seasons

[Acid]

was just wondering how many people still ride their bikes in winter.

[Grahameeboy]

do we get winters in Auckland.....it is either Summer or Spring to me.......

[bugjuice]

never stop..
only one car and two of us. I have the bike license, so guess who rides come hell or shine..?

winter isn't an excuse to stop anyway. Besides, winter is months and months and many many months away yet

[ManDownUnder]

Yup - and the odo is showing it too...!

[SimJen]

Yep most of the year, some mornings if I feel tired or its really bad weather I'll take the ute. But mostly try and ride.
Wet roads make you a better rider, its weird given the fact that cars have so much rubber on the road that cage drivers drive so slowly in the wet???
Its also fun to get the back spinning up out of a corner or just accelerating away from lights etc, makes you look/sound like a legend ;)

[Str8 Jacket]

I have no cage licence or cage for that matter and I live 10 kms out of town, believe me I aint walking if I dont have to....

[Fishy]

Yep sure do but only if its not raining. Yeah yeah I know Im a pussy!. :rofl: :rofl:

[Acid]

great too see there are people who do cause i will be once it comes round

[Wolf]

As my bike is not functional I currently walk. I'm not looking forward to walking in the pissing rain of winter or shelling out money for a bus trip so if I had a functional machine I would be suited up in my wet weather gear and riding to and from work.

Always been an all-weather rider - despite gale-force winds (well, you've got to get home somehow), pouring rain, pea-soup fogs and freezing frosts (and, since this is the "wonderful" Waikato, combinations of freezing frost and pea-soup fog).

As ever, hope to get a functional before winter starts in earnest. Hmmm, deja vu - I recall posting similar this time last year. Maybe this year I'll get it.

[Wolf]

do we get winters in Auckland.....it is either Summer or Spring to me.......
Yeah, but you're a pom - anything we get here is usually better than the "summer" you're used to. :laugh:

On that topic, do you happen to know which day they're planning to have summer this year in the UK?

[Pwalo]

I always commute on the bike, year round. Faster than the car, cheaper than public transport. And a bloody sight more fun!

Good gear, tyres, etc and it's not an issue.

[Str8 Jacket]

Always been an all-weather rider - despite gale-force winds

Yeah, have to admit that Ive left my bike at home once before and that was due to gale-force winds. Damn Welly weather!

[Grahameeboy]

Yeah, but you're a pom - anything we get here is usually better than the "summer" you're used to. :laugh:

On that topic, do you happen to know which day they're planning to have summer this year in the UK?

Hey I am not a POM you you you.......

Summer in UK..........:sunny: ......mmmmmm.......actually would you spent a week climbing in the Scottish Highlands and it was a scorcher in September.......

[imdying]

Yeah, have done for years. Shows on the bike though, I've been trying to use the car more over the last couple of years. Really need a rat bike to commute on :/

/edit: Funny story... When I went to sit the practical part of my learners all those years ago, I was on a Honda DJ1 scooter wearing thick wooly fingerless gloves. It snowed, which sucked, and then it hailed. Oh the pain on my poor fingers! Made sure I had new jacket/helmet/boots/gloves before I got my 250, wish I'd had them earlier!

[Smokin]

Yep, come Rain, Hail or Snow I'm bound to be in the middle of it coz the mrs has the car :brick:

[Cajun]

I ride rain hail or shine.

I have writen in gale force winds, when tauranga was been flooded (on a brand new rear michelin).

I personally have more fun riding in the wet. Alot about riding in the wet is just being smooth, you be surpised lean angles you can get in the wet and like, just gotta watch for the shiny and rainbow parts of road), and the roads are worse when they a 'damp' or just after it as rained.

[Charlie]

This will be my 1st winter with a bike... so ask me in 6 mths time.
Intention is to ride it; Its not riding in the rain that bothers me. Its the Welly wind (is bad enough in SUMMER!).
I do have the luxury of taking the car if I get soft... :cold:

[Sniper]

I still ride in winter. Rode the day it snowed, wasn't cool

[bugjuice]

yeah, I think I'd draw the line at snow and ice..

I've hit black black ice in the car a few times in the UK and didn't really rate my chances. I got away with it tho. Would not have liked the odds on a bike tho

[Fishy]

Shit that must have been tricky on road tyres!.

[Wolf]

Yeah, have to admit that Ive left my bike at home once before and that was due to gale-force winds. Damn Welly weather!
If it's full gale force wind I won't go out at all unless it's urgent but there's not a lot you can do if the storm comes up while you're out and you have to get home somehow. Fucking arse-clenching moments in a full-on gale with rain.

[onearmedbandit]

Rain, snow, sleet, ice, sunshine, gale force winds, I've ridden in it all and always will. (although lets face it, freezing cold day with rain and you need to pop over to the shops to pick up something, think I'll take the car with it's heated leather seats thank you.)

[jeremysprite]

I learnt to ride in the winter, in Queenstown, in the ice, in the gravel. And yes, I did fall over, stupid gravel trucks. Guess its better than ice though.

[Ixion]

Rain or shine, hot or cold, gale or calm. Only thing I would draw the line at is ice. Or tornados

[Jantar]

I ride to work all through the winter, but fewer long rides. The bike does stay in the shed for snow on the ground, black ice, or air temperatures below -6. Frosty mornings down here are usually nice and :sunny: .

[Edbear]

Last Winter was so mild I was able to ride pretty often. I have no probs with all weather riding, but my 30 year old, (Thinsulate), gloves are not what they used to be so will probably update them soon. Was hosed by a Porsche last Winter in the really wet! He had four large tyres and a really wide stance on the road, so I wasn't keen to try to take him on. :mellow:

[oldrider]

Yes, as some one on here used to say in their signature.

Ive done a course in all of that! :blip:

I noticed last year I was getting a little more "picky". :bye:

Think I'm starting to feel my age! :shit: Cheers John.

[avgas]

Previously ive worked/partied most summers. And on the days off im driving people round.
So most of my riding is in winter.

[Oakie]

Well the roads are still there in winter so .... yep.

[Bandit Rider]

All year, never stopped for weather.