True rider or girl's blouse in today's weather?

[Swoop]

Well the weather is somewhat betterer down here today... but as you can see i have a valid excuse for not being out

Ohhhh! One of those new-fangled hover bikes!
Thunderbirds had it right all those years ago.

[Wiki Drifter]

Did the c-loop counter-clockwise today. Thank jeebus I was wearing my 1 pc rain suit

Did I catch any KBers?

[TOTO]

Did the c-loop counter-clockwise today. Thank jeebus I was wearing my 1 pc rain suit

Did I catch any KBers?

The Last one very much looks like Macstar doing the coro with nagash

Sad i was stuck at work

[MD]

Shit MD. I only managed 3hrs but I made it intense with an act of extreme stupidity on the Rimutakas that nearly saw me wearing a red car. Or at least I think it was red. I did try and even it up though by dobbing in a diesel spilling horse truck. Wank stain put diesel on every right hand corner on the northern side of the hill. Hope he got pepper sprayed, battoned and water-boarded.

Yeah that spill was the talk up the hill for the arvo. Easy to see it and avoid though.
Sitting up the summit carpark and within 10 minutes of each other a car overtakes another car right at the curve around the summit carpark!
First idiot was heading North and both he and the opposing car he nearly head-on collided with, had to come to a complete STOP, ..bumper to bumper!

Then another dick going south overtakes on the bend, most of the curve on the wrong side, totally blind to head on traffic. We just couldn't believe our eyes. Absolute suicidal.

Still, back on topic. It was a brilliant warm day for June. We moved tables at the Flying Fish..because it was too hot in the sun!!

[Macstar]

Did the c-loop counter-clockwise today. Thank jeebus I was wearing my 1 pc rain suit

Did I catch any KBers?

Hey that's me! I wasn't wearing a rain suit... Saoked to the bone!

[Blackbird]

Yeah, each to their own as far as I'm concered. Bike was only form of transport in Scotland for years but being honest, had I a car when it was snowing and $hit I certainly would have driven it. Guess some would say that doesn't make me a real biker but as you say...fuggem!

Blackbird....the cheap alternative to 42 Below vodka is called STIL. Strangely the Stil website is all about 42 below. Maybe it's not meant to be sold in New Zealand...I dunno.

http://www.stilvodka.com/enter.sm

Right on Steevie A bike was my only form of transport when I was a student in the UK so I had to ride in snow and black ice a lot! Must admit these days I'm a fair weather rider by choice but it doesn't take long to dial back into wet mode.

Hey, thanks for the vodka recommendation. will ask Jennie to keep her eyes open as she's off to Melbourne next week.

Cheers,

Geoff

[sinfull]

See on the radar you guys are a tad wet up that ways again today !
Not spose to reach here till nightfall, so i might just clock up another few hours today seeing its absolutely stunning out there again !

[scumdog]

Foggy early morning, cool but calm sunny day here now.

[Blackbird]

See on the radar you guys are a tad wet up that ways again today !
Not spose to reach here till nightfall, so i might just clock up another few hours today seeing its absolutely stunning out there again !

Hahaha - a tad wet is an understatement. I've just gone next door to feed the neighbour's cats and got soaked through in the first 10 metres! Enjoy your ride

[vifferman]

I've been riding since I was 16 - 43 now and all my riding is in fine weather now days (read no rain) unless caught out on a tour etc. I don't mind the cold and I'm out all winter provided its not raining.

What I get sick of is this 'real biker' shit. If being a real biker is suffering shit weather and complaining about it then fart fart fart to them all.

Frankly the whole 'biker' term can stay in American as far as I'm concerned - I consider my self a motorcyclist - for life - as it has been all my adult years.

Hmmm... I dunno.
I've been riding now since about '73, and I've ridden in all weathers (torrential rain, with the road several inches deep in water; snowing; hail; fog; etc etc) and in heat, cold, whatever.
It used to be that I rode because I really loved it, and had no choice anyway (no car), and at one stage I did have a car, but rode no matter what, just to prove something perhaps. Now I ride when I feel like it, and take the car if I feel like it.
So what?
Am I a real biker? A motorcyclist through-and-through?
I dunno.
I often feel like a fraud when I'm with other motorcyclists, but I dunno why. Maybe it's because I rarely ride just for fun?
I rode in the rain today, but maybe it didn't count, because I was warm'n'dry.
A far cry from having to tip water out of my boots and gloves, and wring my jacket out, and having to dry the inside of my helmet. But much nicer.

[Ixion]

The ride in to werk today was OK. If the weather dude is to be believed, the ride home may be more interesting.

All part of life's rich tapestry.

Fortunately, some years ago I discovered a trick process to waterproof my skin. So now it doesnt leak.

Just mix beeswax and turpentine in equal volumes, add about a cupfull of borax, and boil yourself in it for about an hour. No more leaks.

[vifferman]

No more leaks.

Does that mean you can't drink beer anymore, if you can't take a leak?

[Morcs]

surely taking a ducati out in the rain isnt the best idea?

thank god for the boys in yellow eh.

[jrandom]

... mix beeswax and turpentine in equal volumes, add about a cupfull of borax, and boil yourself in it for about an hour.

Y'know, that explains quite a lot.

[glice]

yea we did the loop yesterday. you should have seen macstars home made rain coat out of a plastic bag, it was ripped to shreds within minutes and then looked like a cape!