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'cause it ain't worth it. Idk about the bay side, but the coast is getting hit hard-trees down, power out, real high winds and I'm fairly sure at one point, hail.

I had to ride today. Street cleaning.....yeah, I know.

It was bad yesterday. I made the mistake of leaving the cover on the Yamaha, with the top case on as well. The cover acted like a sail and knocked the bike on its side in my company's San Mateo parking lot. Minimal damage...just a windscreen. But freaky.

I considered it, but my lovely wife gave me a withering, "are you some kind of idiot?" look that prompted me to see if the car is still in running order.

Today, I am glad my wife doesn't let me commuting daily on a bike.
"been there, done that" But I am too old for this shit now.

Be carefull on the road, guys.

I was talkin' about this to the Blonde as we drove in today.  Too many deep puddles/flooding out there to be traveling at anything close to freeway speed while on two wheels.  You don't have much control when you're hydroplanig.

Tomorrow is gonna be worse as the ground is already saturated.  Be safe, all.   [moto]

Guess I'm in the "retarded" camp.  Very windy, very rainy. Less than ideal riding conditions.   [coffee]

I brought two pairs of gloves and socks so that I have a dry set on the way home.  I'm golden. 

Was there flooding on the freeways?

a little bit... a few inches at the toll plaza and of course the Western span of the upper deck had it's usual standing water, as it always does whenever it rains.  The wind blows harder on that side too.  Worst part was just before the island--for some reason there are some really nasty updrafts there.  It's disconcerting on the bike.  It was so powerful that it blew rain up under my visor--which was snapped shut.  WTF?!  I kept my RPM up and my head down--seemed to work OK for getting through it.  

Fek, then there's the lightning. Anyone else have their house rocked last night. Dang, the windows shook, trees blew over, I was looking out the window for the Wicked Witch of the West!

Yep I got one like that: it triggered all the cars alarms in the street!
Impressive!

I got more wet walking from BART to the office than if I had just rode.  The umbrella didn't do a lot of good, and of course the sun came out minutes after I got here...

I rode in. Lots of deep puddles at the storm drains on the corners, but beyond that not a big deal (other than extra heavy traffic)

We'll see how the ride home goes...

to which, you smugly replied ... "why no honey ... i'm THE idiot"

There's a lot of competition for that title around here.   [cheeky]

Clear and dry here in Bethesda.

Yeah, but no bike for you  :P

Thunder and lightning back in the city. Wow what a show down town.

Be careful tonight guys,

especially you, 'Belle, you got a husband and SBK waiting for you at home.  ;)

no competition ... i am THE IDIOT GOD ... just view my mighty avatar  [evil]

I know and my time is quickly running out. :(

The wind flowing around the island creates a low pressure area at the base compared to the top. This causes the air to flow in the vertical plane. When I fly the approach to Oakland on a day like today you get a bumpy ride as you go over top of the island.

Only since Dan left.

Seriously bageebaz, What in Krist's name is that freaking thing you're making us look at.  [puke]

The SBK is in the City, so a right-minded gal would just stay there with it.   [cheeky]


Ahhhhh....figured it was something having to do with science n stuff.  Very cool.   [thumbsup]

It's supposed to be a bit hairier tomorrow... I'm runnin' out of dry gloves and socks.   [coffee]

johnny o turned me on to the st andrews face transformer program ... very cool web app located @:
http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Transformer/ (http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Transformer/)

try it ... it's more fun than a barrel of pinheads.  [roll]

This thread makes me wanna ride in tomorrow.  We'll see how gnarly it is. 

It's pretty dang gnarly out here. Lots of rockslides, mud, rivers, and trees.

Pick a bridge and cross it between 11 and 1 tomorrow.  It's supposed to get ka-ra-zie.  60 mph gusts possibly.  Doubt it'll get that windy on the Bay, but I'm pretty sure the gusts I felt today were 30 mph +.  It'll do 40+ on the BB for sure.  Woot!   [popcorn]

Perfect for a ride with full fairings and extra light wheels, AKA a 'kite'.   

I have gone from being the Idiot that rides his motorcycle in any weather conditions to that Idiot that rides his bicycle in any weather condition...  and i gotta say, the moto is easier, but at least I don't have to deal with any 2000lb+ idiots trying to kill me! (only 50lb+ ones... dogs, kids, etc)

I'm a big old wussie! I won't ride in this weather if you paid me! We need this rain, but I do wish it would clear up so I could get in one good ride and, hopefully, I can resume my daily commute soon. The bart/car commute sucks bad.

I remember the days without car, riding to and from work and everyplace else weather it was 105 or storming like this. Don't miss it much. but ya do what you have to do. My hats off to anybody that rides in this kind of weather. Just slow down and get there...

I didn't ride today.  Too much for me.   [moto]

Guess you have to draw the line somewhere. Still.... my hats off to you.



On another note, got power back on yesterday, and we didn't lose power today......Yet.

Ugh. Two days of caging it is about driving me nuts.

Unless it's looking like the apocalypse outside, I'm riding tomorrow!

I think I am going to hang up the bad weather riding so I am searching for a used car.

I was able to work from home yesterday but I really should head into the office today.
I will try to sneak to work between rain breaks if there are any.

And you don't exactly have the best rain bike...100+ HP at the rear wheel in a lumpy, torquey mill? Ouch.

What have you been driving that's so terrible? 1968 Ford 3/4 ton P.U. with four speed & no P.S. with lots of slop in the steering with a heater that is stuck on cold or something?

Or something newer & better?

'95 Acura Integra. The car's OK, actually it runs really well for a 15 year old car, but it's the being stuck in traffic I have no patience for anymore.

I guess having a radio's nice though - it helps to distract you from the sitting in traffic part.

Lucky me ecvjr.'s sick so I get to sit today out.
Why wasn't he sick yesterday - my 30 min. commute took and hour via back roads.

I was rockin' the '62 ford with vacuum wipers.

+1

fekking parking garages are enough to send me over the edge.

Yeah that's even a bigger reason. I think if I had a more rain friendly bike I would hit the wet weather more often.

I could totally see you on a GSA.  ;D





Then falling over at the first stop.

I'm driving to San Bernardino Sunday in the 2000 Mercedes E320 making a stop in the city on the way. It has all kinds of bells & whistles to do distracting with. Maybe your Acura could use Garmin Nav system or something to help in that regard.


Those wipers sound interesting. Do you have to double clutch too?

Only in the military truck.

I rode on Tuesday and Weds. And I rode today.

Today sucked worse than donkey balls. And I know from sucking donkey balls.

I was going stir crazy working from home all week and not being able to ride so I just road from Antioch to Fremont. Yeah from 1am to 2am =)

I have a place I can crash in Fremont sometimes. Anyways I thought I found a break in the weather but I was
Wrong.

The Ride was actually pretty pleasant even though it was wet and raining but I was nice and toasty with my heated liner.