That reminds me of wind storm I rode through on I-210 near San Bernardino, CA about 8 years ago. IIRC, we had steady 50+ mph winds, causing me to lean way over to compensate. The part that really made it interesting though, was the area I was riding had intermittent sections of concrete block sound wall. So when I'd ride past a section of sound wall, the wind would immediately stop because the sound wall was acting as a wind break, the bike would then want to dart off into my lean, This continued as I went in and out of sections with sound wall, needless to say, it was hairy. Whats worse, I was riding with about 30 days experience at the time.Wow, I ran into the same thing heading toward the AIMS bike show in Orlando. I was going to the show from Sanford. The winds had me riding in a damn near a 45 degree angle. I almost got blown off my bike several times. Up ahead I saw all sorts of police car lights. When I got to it there were about a half dozen Harleys laid down in the median. It was brutal. Never experienced that before. Don't ride in that stuff unless you have no choice.
That sound wall story is funny. It brought to mind the several times on the aircraft carrier I was on when we had No Fly Days. That to us was Heaven. We'd walk up to the bow with the carrier going full speed (about 28 knots) into the wind. It was a wonderful experience. There were a lot of people there leaning forward at about 45 degrees. A friend of mine (who was a wiseass) would say: Watch this! He walked all the way to the front real close to the front line and started walking from left to right blocking the wind and every one on that front line dropped like dominos. It was hilarious!That reminds me of wind storm I rode through on I-210 near San Bernardino, CA about 8 years ago. IIRC, we had steady 50+ mph winds, causing me to lean way over to compensate. The part that really made it interesting though, was the area I was riding had intermittent sections of concrete block sound wall. So when I'd ride past a section of sound wall, the wind would immediately stop because the sound wall was acting as a wind break, the bike would then want to dart off into my lean, This continued as I went in and out of sections with sound wall, needless to say, it was hairy. Whats worse, I was riding with about 30 days experience at the time.Wow, I ran into the same thing heading toward the AIMS bike show in Orlando. I was going to the show from Sanford. The winds had me riding in a damn near a 45 degree angle. I almost got blown off my bike several times. Up ahead I saw all sorts of police car lights. When I got to it there were about a half dozen Harleys laid down in the median. It was brutal. Never experienced that before. Don't ride in that stuff unless you have no choice.
So far it's been a bit of a bust but the rain is picking up now. We can handle large amounts of rain fairly well up here in the hills, it's the flat landers that get into trouble when too much water arrives at once.
Well our Miss Tyler is certainly welcome to flee to Arizona for safety, gregory your Visa had been pulled at the Colorado River border ese! JSNS, You Traitor!
