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Flying Duck · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:41 am Post subject: I just got a free bike wash!

250 miles up I-5 in the rain at night. Just got in.

By the way, the PR2s tend to hydroplane on the freeway at 75+. If I kept it at 70 or below they'd cut right through the puddles. (Cars must by hydroplaning at about 60 because that's the fastest anybody else was going as I buzzed by them in the car pool lane. Laughing

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Did I mention it's f'n WET here tonight?
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RI Parker · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:29 am Post subject:

I'm glad that you survived the trip.
Let's start a thread all about rain gear (mine is still in it's zipper bag).

I like the PR2, handles fine. Takes a couple of miles to get used to if coming from bias-ply. It's uncanny, you point it into a curve and it says "BRING IT ON" with no hesitation or wandering or anything.
I probably shouldn't have used it along with the Bridgestone on back, but it worked fine (now I have the Avon on rear). Can't wait to see if it's just as fine in temps above 40F!
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:54 am Post subject:

The new PR3 Michelins are supposed to be better in the wet.
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Flying Duck · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:23 pm Post subject:

DLBass · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject:

You guys must get some serious amounts of standing water on the road over there. Aquaplaning is very difficult to achieve on a motorcycle due to the relatively small contact patch, which combined with the weight of the bike pushes the bike through the water onto the road.

I have never suffered this effect on a bike (done it in a car a few times) in all my years of riding in all weathers.

Keep your tyres pumped up, and hunker down behind the fairing Cool

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Flying Duck · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:14 pm Post subject:

It rains here enough sometimes that the ruts on the freeway fill with water. The whole city was one big puddle when I got home last night. Shocked

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86-97 K75F(K75/100/1100 Frankenbrick)
86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
91 & 92 K75Ss
91 K1
86 custom K100
14 WR250R
IBA #17739 (SS1K, BBG, 50CC)
Buy parts HERE

mtnroads · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:56 am Post subject:

Glad you made it in ok - I just drove down from Everett to PDX this evening (in the car) and with the rain and 50 mph winds visibility was horrible in places. Yes - lots of standing water, especially near Chehalis.
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garfey · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 18 Location: Deep East Texas

Rain in Daytona Beach during BikeWeek? Why yes, yes it did.

And, when it started, did I have the Street Rod half disassenbled to install a new battery, as one must do? Why yes, yes I did.

And did I have tools and bike parts spread all over the place in the campground. Yes. yes I did.

Did I manage to get everything tucked away before the rain commenced in earnest. Well no, no I didn't. The two minute warning wasn't nearly enough time, so the bike parts, except for the airbox cover and airfilter top went into the truck cab along with one of the tool rolls and the other tool roll and tool bag went into the tent, but not before they were thoroughly soaked. I threw a tarp over the "R," leaving the KTM 640Adv to fend for itself and it did so admirably.

Drenched, I retired to the tent, dried off, and was sound asleep before 10P, and did not feel a need to get up and check on the weather. The rain drumming on the tent - all night and into the morning - made that unnecessary. And the rain continued for the ride, on the KTM, of course, fitted as it was with the absolute best choice of tires for riding on rain slicked streets - NOT! Full nobbies were not what I'd have chosen, given a choice - to the 1130cc.com gathering at 0800. Seven riders showed up along with perhaps 12-15 other, perhaps wiser members of that little "club," some having come from as far away as Taxachusetts and Nu Joisey, and there were far more staffers from Milwaukee there. The rain was beginning to ease off as five of us putted over to a nice joint for breakfast, joined by five others who stayed a bit drier.

I can now put faces to the names of some of the folk I've been internetting with for about 3 years - winners all and a very varied bunch.

What are the odds that of the ten of us at breakfast, three are, or were, Bubbleheads? Fairly long, I'd guess.

The odds are likely long, also, that someone else has Willie G's siggy underneath the bill of a KTM cap.

(Before throwing stones, the original purpose of the trip was to buy a trailer, hence the truck, and the return to the Piney Woods will be a bit circuitous, via San Antonio and the Hill Country for a day or two of DS-ing. Finally finished installing that @#^%* battery just about dark today, ready for a long ride tomorrow to a Crab Shack somewhere.)

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