Fenweasal
I'm sure that all the Wellington bikers are aware but if you haven't ventured outside yet it's blowing a southerly gale, and raining for Africa.
SH2 between Wellington and Petone is great heading North, but there's a bit of underlying water so take care. Man I'm glad I waterproofed my overtrous and gloves, and wore my rubber over booties this morning.
Fair weather rider
Flooding all over the show today.....
...and definately feeling for the chap heading west along the Petone esplanade, on a cruiser type bike. Looked to be broken down, saw a couple of flashes from the exhaust (right side only?).
Hope ya got it going again ok, woulda stopped but I was running real late for work
cheers
Adam
Forum whore
Yup - I think the drought is broken.... (sigh)
needs to work harder
Good god, that was nasty. Traffic was backed up all the way from the basin reserve, through the tunnel, down to evans bay, along cobham drive and down to about half way along the airport runway.
In other words about 95% of my commute this morning was done lane splitting, very gently, in rain and "fuck me" wind. The good news is I'm still alive. The bits of my hoodie that stuck out from under my jacket are drenched though.
Dave
addicted to racing
It's a good thing my bike's out of commission for a while. That'l stop me from being tempted to ride in this. Well done to all of you who have
Freakin' hippy
I've just moved to Wellingon. So when does it stop with the rain and wind?
Determined to kill my bike before it kills me
Forum whore
Late November Steam.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Highway Biker
Likewise. The sun will come back when my bike does.Originally Posted by phoenixgtr
on the up
You gotta love those equinoxical gales!
Bugger me, I'm wet. Lucky I brought a change of clothes...
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Forum whore
Oh, it'll run out of Steam I expect!
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
Forum whore
More like late jan early feb..... sigh - not good out there eh? I'm quite glad the bike was busted this weekend - a real PS2 weekend for sure.
com-mute
Interesting ride in this morning.
Hope I didn't scare too many cagers, but to give them their due, they were making lots of room down the centre for an semi-in-control bike.
It ain't often i think about turning around, but this morning I did (only cos I forgot my keys). But i didn't think long before I decided this was more fun than i can wave a stick at, so I continued ;-)
Motorbike only search
YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - CRC AND DUCT TAPE. IF IT DOESN'T MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE CRC. IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE DUCT TAPE
Slowest cnut in the Bay
A mate of mine from Welly emailed me....he got blown across to the other lane nearly ending up in the side of a SUV.
Hardcore Biker
Must be why they call it Windy Wellington.
Deus ex ukulele
Somebody took Mrs H's bike into WMC today for a 24,000km service. And then brought it safely home again. Somebody has experienced the delights of today's weather at both ends of the working day. Lovely.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks