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aff-man
26th October 2004, 09:56
Well i had to go into tech for a measly 1.5 hours today and got bloody drenched going both ways. But why then do i have a grin from ear to ear on my face. WEll it certainly wasn't the water filling up my jacket or the cordura not being as waterproof as it should be, or even the cold starting to get to me.
IT WAS THE ROLLING BURNOUTS IN THE WET. Man i had fun bring it up to 7/8k and flick the throttle open full in first or second and wizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz there she lets go. Had a bit of fun on the weekend with these but today was great. :devil2: :love: . for some reason my tyre is seeing a bit of wear in the middle :whistle: :whistle:
(maybe thats just when it lets go during mono practice :devil2: :whistle: :blink: )
Blakamin
26th October 2004, 09:59
Good stuff.... of course it was under controlled conditions eh?? :whistle:
you need a shinko... smoke like crazy and no tyre wear....AND they dont stick in the wet!!!!!!
vifferman
26th October 2004, 10:07
.. for some reason my tyre is seeing a bit of wear in the middleTyres wear out more in the wet than the dry.
Another good thing about the wet is it washes the crap off the roads.
My gloves suck. :disapint:
aff-man
26th October 2004, 10:08
Tyres wear out more in the wet than the dry.
Another good thing about the wet is it washes the crap off the roads.
My gloves suck.
just finished wringing out my gloves. And i think the waterfall from my jacket has almost stopped :shit: :angry2:
Coldkiwi
26th October 2004, 12:34
dodgy individual! who the hecks been encouraging you to do that? :innocent:
Motu
26th October 2004, 12:58
Do that outside my place at 2.00 AM and you'll get a brick through the helmet.
aff-man
26th October 2004, 13:08
Do that outside my place at 2.00 AM and you'll get a brick through the helmet.
:Oi: :finger: . It doesn't make any more noise than usual (it's just the way i ride) :shake:
Stinger
26th October 2004, 13:16
Tyres wear out more in the wet than the dry.
How so ? Is it because the rubber is softened by the water ?
jrandom
26th October 2004, 13:24
How so ? Is it because the rubber is softened by the water ?
I hain't thunked about it much, but it makes intuitive sense. I'd imagine the level of microabrasions as the tyre slips against the road would be much greater in the wet; the tyre slips more, you see. I suppose. firestormer can correct me if I'm treeing down the wrong bark.
jrandom
26th October 2004, 13:31
Oh, yeah. The other good thing about the rain today, or at least not-bad-thing, is that my morning commute was four times faster than a colleague who left at the same time as me from an adjacent suburb (he took two hours to drive the 25km or so from Henderson to Takapuna; I, as usual, took 30 minutes to ride from Te Atatu). The snarl-ups this morning were the worst I've seen in months.
I also made it to and fro from Takapuna to Pitt Street for an 11am meeting with only 10 minutes travel time each way, through stopped bridge traffic. I had to stinky-drip on a solicitor's nice leather meeting-room seats for an hour when I got there, but I took a perverse pleasure in doing so.
vifferman
26th October 2004, 13:35
I hain't thunked about it much, but it makes intuitive sense. I'd imagine the level of microabrasions as the tyre slips against the road would be much greater in the wet; the tyre slips more, you see. I suppose. firestormer can correct me if I'm treeing down the wrong bark.Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what's what.
The wear thang was summat I read somewhere.
My sucky gloves are nearly dry now (PC monitors make good glove driers), but my helmet is still wet inside, but I'm not quite sure why. :crazy:
jrandom
26th October 2004, 13:50
My sucky gloves are nearly dry now (PC monitors make good glove driers)
I have a dual-head setup; one per monitor. Mine are almost done.
but my helmet is still wet inside, but I'm not quite sure why. :crazy:
I usually find that it's because I've absentmindedly stuffed my soaked glubs into the helmet when I climb off the bike.
