Last November I was on my buddy's 83 Sabre and got caught at a customer's house during the rain. Being a chicken I waited until it was over then snuck out on the still wet streets. At one point I came up on a significant puddle. About 6" deep in the middle, and about 20' long taking up all 3 lanes from curb to curb. I slowed waaaaaaay down, made sure I had the bike lined up straight and proceeded through the puddle carefully...about halfway through a #...@!$@@!$ in a FedEx truck goes crashing through the same puddle in the lane next to me. A tidalwave of nasty oily water completely engulfed me from the side and nearly knocked me off of the bike. To say I was pissed off is an understatement. Sometimes it doesn't matter how careful you are but that's the closest I've come to drowning on a bike ;)
-Kyle On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Creative Residential Designs < [email protected]> wrote: > I was riding in my Caddy to town yesterday afternoon. I hit a storm so > bad that I hydroplaned. It was solid water... I had to slow down > considerably. It was like going thru the car wash minus the cute swishy > things that wash the car....my bike and I would have drowned! LOL! (Has > anyone drowned while driving a bike thru pouring rain? No? There's always a > first time...) > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:37 AM > *Subject:* [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: ride to work day > > Storms are fun. They're refreshing as long as you can change when you get > to your destination. > And you have an open face helmet. > > NEEDLES IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH > > -Kyle KK > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Creative Residential Designs < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> It did nothing except storm here yesterday, not that it would have >> mattered...I work out of my home ;) HotrodMamma. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Marco" <[email protected]> >> To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:14 AM >> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: ride to work day >> >> >> >> I work a fair distance away from home and haven't ridden the full trip >> yet (about 60km, all superslab, very heavy traffic), so I bailed on >> it. Not a bad idea in the end; we had rain and lightning forecast, and >> we got a big thunderstorm. >> >> If it doesn't rain one weekday - any weekday - I'm on it. >> >> Now I have to fix my upholstery so as to not embarrass myself too much >> with my rough-looking '93 NH :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Marco >> >> On Jun 8, 4:42 pm, wrenchman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > every day should be ride to work day for all of us! god made us all >> > waterproof and we can buy jackets and pants for the cold. >> > people , owning an older 'hawk is like being married, you have to love >> > her ALL the time, not just when weather permits >> >> >> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
