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> From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/01/04 Sat PM 01:45:22 EST
> To: ardunbill@webtv.net, Dan <dwarner@electrorent.com>,
> land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Bike riding in the snow
>
> ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:... ... Whenever it warms up enough, I jump right
>on my Ninja and grab a ride. None of that snowmobile suit stuff for me, I went
>through
> that phase, but I no longer enjoy pain. Bill
>
> Back during the "original" Gulf War, I was at Eglin AFB in Florida, but in
>all it's wisdom, the Air Force decided that my wife should be at Seymor
>Johnson AFB in North Carolina. I made the trip back and forth on my BMW 900
>about every other weekend. It was usually in the fifties and tolerable riding
>with just a good set of leathers on. My last trip up to visit her, on Sunday
>morning as I pulled out for home, it began to snow flurry a little. Then it
>snowed, then it snowed harder. By the time I got down into north Gerogia, it
>was like a blizzard combined with an ice storm. The whole front of my
>leathers caked with frozen snow (new wind tunnel testing?), and I experienced
>the coldest cold I ever felt in my life. Outside of Savannah (this was the
>deep south ???) I pulled into a gas station to get gas and coffee. As I
>rolled up to the pump, I couldn't put my feet down because the ice on the
>front of my legs was so thick I couldn't crack it to straighten my legs out.
>My!
g!
> loves were frozen to the handlebars and I couldn't get my hand out to break
>the fall as I toppled over like a toy motorcycle. I was still astraddle the
>bike in riding position (but on my side) when three or four guys came running
>over, switched off my ignition (motor was still running at about two grand),
>and lifted me back upright. I checked into the motel next door and sat it out
>for two days. I don't ride when it looks like snow anymore.
> Dick J
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