Blakamin
26th October 2004, 14:08
I have a dual-head setup; one per monitor. Mine are almost done.
I usually find that it's because I've absentmindedly stuffed my soaked glubs into the helmet when I climb off the bike.
Mine dry on my PC... 7 HDDs with 3 fans each...mmmm...toasty
vifferman
26th October 2004, 14:17
Mine dry on my PC... 7 HDDs with 3 fans each...mmmm...toastyI used to have a mini-tower PC under my desk, and not only did it work well as a glove dryer, it also worked damned well to dry damp boots. Now I've got some tiny slimline Compaq thing on the desk, and apart from having headphone and USB ports on the front, it's a much less utilitarian appliance.
Luckily, my current boots are fairly waterproof.
Wonder why my helmet leaks?
Wonder if it would fall off the monitor?
Do steamrollers really roll steam? :spudwhat:
Blakamin
26th October 2004, 14:23
Wonder if it would fall off the monitor?
Do steamrollers really roll steam? :spudwhat:
wouldnt fit on my monitor... LCD
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
jrandom
26th October 2004, 14:25
Talking about leaks, I discovered today that, presumably as a result of my bin week-before-last, the right leg of my riding pants has sprung one.
Adding that to my separated left boot sole, I have two actual structural integrity breaches to add to the design flaw in my jacket-pant interface (which is fortunately negated by Jim2's parka-in-a-bag).
The water actually *pools* in my boot. It's rather unpleasant. I keep meaning to find some sort of siliconey goo that I can gob over the front o'it to keep the water out. I'm sure I've posted here and received sage advice about that before, but I only remember it on heavy-rain commuting days, so I keep forgetting to do anything about it on the weekends.
bungbung
26th October 2004, 14:34
Mine dry on my PC... 7 HDDs with 3 fans each...mmmm...toasty
Do you need to wear earplugs while using your PC?
LCD monitors don't produce enough heat to dry gloves properly (nor do they have a useful shelf for things on top)
Madmax
26th October 2004, 14:34
I dry my cloves on the Network equipment racks
(big layer 3 switchs give off a lot of heat)
Blakamin
26th October 2004, 14:45
Do you need to wear earplugs while using your PC?
LCD monitors don't produce enough heat to dry gloves properly (nor do they have a useful shelf for things on top)
nearly...loud speakers.... tried to sit here once with no music... drove me nuts!
Pwalo
26th October 2004, 15:02
Mine dry on my PC... 7 HDDs with 3 fans each...mmmm...toasty
I've got a laptop. Doesn't seem to work as well. Still nice to see all those Aucklanders moaning about rain for a change. :cool:
vifferman
26th October 2004, 15:36
I've got a laptop. Doesn't seem to work as well. Still nice to see all those Aucklanders moaning about rain for a change. :cool:Mooing.
It's more sort of a mooing, than a moaning.
And if you reread all the posts, there was actually no moaning being done, at all at all. Or mooing.
The closest thing to a moan was a comment I made about my gloves sucking. Which could actually be construed as praise, by someone who thought having gloves of the vacuuminous kind to be a good thing, like for sucking up dirt, fluff, water, etcetetetera, or for sucking onto things.
I bet SpiderMan would like sucky gloves.
But in fact, it was a complaint. Orina (henceforth known as Urina) glubs are not very good, and I look forward to relegating them to not being worn by my ungoodly self ever again, at all, at all. :finger: (A wee cartoony thing of me bidding my Urina Glubs farenotatallwell).
Hitcher
26th October 2004, 15:58
Orina (henceforth known as Urina) glubs are not very good, and I look forward to relegating them to not being worn by my ungoodly self ever again, at all, at all.
What you need are the ones with the Nibo membrane. Mrs H rode to and from the Grand Challenge, and the Grand Challenge itself with one pair of gloves. Her Orina Nibos. Yes, she has heated grips but her gloves held up well. When you consider what the weather was like in some of the various places to which we excurted that weekend, you should be impressed!
