Just Ride.

Should this ride thread be just a.... well, thread? Or should there be a dedicated Forum topic?

  • Yes, it's own topic in the Forums

    Votes: 19 90.5%
  • Nah... threads good enough.

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
We're neck and neck...
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- - - As an older rider, I have ridden in the rain many, many times and while I don’t really enjoy or like riding wet, I must say that it doesn’t bother me all that much. I find that within 2-3 minutes, I’m about as wet as I am going to get and as long as my facesheild keeps my face dry, I sort of retreat into my little carbon fibre space module and watch the weather through the window. It’s an odd sensation and I don’t think it involves an unsafe detachment from my riding or the road environment, but I seem to be able to essentially ignore the rain during the ride. Getting my gear off later is a whole OTHER story, however. I hate that yucky sticky feeling of wet gear.
Does anyone else have that sort of detached outlook on rainy weather riding? - - -
Pete

Hi Pete,
my outlook ain't detached, it's blurred.
Back when I rode my Heritage Special long distance without a sidecar I was returning to Saskatoon from the Handhills Small Bike Rally.
Stopped to gas up in Rosetown SK, just about 110KM from home and noticed the huge slate-gray clouds to the east.
Put on my blue & black whole-body condom and rode into the storm front, hoping the rain would hold off for a while. Yeah, right.
A few minutes later, PANG! The first of the big fat raindrop hit my visor. Soon after, the visor is rain-soaked and I slow down to 90kph
Then the visor fogs over so I crack the visor open to peer under it's lower edge and slowdown to 80kph. Then SPLAT! the raindrops
start hitting my glasses - - - I ride the last 50km home on the hard shoulder at 40kph squinting under the visor's lower edge and
over the top of my fogged-up glasses.
 
^One dark morning I hit pea soup fog that coated my visor with water. When I raised it, my glasses got coated with water. I managed to get my glasses down on the tip of my nose so I could see over them. Only had a visibility of 10 ft, so didn't need glasses... If it's just rain, you can wipe your visor with your left hand when you need to see a little better.
 
I clean my visors (and MC windshields) with various spray "wax" products. Rain runs off so fast visibility isn't a problem. I've had several pinlock helmet visors now, they really work for anti fog. Too bad my preferred helmet doesn't have one. :poo:
 
If you have a "duck billl" on your helmet just tip it down until the rain doesn't hit your glasses. Raced for years with Scott goggles, a "race face" and a "duck bill". That was with an open face helmet. Road bike used a full face. Behind the windshield, just flipped the visor up if it was raining.
 
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Raced for years with Scott goggles, a "race face" and a "duck bill"

Man! I haven’t heard the term race face in a LONG time! :laugh2:

When I was a teenage boy, tearing up the desert on my dirt bike, my protective equipment consisted of an open face Bell RT helmet and a pair of old lace up work boots.
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Everything in the desert has thorns , including the bushes. After a few times of coming home and digging thorns out of my knuckles, I bought a pair of early Moto cross gloves, remember these?
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Nothing but a pair of leather gloves with strips of rubber sewn on the back , but they worked.

But the race face! For those who haven’t seen one, you drilled your helmet and screwed snaps on the side and simply snapped a mouth guard on your helmet. Oh and I had the mandatory duck bill visor too! ;)
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But the race face! For those who haven’t seen one, you drilled your helmet and screwed snaps on the side and simply snapped a mouth guard on your helmet. Oh and I had the mandatory duck bill visor too! ;)
My race face snapped to the bottom of my goggles. If I remember right I had a Bell motostar. Even though I rode enduros and hare scrambles motocross gloves were the way to go.

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I think I'm was wrong it was a RT. Motostar's were full face. I liked open face for racing.
 
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Man! I haven’t heard the term race face in a LONG time! :laugh2:

When I was a teenage boy, tearing up the desert on my dirt bike, my protective equipment consisted of an open face Bell RT helmet and a pair of old lace up work boots.
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Everything in the desert has thorns , including the bushes. After a few times of coming home and digging thorns out of my knuckles, I bought a pair of early Moto cross gloves, remember these?
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Nothing but a pair of leather gloves with strips of rubber sewn on the back , but they worked.

But the race face! For those who haven’t seen one, you drilled your helmet and screwed snaps on the side and simply snapped a mouth guard on your helmet. Oh and I had the mandatory duck bill visor too! ;)
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...is that you under the helmet in your younger days?
 
I clean my visors (and MC windshields) with various spray "wax" products. Rain runs off so fast visibility isn't a problem. I've had several pinlock helmet visors now, they really work for anti fog. Too bad my preferred helmet doesn't have one. :poo:


G'day,

I use a product called "Plexus", don't need much water runs of similar to "Rainex"
and a can lasts a looooooooooooooooong time.

GeeDub
 
Went for a ride yesterday afternoon ended up in Forest City MN about a 90 mile roundtrip from home
The county roads are a blast to ride on Minimal traffic plenty of curves and the small town people are great
and the 2 beers we had were ice cold And the only gas pump was of course out of order
 

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Went for a ride yesterday afternoon ended up in Forest City MN about a 90 mile roundtrip from home
The county roads are a blast to ride on Minimal traffic plenty of curves and the small town people are great
and the 2 beers we had were ice cold And the only gas pump was of course out of order

That looks like a nice destination. I wish we had a few quiet , leafy lanes like that here where I live.
 
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