Cold weather, cold tires, leaf clutter (be careful)

[1299]

Makes me think about tire temps...thanks for the reminder. I sometimes ride in the 40s...so nice.

 

[bazooki]

Saving my rides for warmer days. Between the leaf lookers, leafs and cold I'm just not interested for a while.

Quick Edit - Nice of you to let him use your jacket, here's to the hope he will do the right thing and continue to be grateful that you saved his hind, literally.

......and I assume he is going to compensate you for your jacket?

 

[Tufbusa]

ATGATT...and another question, as an unexperienced cold weather rider....what(if any?) is a good method to determine if your tires are warm?

Hope your friend recovers well...

Some may think my method of testing the amount of traction available is a little odd but it works for me. I bump the clutch and add a little throttle, if the front tire comes up, I have a substantial amount of traction. If the rear spins, there's not enough traction to play.

Hope your buddy heals up Randy! Sounds like he received an expensive lesson in common sense?

 

[NickSully]

Hope your friend makes a full recovery!

 

[Mr Bogus]

I went and took video of the crash scene.. (no gore thank you)... just a good idea of what happened... crash covered almost 500' rider slid about 2/3 of that on asphalt..

 

[k03gsxr750]

500' rider slid about 2/3 of that on asphalt..

So with that said we can pretty well rule speed out as a contributing factor huh

 

[Mr Bogus]

So with that said we can pretty well rule speed out as a contributing factor huh

only thing he would conceede to initially.. told me he never got the bike off the road to start with... Funny what we loose when we crash.. our sense of time and recall seem to be first in line...

as he heals up, things will probably start to come back.. I know he did not lose his sense of pain... pretty sore guy right now after doing his best imitation of a "rag doll" at 80mph or so... (now why would he be looking at speedo? I dont know.... but I think that is one of the first rules of going fast...DONT LOOK)

 

[kennym4]

only thing he would conceede to initially.. told me he never got the bike off the road to start with... Funny what we loose when we crash.. our sense of time and recall seem to be first in line...

as he heals up, things will probably start to come back.. I know he did not lose his sense of pain... pretty sore guy right now after doing his best imitation of a "rag doll" at 80mph or so... (now why would he be looking at speedo? I dont know.... but I think that is one of the first rules of going fast...DONT LOOK)

That's why I can't ever tell how fast I've been, LoL. If I'm going fast enough to want to know, I'm going too fast to look.


So if the air temp is 50 or so........your tires will not heat up enough ?

I ride in the cold a lot, but usually on normal roads....not too twisty

 

[Mr Bogus]

That's why I can't ever tell how fast I've been, LoL. If I'm going fast enough to want to know, I'm going too fast to look.


So if the air temp is 50 or so........your tires will not heat up enough ?

I ride in the cold a lot, but usually on normal roads....not too twisty

we ran tire temp/pressure monitors on the busa's at fall bash.. while running the Cherahola (pretty darn twisty) at 50mph and ambient temps in the low 50's.. the tires never got up to pressure or temp..

I was running BT003RS tires at 31psi.. they MIGHT have hit 35psi a few times at 75 degrees on the rear and 36 or so at 80 degrees on the front (the front is not too bad actually) but the rear? a crash waiting to happen.. Steve as I recall (he can correct this) was actually cooler on the tires than I was (harder compound with a bit more air to start with)

Now the bike never got out of shape (on the new tires, the old tires that were worn were terrible on the same road/same conditions)

but it did keep us wary about pushing to hard...

 

[badazgtp]

Man, he's lucky he didn't slide into oncoming traffic.

 

[Mr Bogus]

Man, he's lucky he didn't slide into oncoming traffic.

thats for darn sure... there was a LEO sitting at the top of the ramp that watched it happen.. (Forgot to mention that) So before the bike quit sliding, there were blue lights coming down the ramp the wrong way..

 

[AJAY]

Good post, and good points. Glad that the rider has you for a friend (and a nag).

The last time I laid a bike down was November 1993, pulling into my driveway, hit some wet leaves, sucks. Live and learn.