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01-03-2018, 09:29 AM | #1 |
Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Berkhamsted
Bike: M796
Posts: 1,398
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Beasts from the East
This guy would still ride in with the light smattering of snow we are having.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4irRAZ8hkgQ
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01-03-2018, 12:46 PM | #2 |
Lord of the Rings
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Norwich
Bike: M900sie
Posts: 5,859
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Well he's got more balls than me!
My front tyre let go a couple of weeks ago, on a dry road! I put it down to frozen tyres, as I couldn't see anything to slip on. Used to have to ride in everything when I was an apprentice over 40 years ago. I remember riding through knee high virgin snow one night going home from work.... There where little cones of snow building up on my knee caps, but I was still flat out on my moped. I thought, so what if I do fall off, it will be a soft landing... Hardest thing will be finding the bike again!
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01-03-2018, 01:29 PM | #3 |
Transmaniacon MOC
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Sutton In Ashfield
Bike: Multiple Monsters
Posts: 6,043
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He's brave and stupid. The 2 times I've been off have been in snow too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwP6XoivEVg
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Roast Beef Monster! Termignoni and Bucci - Italian for pipe and slippers! S4 Fogarty, S4R 07T, 748, Series 1 Mirage |
01-03-2018, 05:37 PM | #4 |
Gold Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: widnes
Bike: M1100s
Posts: 780
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Finding the bike wasn't the problem that I used to have all those years ago it was going for a Jimmy riddle...
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01-03-2018, 05:57 PM | #5 |
Transmaniacon MOC
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Sutton In Ashfield
Bike: Multiple Monsters
Posts: 6,043
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I certainly wouldn't recommend an RGV250 in the snow, the power is too snappy, back end swung around so fast I just hit the deck. I did fair better with my old Z550 2 up we did about 10miles on an A road in a blizzard before I turned onto a B road and it just slid from under me in the snow for no apparent reason. BMW K100 was ok if you take it real steady.
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Roast Beef Monster! Termignoni and Bucci - Italian for pipe and slippers! S4 Fogarty, S4R 07T, 748, Series 1 Mirage |
01-03-2018, 06:24 PM | #6 |
Too much time on my hands member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Forest Of Dean
Bike: S2r
Posts: 3,203
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I always found the 750, and I think the S2R, was a treat to ride in the snow. It's that low seat height and the flat torque curve.
I dud one run through the forest of dean where I couldn't see the sides of the road, they just merged in with the forest, We chugged up some nice steep hills too. The 748 would be an absolute disaster though!
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"The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature |
01-03-2018, 06:56 PM | #7 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Kent
Bike: M796
Posts: 510
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fair play to him !
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01-03-2018, 07:38 PM | #8 |
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Finding the bike wasn't the problem that I used to have all those years ago it was going for a Jimmy riddle...
no problems these days geoff... |
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