So fu#ken cold

**rfc85** · 3rd July 2006, 15:45

Came back from Rotovagas today,Frosty but a nice day,left @8.30 to let the road de-ice a bit.
It was cold but not really bad,stopped and put my neck warmer thingge on a couple of k's out and was all good-Then hit fog at Rainbow mountian as well as the minus 1,000,000 deg frost and fuck did it get cold,had to ride visor up as it was covered in ice,ice all over the bike and me and on my eyelashes.
Stopped twice before Taupo to get off and de-ice and hug the pipes to warm the hands up. Pasted a car that had taken a spin on the ice so I stuck to 80k as the road was bad,if it wasn't so cold I would have pulled over and let the fog clear a bit.
The ice on the visor did not melt till I was half way thru a coffee in Taupo @ macdonalds-Ive been cold before ,did 6 years in Yuru, but never ever like that,after Taupo beaut sun all the way to Foxton, even the Desert road was dry and the mountian was a picture

**Skyryder** · 3rd July 2006, 18:51

Just the joys of bikin'. Ya gota take the shit with the good stuff. Sum's on it's way then it's the joys of tar sliding. But would we have it any other way??

Skyryder

**kensuem** · 3rd July 2006, 19:34

I ride to work each morning through the Athenree gorge and my hands just about killed me last week with the heavy frosts.Then on Thursday I bought a pair of Oxford heated handlebar grips.Tried them for the first time today,and had to turn them down before Waihi as my hands were too hot!!FANTASTIC can thoroughly recomend them,especialy for someone like me with a bit of arthritis.I enjoyed my ride to work instead of feeling misserable,only wish they had been available 44years ago when I was on the road in all weathers as an AA patrol cadet in the UK !

**trumpy** · 3rd July 2006, 19:57

Passed you while heading towards Rotovegas on business (being the only bike I saw around that time) although I was a tad warmer than you driving my big green box. According to my outside temp sensor (which is remarkably accurate) it was -4 deg at the roadworks by Rainbow Mountain, and the fog didn't help much either, so yes it was firkin cold!........even for us hardened Central Plateau people! Sounds like the rest of the ride was pretty good tho'.

You left at the right time though as there was further carnage behind you with cagers spinning and rolling (rolling a 4wd in a passing lane - how do you do that??).

**JimO** · 3rd July 2006, 20:29

And there was me thinking the north island was tropical .... and did you know coastal Otago has had the sunniest June for years, dont believe everything you see on the weather tv regarding the temps in Dunedin

**Maha** · 3rd July 2006, 20:32

We even get that shit up this way, left Warkworth at 10am, beautiful day but hit the fog on H/way 16, visor fogged up so, visor up, then the sunny's fogged up, took them off and passed them back to number 1, then the eye's water but didnt freeze over.........the joy's of biking aye rfc85?
Still, around that Reparoa area and Rainbow Mountain at this time of year the fog will lift at midday and come back down at an hour later.....

**rfc85** · 3rd July 2006, 20:57

The bike was not happy with the cold either and was backfireing and surgeing all the time,carb must have been getting cold,I was more worried about my contacts-fuck it was cold

**Madness** · 3rd July 2006, 21:10

Sounds like a very memorable trip.

Once a few yeaes ago I drove to Tauranga from Hastings to buy a bike. It was around this time of year and wet all over the North Island. The ride back on an old GSX750ET was the coldest, wettest most miserable experience of my whole life, yet somehow rewarding once I got home to a hot bath.

BTW, rfc85. It's a black BA Falcoon, 14000k. Boss has nice jugs too.