One News Weather

[Antallica]

Weatherlady warning about high winds and thunderstorms in the north:
"Keep your Motorcycles in the garage"

Good for some lady!
I got a job interview tomorrow and I 'aint got a car.

Surprising to hear Motorcycles being mentioned in the news however.



Oh and yay 600 posts, if only I could get than in CC rating.

[Wenier]

i was gonna post the same thing but ya bet me to it. Yea the weather turn to absolute shit aint it

[750Y]

lol, i had a full sideways lock up in the wet this morning in the ute at about 80kms. yehaaa! 8-) a pine tree had been blown over last night & completely blocked the road just round a blind corner. lucky i was in the ute or i woulda probably gone sailing into the scenery on the bike. anyway that made my day. was thinking bout taking the bike tomorrow tho.

[MikeL]

"Keep your Motorcycles in the garage"
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Well I believed the weather forecast last Friday and left the motorbike at home. Sat in a bus for 40 minutes in the morning and an hour in the evening.
Tomorrow I think I'll risk the thunderstorms and 100 kph winds. Can't be any worse.

[jrandom]

Well I believed the weather forecast last Friday and left the motorbike at home.

You big softy.

Did you perhaps worry that a breezy zephyr would catch the expansive fairings on your lightweight hyper-rocket, blowing it (and your frail self) into the path of danger?

[Lou Girardin]

100 km/h winds? A mere puff of a breeze.

[Mongoose]

100 km/h winds? A mere puff of a breeze.

Did you used to come from Welington Lou?
Got blown off the road coming over the hill (Rumatakas) one time, not a nice feeling to be in second gear and watch the front end slew sideways with no way of stopping it. The wind was so strong that for a while i could not take my left foot off the ground to clunk the Guzzi into first to get the hell outa there.

[Antallica]

Hehe 120km/h winds tomorrow apparently..... I could get blown away on my feather bike! Still remember the time I got some sideways action underneath a Helicopter taking off.

[Two Smoker]

Man shitty weather and ive got my restricted test tomorrow

[Milky]

The testing person might just feel sorry for you and give you your license without you needing to go out... That would be a bonus See... crap weather aint all bad

[Cajun]

my gixxer will be in center of auckland tomorrow 750Y

i am stuck going down northwestern motorway all week in my leathers, ahh well its not far, and with lane spliting i can do it about 20 mins from start to finsh

[NordieBoy]

The testing person might just feel sorry for you and give you your license without you needing to go out... That would be a bonus See... crap weather aint all bad

Way back when dad was getting his license (Suzi tc100) he rode from Takaka over the hill to Nelson to do the test.
The officer told him that if he rode over in that weather he could have the license but they had better make it official with some testing

[wkid_one]

Did you used to come from Welington Lou?
Got blown off the road coming over the hill (Rumatakas) one time, not a nice feeling to be in second gear and watch the front end slew sideways with no way of stopping it. The wind was so strong that for a while i could not take my left foot off the ground to clunk the Guzzi into first to get the hell outa there.

Yeah - Mangell Bung Bung and I went up there and on the second to last corner before the summit - with the white fence - the bloody wind stood the bike upright from lent over - thankfully nothing was coming the other way.

I also remember driving down the motorway on my Bandit 250 just coming to the Whakatiki turnoff, the wind was strong strong coming across the rode I had to ride on hell lean - then it fucken stopped suddenly, nearly went shooting off the road in to the toi-toi's.

[MikeL]

Well, it's 8:20 a.m. and I'm sitting in my office looking at blue skies after a pleasant ride to work.
"Leave the motorbike in the garage?" Hah!!
Now what's the forecast for this afternoon...?

[bungbung]

Yep, caning up the Himitangi straights on my bike with the inevitable roaring sidewind, I had to lean the bike on its side to keep it in a straight line. After kilometres of grassy fields I ride past a windbreak and because the sidewind suddenly dropped off I nearly rode off the road into a ditch. I haven't forgotten that lesson.