Horror movie fog!

[hellokitty]

sounds scary! Especially hitting a rabbit, lucky you didn't crash!
Good experience though (says she who has only ridden through tiny pockets of very minor fog during the day)

[Mom]

and actually quite scary (yeah, I'm a sook) while "the fog"

Now that sounds really crappy to me. Completely understand the no show, and very, very pleased you got home in one piece. I am picking you are feeling much healthier than me today too, which is always a bonus.

[Katman]

Anyways, what is the worst fog you've ever ridden through? I would think this was less than 20 feet visibility for me last night. What's your fog horror story?

You wanna try some freezing fog.

[zealchick]

well done:-) I drove a friend home (yes in the car) on Friday night to whenuapai, the fog was really bad too and i was driving at about 50-60kms through it, all the time thinking thank god i'm not on my bike tonight!! although given that i didn't have to comcentrate quite as hard.... my imagination did run a little wild..... was glad to get home
I was on the nass ride with pdath a month or so back it was pretty hairy

[Blinkwing]

Sounds like the kind of crap weather you pray you never get into.

A friend of mine was riding in another friend's cage .. from Taupo to Auckland. Visibility less than one metre, and it was pissing down, cage had bald tyres. Passenger-slash-friend has stated that it was the worst ever driving experience and he's never getting in the car ever again.

[2wheeldrifter]

All the way home was bloody freezing, and actually quite scary (yeah, I'm a sook) while "the fog"

You may of been riding in the clouds as well PB

Has been bad, went over the Kaimai's about 3pm last week and low cloud couldn't see F all... tow truck sitting and waiting... as he normaly is in shitty weather.

[2wheeldrifter]

You wanna try some freezing fog.

Rode around the Lake on Thrusday.. shit the wind was cold in your town! surprised NOT lol

[sleemanj]

Not ridden in fog that bad that I can remember not for any length of time anyway, often can get quite thick in the Rangiora area, but only the short sections of low-lying road usually where it "pools".

Certainly however have driven in fog where I couldn't see more than perhaps 3 to 4 meters, notably around the summit road to Gebbies Pass on the Port Hills in chch at night, (so I guess it's more cloud than fog) - longest drive I ever took around the summit, top speed about 30 kmh and totally surreal, no idea where you were, just following the couple of meters of road you could more or less see in front, total white out otherwise. It seemed like a good idea when I started it, about 1/2 way through I realized it wasn't as fun as I thought it would be.

Somebody in an earlier post mentioned "with high beams", maybe it's an illusion but in fog I always use the lowest beam possible, otherwise it just whites-out reflecting back to you. In the car if it's really bad I'll use fog-lamps only if it has them, no main beams, I don't know if it's the amber colour or the fact that they are closer to the ground (in the MX5 they are practically on the ground), but always seems to give much better visibility.

[CookMySock]

Woah you sucked in a big dose of HTFU there PB. Well done!


Steve

[doc]

You wanna try some freezing fog.

Sibling rivalry

[nodrog:Me]

Yes my first ride with the freindly Tauranga crew was on Saturday at 2.30pm over to the Oakorory Hotel, brilliant sunshine in Tauranga. Got to the top of the Kaimai ranges and it was 20m visibilty at best, and it didnt get much better at the hotel. I could not believe how cold and dark it was on such a beautiful day.

Thankyou.

[Katman]

Sibling rivalry

Well, there was no point using the "my cock's bigger than yours" line.

[CookMySock]

Well, there was no point using the "my cock's bigger than yours" line.

You don't have a cock?


Steve

[doc]

Well, there was no point using the "my cock's bigger than yours" line.

Oh forgot about the strapon

[Grubber]

Worst i have ridden in was a fast trip (mercy mission, wife in hospital) home for South island. Got off boat in Welly around 9pm and road through the night back to Aucks.
Was around end of July and hit the fog about Tirau. Yuk. Pea soup with about 3 metres in front and all the way back as far as Mercer. Minus 4 at Hamilton. Brrrrr.
Used to do plenty of fog in South Island years ago when i lived there but it was the cold icy roads that made for a hard ride down the in the Winter.
Sometimes wonder when it is we're suppose to stay at home and stop trying to be invincible hairy arse d bikers.