...there's all of his cars, then there's all of mine...OH MY!!! We like fast things on two wheels Or four... ----- Original Message ----- From: Kyle K.K. To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:53 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: ride to work day
Ouch. wait...all of your cars? curious, what have you owned? -Kyle KK On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Kyle Munz <[email protected]> wrote: V45, nice bike, almost, but not quite, as nice as my nighthawk ;) All of my cars up to this point have been turbocharged so I'm usually careful of puddles. I don't want to see what happens when a hot turbo tries to compress cold water. -Kyle On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: Ouch other Kyle. That sucks. I knew a guy who had a hypercharger on his bike and he hit a 6" puddle doing something stupid like 30mph. He thought it was shallower. Turned out, a hypercharger acts like a huge funnel and he hydrolocked his engine. Glad that didn't happen to you. what size was the sabre? v65? -Kyle KK On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Kyle Munz <[email protected]> wrote: 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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
