Slip sliding away, oh slip slip slippy, add me to the crash club!

[germany]

Sorry to hear about the get off, and so soon after your suspension upgrade! Glad you are okay.

 

[FJRMGM]

4) and you dont mess around with A BIG FUCKING BIKE IN THE SNOW

glad you are OK - I edited #4.

 

[War Machine]

Oh, did I mention that these weather forecasters suck here in WA!! Quote from King 5 news today "sunny afternoon, cold and clear night".
Well, enough of my drivel, hope you all were entertained reading my screed.

Ride safe,

Stop for snow..... I am so stupid for not stopping.... memo to self....must stop for the white stuff...

Glad you & your bike are OK.

Weather forecasters should be shot & quartered. :assassin:

 

[gregory]

Glad to hear your ok. Good to know that the sliders work!

 

[keithaba]

From the way it reads, it almost sounds like you hit a patch of black ice more than snow. I didn't think snow was that slippery unless it has accumulated and sat there all night to solidify into a patch of ice?

 

[Auburn]

Glad you are OK. My wife was through the area about the same time. She said it was hailing on I-5 in the same area.

This is the first time I have ever seen a weatherman on King 5 acknowledge they blew it not forcasting the rain/snow/hail that ocurred sporatically yesterday.

 

[Taff]

From the way it reads, it almost sounds like you hit a patch of black ice more than snow. I didn't think snow was that slippery unless it has accumulated and sat there all night to solidify into a patch of ice?

Seems that it may have been ice, although my XM Weather and bike temperature indicated 37F, that is why I decided to try and continue.

Ride safe,

 

[Taff]

Glad you are OK. My wife was through the area about the same time. She said it was hailing on I-5 in the same area.
This is the first time I have ever seen a weatherman on King 5 acknowledge they blew it not forcasting the rain/snow/hail that ocurred sporatically yesterday.

I spoke with a women who had just driven on I-5 near the area that your wife was driving, she commented that the road was "white".

Good job I took 99 South as I sometimes re-join I-5 South and get off at 320th, but my gut feeling was that the freeway was not going to be better. Also 60mph and some bad drivers on I-5 made my 99 South route a safer one for those conditions, that is until I hit the ice etc.

Ride safe.

 

[Taff]

Sorry to hear about the get off, and so soon after your suspension upgrade! Glad you are okay.

Thanks Germany, yes it is always character building as I say

So, how is the bike after you got the suspension upgrade?

Ride safe.

 

[Taff]

Soon after this a young woman, who played pro football, came over to help me push the bike to a nearby hotel.

Pics?

And, damn happy that you are ok!

Rex

RLTW!!

Hi Rex,

Haven't taken any pics yet, maybe this morning when I pull the pieces off Cherry.

Ride safe.

 

[Taff]

Ah, sheesh. This is not good news, except that you are okay. Sometimes, these things just happen. Been there, done that. A few times.

Hi there Scab,

Thanks for your kind words.

At least folks here admit their "get off's", unlike some people I know who always blame something else for the spill!

I always learn from such experiences as we should all do, at least I am not sore this morning :yahoo:

Now "Cherry" has a character as this is the first time she hit the "black stuff" and for that matter me also, after some 50,000 miles of riding in the past 3 years.

Except for that cager who hit me last June, this was the first time I have parted company with any of the bikes I have owned here in the US of A, ho hum.

Ride safe.

 

[Wolfhound]

Sorry to hear about this & good to hear your doin' fine. Great write up, helps all to hear this as a reminder of the frickin winter ways.

 

[SilveradoSlick]

Sorry you joined the club but glad you and the bike are pretty much OK. Doesn't seem like the ABS did its job very well. Did you feel it kick in? Do you remember anything else about how you wen down?

 

[Pjturbo]

Been there done that, don't do it anymore. "Good decisions come from experience, experience comes from bad decisions."

Phil

 

[FJRAust]

bugger

Sorry to hear about your get off..

All in all sounds as though it wasn't as nasty as it could have been.

And I thought you used skis on that white stuff not FJR's..

 

[Taff]

Sorry you joined the club but glad you and the bike are pretty much OK. Doesn't seem like the ABS did its job very well. Did you feel it kick in? Do you remember anything else about how you wen down?

I have ridden in some pretty bad weather during my riding life.

Up to the point just before I went down I had been using the engine/gearbox for braking.

When I gently applied both front and rear brakes, both wheels "locked", steering went left and then I tried to get my feet on the ground.

The ABS was not functioning due to ice, that is what I was trying to work out in my brain last night.

As one of the posters suggested, this must have been ice, not snow, as my friends who came to rescue me said the car and trailer was slipping all over the place.

Wrong place, wrong time!!

Ride safe.

 

[Soylent Grin]

I spoke with a women who had just driven on I-5 near the area that your wife was driving, she commented that the road was "white".

Roughly about the same time you were having your ordeal in Burien, my wife and I were two up on our '07 FJR on I-5, coming back to FedWay from Southcenter. It was chilly, but the thermometer said 43, and everything was dry...

...and right before the Kent-Des Moines exit, in the space of about 90 seconds, the entire road was covered with little ice pellets. Completely covered. I turned on the flashers, slowed down to about 50, and my wife instinctively went very still. Endured this for about five minutes, making very little in the way of course corrections, then just as soon as it started, it stopped, and we came back into dry and clear road.

So, yeah, the tale of two FJR's, only we had a happier ending. That was just a very strange weather cell, I'm sorry it took a victim.

 

[Cdogman]

Dude, Nice that you are in one piece........ You need to sport the crash club icon in your siggy now. You can get it from mine.... or many other folks siggy here

 

[Soylent Grin]

The ABS was not functioning due to ice

When I first got the bike, I was going down a small side street, and saw that the last 50 yards to the stop sign was one big ice sheet. I came to a stop before it, put it in neutral, and straddle walked to the sign. There were several points that I felt the ABS pulse. It will kick in on ice.

Where it *won't* kick in is engine braking. My guess is that you were compression braking more than you thought.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Soon after this a young woman, who played pro football, came over to help me push the bike to a nearby hotel.

Taff,

Did you at least get her number?

Glad you are OK and wishing you a quick repair...

Although I am single and looking for a SOH, this young lady was so kind but Cherry would be in a whole bunch of hurt if she was to mount my steed :yahoo:

By "steed", I presume you mean your bike.

Glad yer relatively okay...hope the bike gets fixed up soon.