I, on both hands, was twice let down by my Alpinestars with the dooberhickey membrane and my Technics Powerskin gloves. Sodden they were, and excessively so.
On Monday, on our return to Wellington, after a long wet and frigid ride down the Desert Road, I stopped at Waiouru and grabbed hold of the exhaust pipe on my bike in an effort to warm up my sodden and frozen paws. When Mrs H arrived I was largely invisible in a cloud of steam...
Bonez
26th October 2004, 16:19
Good stuff.... of course it was under controlled conditions eh?? :whistle:
you need a shinko...AND they dont stick in the wet!!!!!!Any chance of
some links to back this up?
Coldkiwi
26th October 2004, 16:23
The water actually *pools* in my boot. It's rather unpleasant. I keep meaning to find some sort of siliconey goo that I can gob over the front o'it to keep the water out. I'm sure I've posted here and received sage advice about that before, but I only remember it on heavy-rain commuting days, so I keep forgetting to do anything about it on the weekends.
that phenomenon is quite familiar to me after the waikato ride. Rarely hapens with my road boots but the suede sides of my race boots seem to act like sponges/funnels all at once!
Blakamin
26th October 2004, 16:25
Any chance of
some links to back this up?
Ask Sparky Bills about the burnouts.... I was too busy trying to control my bike to take photos of the wet bit!
Hitcher
26th October 2004, 17:21
the suede sides of my race boots
Boots made of suede?? Multitudinous inappropriate comments pace precariously...
Jackrat
26th October 2004, 17:59
I just wear big green chemical resistant rubber gloves in the rain.
They go over my soft but not water proof leather gloves.
I hate wet hands.There is very little good about rain.
Hitcher
26th October 2004, 18:01
I just wear big green chemical resistant rubber gloves in the rain.
They go over my soft but not water proof leather gloves.
I hate wet hands.There is very little good about rain.
There were guys in the Grand Challenge who wore veterinary gloves. Oh how I laughed!! (He who leff loffs laffs lest!)
Where can I buy some??
Jackrat
26th October 2004, 18:23
There were guys in the Grand Challenge who wore veterinary gloves. Oh how I laughed!! (He who leff loffs laffs lest!)
Where can I buy some??
From your local Vet for theirs, from Protector Safty for mine.
I like mine,they wear very well and reach half way up your arm.
Hitcher
26th October 2004, 20:12
I like mine,they wear very well and reach half way up your arm.
They'd probably make a good veterinary glove! Have you got your AI practice certificate?
magnum
26th October 2004, 20:17
on ya :ride:
Milky
26th October 2004, 20:36
anyone tried those disposable plastic gloves that you use for chemical/hospital work? I imagine they wouldnt be too bad for the price, not sure how well they'd hold up to the wind pressing the water through though.
Or are the ones I am thinking of the same as the vets gloves?
Hitcher
26th October 2004, 20:42
Or are the ones I am thinking of the same as the vets gloves?
Most proctologists are happy inserting just a finger (or two). I'd be a bit worried if they wanted to bury their arm up to the pit...
jrandom
27th October 2004, 06:00
Most proctologists are happy inserting just a finger (or two).
:pinch:
Your voice of experience is always edifying, Hitcher.
vifferman
27th October 2004, 08:18
What you need are the ones with the Nibo membrane. They have got the pharking Nibo membrane. :angry2:
It's very good for keeping the water in once it finds its way in via some tiny pinhole in some obscure place.
AND I've also sprayed them with silicon too also as well.
The first thing they did was leak, then the seams failed on the back of both gloves, so I glued them up.
Given that I wear them as rarely as possible coz I hate them, they've been very crapulent.
Thank TheBikerGodz that I paid a mere two-and-a-half pittnces for 'em (as opposed to my Spidi Pro-1s, which cost 17 pittances and my left testicle). :crazy:
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