Everything Changed after I took the bike, Stuck in a storm

Well, when I thought about ridding my bike across the state through the desert to a Convention, the weather had all suns as the icons (weather channel site) and it was sunny all 4 days.
As soon as I get here, all the icons changed to clouds with lightening in them.

I got here OK, a little hot but it was a nice ride. I had the first day and came back to my hotel to change.
I come out to get on the bike and there is a huge wind storm. Visibility is about a small parking lot and across the street. Winds about 80mph with heavy sand.

I see fire trucks all over the place. Ambulance, police and everything. Listening to the online scanner there is down trees in houses, building one after another on fire. Power lines down, blown transformers, people trapped.

Sunday, the day I leave it's supposed to rain with flood warnings all the way to my house 150 miles a way.

I can't believe how much it changed right after I rode the bike. It's unbelievable.

At least I can have story's to tell about ridding through a monsoon at 65mph in a t-shirt. That is if I make it home.

Looks like I wont take my bike on any trips. I had some planed.

Chris.

 

Get some rain gear and continue riding! No real need to submit to nature.

 

Weather is part of life. You have to cope with it no matter how you travel (a night that I had to sleep on a bench in O'Hare one Christmas eve comes to mind). If you're in the PNW and don't have rain gear you will get wet, so go get some, even if it's just a vinyl oversuit. One thing that you have to do is accept that life will throw up obstacles; either you let them ruin things, or you roll with them, adapt, and live in the moment.

 

Yea man, don't give up so easy!

Hell, when I took the bike to Cali, it rained literally everyday for a week.

It's not too bad as long as you have lots of layers and rain gear.

The wind sucks more than the rain, the day I ride through three tornados, that was one I won't mind not ever having to do again, lol.

So get some rain gear, throw a leg over the saddle, and RIDE!

Trips on your XJ are ones you won't regret!

This was taken going over the North Cascades in WA.

 

Plus, the cool thing about riding motorcycles, once it stops raining, the wind does a darn nice job of drying you off

 

OK, sounds good. I will change my attitude. It won't matter getting wet since it will be 100*. I will look at it as getting cooled down. I kind of want it to rain now. Just don't like the downpour stuff.

Chris.

 

Full face helmet makes a big difference in a straight downpour.

 

Oh ya, full face helmet is a must

 

And always remember that it must rain for a while to clean that dirty #@! road enough to eliminate all the oil trapped in there. Thanks cagers!

Below 40F w/o rain gear is a no-no unless you are masochistic-otherwise RIDE ON!

 

A motorcyclist never trusts the forecast

I've often dreamed about owning the aerostich gear

http://www.aerostich.com/suits/one-piece-suits

 

Walmart has a Coleman PVC/Nylon Rainsuit Blue that they sell for $20 bucks or so. I bought it because when I took my MSF course it rained for two days straight. I keep it in the sissy bar bag and it has come in handy a bunch of times with the crazy summertime weather on coastal Florida. I think my next buy will be a full coverage helmet, that would help alot.