Phantom Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 I was merging onto the highway last night and came up alonside a guy on a Yamaha that looked kind of like a Harley sportster. Anyway, it was pretty quick and he knew it so it really ticked him off whenI goosed the Z in 5th and forced him to fall in behind me to get around the car in front of him. When I got up a bit further he jumped back into the lane beside me and I repeated the maneuver which cause him to repeat his. Only this time he really nailed it, passed & jumped in front of me and wove thru about 8-10 cars all the while accellerating to at least 100 mph - only to run into a Texas thunderstorm cell where he got hit with giant rain drops that totally soaked him to the skin in about 5 seconds - and of course were impacting him at at least 100 mph because he had no windscreen on the bike. That had to be one really unhappy dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denny411 Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 I`ve been caught in the rain on a bike at 80+, and I can say that large rain drops at that speed feels like someone throwing a fistfull of gravel at you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruxGNZ Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 I`ve been caught in the rain on a bike at 80+, and I can say that large rain drops at that speed feels like someone throwing a fistfull of gravel at you. Oh yeah... that stings! This one time I was taking a trip up north about 4 hours from here. About 2.5 hours into the ride, the sky turned black and there was now a really strong crosswind. It started pouring, I mean buckets! With no bridge in sight, I just kept on riding. I found myself behind a gas tanker truck (18 wheeler) and could not pass him, because the conditions were so bad I couldn't see in front of him. So here I am not wanting to stop, stuck behind a big rig, getting buffeted all over the place, soaked to the bone... man, good time though. It rained the rest of the ride up there . When I got up north, I took off my clothes and my white shirt was not white anymore, nor was it ever going to be white again, because of my leather jacket. This was a very bad storm I went through, I mean really BAD! I seriously should have stopped and let some of the nasty stuff go over. Nobody expected me to be there at the time I had got there, they thought nobody in thier right mind would ride through that. My Grandma told me there was a tornado that touched down just a few miles of where I was riding at the time... scared the crap out of me when I heard that. I smile everytime I think about that ride, it was an adventure to say the least. !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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