Windy day riding

[FROSTY:Me]

I met up with Firefight and Andrew at Autobahn at 1.00 ish to day for a quiet ride in the country.
A couple of interesting factiods.
1 A Gtr1000 does not make a good back road scratcher.
2 A Gtr1000 with a hull attached would make a great sailing boat given its ability to sail sideways across a slippery road with a decent wind gust.
3) GTR1000's have a built in throttle shutting devise that shuts the throttle when large trucks turn in front of them on blind corners.
4)Black plastic rubbish sacs do NOT make very good visor material -This especially aplies when trav elling at 100km/h
in rush hour traffic.

[FROSTY:Me]

Ohh and Andrew and Firefight are good sports -riding at my -read very slow -pace

[mangell6]

Mate threw his GTR1000 around like a trail bike . . . . when he had to avoid a cager that went through a Give Way when he was on the open road. I suppose that the wind was a mild Wgtn breeze, around 30kms.

Good to see that the day was eventful, could have been real boring

[FROSTY:Me]

I think it was 60km/h winds -but im not sure

[Firefight]

I think it was 60km/h winds -but im not sure

was 60 knts this am and about 14.00hours.

Now down to 35 gusting 50 knts.

F/F

[Motoracer]

Landings would have been a bit of a mission I'd imagine at the airport.

[Lord Pac]

pretty gusty today!

where did you guys head?

[FROSTY:Me]

well best ask FF about that -i got lost 5 minutes into the ride.
I know we ended up at maraitai
I know it was a nice quiet ride
I know FF actually let me in front -probably thinking the whale would act as a wind break

[Firefight]

pretty gusty today!

where did you guys head?

Hey Paco, now if Only I could do that cut and paste shit, I would be able to give you alink, but I can't, so maybe one of the geeks, opps sorry, maybe one of the IT folk can do one for you to save you having to wade through screeds of posts, just to find out where we went today.

F/F, ps are you around for any of this weekends fun ?

[Lord Pac]

saw it on another thread- nice ride!

[Lord Pac]

Hey Paco, now if Only I could do that cut and paste shit, I would be able to give you alink, but I can't, so maybe one of the geeks, opps sorry, maybe one of the IT folk can do one for you to save you having to wade through screeds of posts, just to find out where we went today.

F/F, ps are you around for any of this weekends fun ?

shifting houses this weekend so will be a litte tied up. will swing by the KB BBQ V3 for an ale.

[Zed]

...A Gtr1000 with a hull attached would make a great sailing boat given its ability to sail sideways across a slippery road with a decent wind gust.
3) GTR1000's have a built in throttle shutting devise that shuts the throttle when large trucks turn in front of them on blind corners.
4)Black plastic rubbish sacs do NOT make very good visor material -This especially aplies when trav elling at 100km/h
in rush hour traffic.

Sounds like you nearly binned it Frosty? I'm glad you didn't.

I felt the winds beating on my cage on the way home from work tonight - they kept waking me up as I was nodding off while dribbling along with the motorway traffic...talk about a major difference in mind concentration between driving a cage and riding a sickle!

[FROSTY:Me]

I dont think so .but a plastic bag wrapped arount the helmet was scarey.I just couldn't remember how close I was to the car in front
The truck thing was freakey--Like Im serious here -for no reason I shut off the throttle completely just as I was coming around that blind corner. Really weird

[Firefight]

shifting houses this weekend so will be a litte tied up. will swing by the KB BBQ V3 for an ale.

No, will still ride, no to BBQ

F/F

[FROSTY:Me]

say FF you guys missed the fun. A plastic rubbish sack flew down from a motorway bridge.blew up my screen and wrapped around my helmet. scarey for about 10 hours -or a microsecond