Riding home in a Flood... Hmm...

RVertigo · December 14, 2006, 06:07:21 PM

Well, I will be riding home in a serious storm tonight. My work is flooded... The roads on the way home are flooded... There's a football game between work and home... And everyone is driving like world is ending...

The thing I'm really wondering about is...... WIll the GS float?

scratch · December 14, 2006, 06:15:28 PM

Float no, hydroplane maybe, but with those skinny tires it'll probably get you home no matter what.

Hope you get home safely. Will pray for a safe journey home for you.

Foreverunstopable · December 14, 2006, 06:20:44 PM

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Motorcycle_20attachments#1044032400

Just pull the cord and your good to go...

Seriously, ride safe. Dont forget to ride in the distance of the headlight and be easy on the brakes. Also pick either the right or left tire tracks.

GeeP · December 14, 2006, 10:35:17 PM

#1 rule of wet weather riding: Don't put your feet down if the road is flooded.

Ride safe, take it easy.

pandy · December 14, 2006, 10:44:50 PM

I heard there are TERRIBLE storms in WA state tonight. Ride carefully!!!!!!!!!!!

will123 · December 15, 2006, 06:46:39 AM

Be careful but the gs is pretty good in the rain. I usually run about 65 in the rain and thats miles per hour .

pandy · December 15, 2006, 08:36:26 AM

So check in with us when you can, RV...I heard on the radio this morning that the storms are terrible and power is out all over WA (and possibly OR).

indywar360 · December 15, 2006, 09:26:11 AM

Yeah it was like a hurricane last night here in Portland, the wind was ripping the place apart. I got out of work at 930 and my motorcycle cover was UNDER my front tire. The only way this could have happened was if it FELL OVER SOMEHOW. I highly suspect the guy in front of me backed into it, then picked it up and left, but last night the winds were possibly strong enough to have done it too.

Still pisses me off.

Then I rode all over town in the storm cuz I wanted some honeydew boba tea and fried rice to go, and the places are like 6 miles apart. And yeap got blown all over the road. Like, 2-3 feet sideways. Luckily the streets were pretty near deserted and what traffic there was was creeping along.

Hope everyone else was okay! You wusses didn't stay home did you?

pandy · December 15, 2006, 09:28:41 AM

I think it got down to the mid 50's last night....I ain't ridin' in THAT kinda cold!

Just kidding!

tussey · December 15, 2006, 11:16:42 AM

Quote from: indywar360 on December 15, 2006, 09:26:11 AM
Yeah it was like a hurricane last night here in Portland, the wind was ripping the place apart. I got out of work at 930 and my motorcycle cover was UNDER my front tire. The only way this could have happened was if it FELL OVER SOMEHOW. I highly suspect the guy in front of me backed into it, then picked it up and left, but last night the winds were possibly strong enough to have done it too. Still pisses me off.

Then I rode all over town in the storm cuz I wanted some honeydew boba tea and fried rice to go, and the places are like 6 miles apart. And yeap got blown all over the road. Like, 2-3 feet sideways. Luckily the streets were pretty near deserted and what traffic there was was creeping along.

Hope everyone else was okay! You wusses didn't stay home did you?

I had the wind blow my bike over before. It's possible.

scratch · December 15, 2006, 11:31:45 AM

Sure is!

Park on the lee side of a building, or don't cover it, the cover will act like a sail and pull your bike over. If you have to park it in the wind, and you can tell which way the wind is coming from, park facing the wind, biasing the right side towards the wind.

RVertigo · December 15, 2006, 12:25:16 PM

Well, I decided to hang out at work for a while last night and let the traffic die down a little...
By the time I left, the flooding in my area drained off and most of the cars were off the road... Until I got near the stadium JUST when the SeaChickens game was letting out.

Anyway... It wasn't too bad... Some big puddles and some HUGE wind on the way home. I seriously felt like my tires were sliding sideways.

Riding like this / | \ \ | / / and going in a straight line the whole time.

I made it home without any major issues...

My sister wasn't so lucky... She made it home safely, but then a tree fell on her car. D'OH!

New record for wind speed last night... Crazy weather. I thought Seattle was gonna fly away.

indywar360 · December 15, 2006, 05:57:54 PM

I'm halfway through watching An Inconvenient Truth and there is so much data about global warming causing increased rainfall, storms, winds, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc, seems like this might become a more frequent thing

guess we better get used to it

yes it sounds crazy but portland I know has had record highs lately... look at the data... its all there...

edit: btw I just attempted to go to a party in the hills here and it was ICY. Like, slipping and sliding around, glittering black road icy. Christ. I turned around and went back home.

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