Dear bike riders

[Larry Gude]

oh....oh....my sides at hurting from laughing so.....



(sorry, Larry!)

My side hurts, too.

 

[my-thyme]

I ride on St. Andrews Church road pretty much every day. 2 summers ago, I caught a gace full of guts from the car in front of me when he ran through a fresh roadkill in the curves by Fairgrounds Road. Lucky to miss the carcass. Be alert for trash cans and bags flying out of trailers and pickup trucks too. Here is the link to the MSF. Great idea to check out your bike before you get it on the road.
Motorcycle Safety Foundation

Just printed my checklist, gonna go over the bike tomorrow after work so I can hit the road Sunday. Rode to work Thursday and FELT really rusty, slow reaction time - not a good thing.

Looking forward to riding daily once the mud bog becomes a solid gravel driveway again!

 

[kom526]

Looks like a great weekend on tap so be careful out there. I know that some "cage" drivers totally vapor lock on nice days, especially early in the year.

If your out riding the back roads and you end up in my area, I have lots of yard work to be done, you know so you can stretch out a bit and work the kinks out.

 

[BS Gal]

The link has info that everyone can use. I have a friend of a friend that didn't check his tire pressure and had a blowout that cost him some skin. Only had 15 pounds in the other tire after a winter in the garage. I don't know how he couldn't feel it.

Following too close is definately dangerous. I had my deer incident at night and really wasn't too following too close but still got sprayed pretty good. The road to the dump is always an adventure. Ride safe.

My back tire went flat really fast at an intersection, prior to making a turn. I really didn't know what to do. Just rode real slow (lucky hubby was behind me) and used my body weight to turn the bike into Nicks in Waldorf. Not something I want to repeat, but I'm glad I wasn't doing 60 at the time. Took no time at all for tire to go flat. I caught a nail somewhere.

 

[BS Gal]

One of the really fun things about the snow has been learning to ride in it, kinda mud+ style and now, with all the melt, blasting into the leftovers. You hit 'em, find they give nice and easy and go faster and faster and start to develop confidence in how it reacts and then...it gets cold at night and the next day, that would be today, that #### freezes up some.


Gawd, it never ceases to amaze me how my 6' 2" 260# fat ass will just fly through the air with the greatest of ease. Right over the bars, over the snow bank and onto the nice, cleaned off, melted away gravel should of the turn. Very gentle and graceful like. No helmet. No boots. No pads or even gloves. Hell, I'm wearing shorts today.

And picking stones and splinters out of everywhere, hands, raked down my left leg, couple of shots to the back after a very nice, very smooth roll. In the gravel, did I mention? Big stuff, like softball size? My wrestling coach would be proud I haven't lost all my mad skills.

####, that hurt.

Ah, sorry and glad you weren't hurt, but I would have paid $ to see that. There is NO graceful way that you did that.

 

[my-thyme]

Looks like a great weekend on tap so be careful out there. I know that some "cage" drivers totally vapor lock on nice days, especially early in the year.

If your out riding the back roads and you end up in my area, I have lots of yard work to be done, you know so you can stretch out a bit and work the kinks out.

If I'm out riding the back roads on Sunday, I will be doing so while ignoring my yard work, so the possibility of my stopping and helping with YOUR yard work is zero...

sorry

 

[Larry Gude]

Ah, sorry and glad you weren't hurt, but I would have paid $ to see that. There is NO graceful way that you did that.

Au contraire, mon ami!!! I will have you know that I fly over the handle bars as the epitome of grace and style! Look at me! I'm prettteeeee!!!

And I'll take that any day of the week and twice on Sundays over a flat tire on a street bike!

 

[my-thyme]

Hey BSGal - Hope you're doing well...