, last year it rained 3.56" in San Diego. AIR, we went ~160
> days without rain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Climate
Technically, San Diego has a steppe climate, with average
precipitation barely exceeding the 10 inches that would classify it as
a desert.
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>> I don't see the problem. �Gear up properly!
>
> 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.