Riding at night

[vifferman]

Is that you on the scoot btw Mr Stormer on your avatar thingie?

It might be... depends who wants to know.... :cool2:

[Motoracer]

It might be... depends who wants to know.... :cool2:

Cool pic

[vifferman]

One of the crappier two-wheeled contrivances I've ever sampled. Nice smokey though...

[vifferman]

Oops... where's all the smoke gone? Must've been getting hot - me danged avatar's melted....

[Motoracer]

Kinda looks like them silly scooters with a roof now lol

[Big Dog]

:sly: being an ex POM if you dont ride in the dark you dont ride much!
black ice, in the Dark, with freezing fog! :disapint: have you ever had the snot freeze accross your face then?
Seriously I dont really think about it

Nothing like a touch of frostbite on the face to wake you up eh!

A couple of weeks ago I had to come in to work at 5.30. No prob Bob. According to the radio when I got to work -4 degrees. No prob Bob. Fog so thick the visor was fogging up on the outside. F!@# me but the wind chill really gets to you at 100kmph, with your eyelashes frozen to your eyelids. Got to work and my face looked like I had been sunbathing with a helmet on.

The following day simmilar scenario but at 7.15 so there was some sunlight I thought I would be cunning and wear my sunny's.. until the cold caused them to snap across the bridge of the nose.

[Menial]

i dont ride when its wet and cold, cos its wet and cold riding at night is great, no cars, electric air. Only problem, cant spot cops.

[Blackbird]

A lifetime ago when I was a student in the UK and bikes didn't have fairings, I used to ride a Triumph in all weathers cos that's all I had to get me about. I regularly suffered the frozen eyebrows and frozen snot routine, and can still remember the agonies of the feeling slowly returning to my fingers!

[mangell6]

Ah yes hypothermia riding, none of this fancy gear that is available nowadays.

I remember feeling the burn, either from the heat returning to your body or from holding onto the exhaust trying to defrost fingers, toes, cheeks . . . .

[Zed]

And how much daylight did you save, Zed?

Is that your attempt at witty humour or do you need an explanation?

[vifferman]

Is that your attempt at witty humour or do you need an explanation?

Is that your attempt at a witty retort?

[merv]

Its a shame you can't save the daylight to use it in the winter - Zed can your boss help us out here or should I just talk to the Maoris as they are the ones that fixed the sun up in the first place.