Has anyone actually been blown off their bike?

**Hinny** · 4th July 2008, 09:14

Originally Posted by 007XX

Boiling down to the riding technique having more to do with it than actual corporeal characteristics...

Nah! Fat bastards are always more stable..

Not quite...my name is not Veronica Pygmea.[/quote]

I suspect it may be Veronica Filiformis - Threadstalk SpeedWell

**cruza** · 4th July 2008, 09:17

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Was it broken before the train fell on it?

They get huge winds thru that area at times, valleys are like wind tunnels, some of the viaducts have side protection to reduce the wind.

**007XX** · 4th July 2008, 09:45

Originally Posted by Hinny

I suspect it may be Veronica Filiformis - Threadstalk SpeedWell

For a second there, I thought you were calling me a bad weed...til I googled Threadstalk Speedwell of course

**Mental Trousers** · 4th July 2008, 10:32

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

As for the times I have been blown over lanes, yes they were and now are avoidable. In wgtn you learn really fast to keep ya revs high, arms loose and knees nicely resting firmly on the tank. Also keeping your distance from other vehicles around you on the road helps alot to!

Spot on. You'll find that putting lots of weight on the downwind foot peg (wind from the left stand on right footpeg) helps too.

Riding 1 gear down keeps the revs up and more revs means more spinning mass and much more stable.

Arms loose and knees holding the tank is how people should be riding pretty much all the time.

**rocketman1** · 4th July 2008, 21:11

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Ive been blown off a dead straight road into a grass ditch by a gust of wind. I have also been blown over onto the road by a gust while turning a corner. Ive been blown into grass bushes by gusts of winds and I have been blown all over the motorway. I know I aint the only one that this has happened to either!. Howevere..... since ive put on almost 20 kilos in the past year, it hasnt happened again?!
Im more scared of the wind than the rain, that's for sure!

Mate you are one really blown guy, you could call yourself a blow-n job specialist

**McJim** · 4th July 2008, 21:18

Originally Posted by klingon

Do people actually get blown off their bikes? Or is it just a chance for the authorities to get all over-excited and dramatic?

Well I have to admit that every time I've been blown I've not been on my bike

so I suppose that qualifies as being blown off my bike. To be quite honest I'd be surprised to find if someone had been blown ON their bike. I'd be worried I'd drop it.

**Smoggy** · 4th July 2008, 23:22

Originally Posted by klingon

Once more The Powers That Be are warning us to leave our motorbikes at home in the crazy weather.

Like many others, I ride over the Auckland Harbour Bridge twice a day. The other day there were wind warnings on the overhead signs, but the Volty and I just cruised on over with no problems. There was a police wagon in front of me and he kept checking me in his mirrors - I think he secretly wanted the excitement of seeing me blown over the edge.

Do people actually get blown off their bikes? Or is it just a chance for the authorities to get all over-excited and dramatic?

A few years ago, when living in the UK, I was on my way to Stranraer, to get the ferry over to N.Ireland. Was riding my ST1100 then, and spent the last 100km riding at an angle of around 45 degrees - or very close there to. It was interesting.

**Hinny** · 5th July 2008, 10:41

Originally Posted by 007XX

For a second there, I thought you were calling me a bad weed...til I googled Threadstalk Speedwell of course

Well you are very speed y to talk (post) to new threads.

**Biggles2000** · 5th July 2008, 13:15

A few years ago on my Triumph 1200 Trophy, two up with all the gear, coming back from the Brass, heading back to Wellington, just north of Blenheim, in a storm I was hit by such a strong and sudden gust of wind that I pulled my wrist out of its socket trying to hold the bike on the road. Didn't go down but i did have to find a doc in Picton the next day cause of the pain and swelling. Gave my wife the sh1ts who to this day won't go out in the wind on a bike.

**LittleAngel** · 5th July 2008, 20:28

When I had the trusty GN I used to hate the wind.. Used to scare the crapper out of me.

Since Ive been riding bigger bikes it hasn't been a problem.

Until... I was riding a few weeks ago through Dunsandel and was minding my own business when I started passing a few cars etc, came around the bend and decided to pass a bus, was half way through passing when a sideways gust came along!

Was soo strong I started to get the wobbles. Thankfully at the time I didn't panic and just buttoned off a bit and pulled in front of bus (going slower than I was planning!! probably annoyed the shit out of the bus driver!! and cagers behind me!!) and paid more attention to what was going on! :slap:

Hard to hang on to the bike yet keep relaxed arms etc! Wasn't till I was a bit further down the road and the wind had settled that I realised that it could have been a whole different scenario!!

**ajturbo** · 5th July 2008, 22:43

there was this one time, a BIG group of us were heading off to the brass monkey...

it was a "bit" windy

front guy was on FJ1200
next guy was 2 up on XJ650 turbo
i was next on my 750....

we were all leaning into the wind on the straight road, when i noticed the front guy suddenly get pushed to edge of the road (our side), so i slowed down.....

the guy on the turbo didn't have a chance, the wind pushed him of the road and onto the grass verge, there was nothing he could do, i had vissions of him getting tangled up in the wire fence, so slowed even more, i reached the smae point on the road and was nearly in the grass also... why i didn't? i have no idea...

the turbo guy,( said later), that he had no other option but to grab a big handfull of throtle and hope for th ebest... the turbo kicked in and some how he got back on the road,...... slowed us down for a couple of K's.....

**nico** · 6th July 2008, 08:09

2day is one windy ass day got blowen around abit on way to work i think someone mentened it b4 but the vfr awsome in head on wind cut slike hot knowfe thru butter but down side is a really good sail inc fat bastard riding for side wind good leg workout squesing that tank lol

**InsaneSpeedDemon89** · 24th October 2008, 19:59

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Ive been blown off a dead straight road into a grass ditch by a gust of wind. I have also been blown over onto the road by a gust while turning a corner. Ive been blown into grass bushes by gusts of winds and I have been blown all over the motorway. I know I aint the only one that this has happened to either!. Howevere..... since ive put on almost 20 kilos in the past year, it hasnt happened again?!
Im more scared of the wind than the rain, that's for sure!

Me 3!
Motorways a bitch and one of those corners on the rimutakas gets the wind real good... causing expensive repairs, luckily the cars following stopped.