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11-12-2012, 12:35 PM
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Que la Chinga?!
Joined: Jun 2004
Location: BFE, SW Oregon/SF BayO'rea
Oddometer: 3,109
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11-12-2012, 04:16 PM
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Adventure Commuter
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: East of CleveOh
Oddometer: 2,491
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Chip `92 Yamaha TDM 850 “Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.” - Frank Tyger "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." - Neale Donald Walsch SlipChip screwed with this post 11-12-2012 at 07:35 PM |
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11-12-2012, 04:48 PM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2009
Location: SE Denver-ish
Oddometer: 2,537
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No. Turn bike around and don't come back until spring.
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11-13-2012, 01:35 PM
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Rawrr!
Joined: Jun 2010
Location: Red Five standing by
Oddometer: 495
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Unfortunately his real name was Bruno Sardine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU1RsZr1IDo
Sorry but I can't get into photobucket right now to post a pic.
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'08 XB12S, '03 Road Glide, '73 CB750Four, '76 KZ750B, '95 ZX 600R in restore, '76 Honda Chopper under construction. Tuna Helper screwed with this post 11-13-2012 at 01:52 PM |
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11-14-2012, 05:25 AM
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"Cool" Aid!
Joined: Feb 2005
Location: Alexandria, VA
Oddometer: 41,483
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11-14-2012, 05:48 AM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Jun 2009
Location: in the foothills now....
Oddometer: 4,309
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11-20-2012, 08:01 AM
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: Mar 2009
Location: Northern CA
Oddometer: 616
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Black ice ride'in on an FJR1300.
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11-20-2012, 09:09 AM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain
Oddometer: 1,948
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I don't think I'd want an FJR1300 on that ice.
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11-20-2012, 09:45 AM
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: Oct 2009
Location: Finland-Australia
Oddometer: 990
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Tip toeing thru there, it's good when you can see it before you're right on it , although bit easier on the 990adv, i still get 'moments' every spring, in similar situation's, haven't dropped it yet, it's coming but
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11-21-2012, 05:20 AM
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Scary Jerry
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Louisville, Tn
Oddometer: 2,193
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Boys and toys with a need or speed.
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11-21-2012, 06:50 AM
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: Mar 2009
Location: Northern CA
Oddometer: 616
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The trick to ride'in black ice, is to head for the gravel. "Normally" you'd ride the car tracks, and avoid the gravely bits, but on the ice, that's where the traction iz.
![]() Funny thang 'bout this pic, iz all the fellers with ADV bikes stayed down on the road, and I dun rode the FJR up the hill fer a better view. ![]() ![]() Quote:
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11-21-2012, 03:15 PM
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villagidiot
Joined: Apr 2007
Location: chicagoland
Oddometer: 1,168
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"The trick to ride'in black ice, is to head for the gravel. "Normally" you'd ride the car tracks, and avoid the gravely bits, but on the ice, that's where the traction iz.
Yep. That's what I do given the opportunity. And rather than being stuck out there in the gravel 'tween the cager tracks, I like to be near the edge of the road. Thus, if the gravel in the lane doesn't run all the way across the ice, I can get off the pavement and run on the gravel shoulder where a lot of rocks stick up thru the ice. Even fresh untrammeled snow at the edge of the pavement and on the shoulder is a whole lot better'n than the packed/iced stuff where the cagers drive. They don't use sand in chicagoland where I am. So I look to ride where the as-yet-to-melt rock salt and the 'marbles' are in snowy/icy conditions. Nice to see a post from a rider with the same experience in those conditions as me.
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11-21-2012, 05:04 PM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain
Oddometer: 1,948
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Not a lot of choice in this situation. Frozen in the middle, frozen on the edges!
Just ride slow... and hopefully not on an FJR1300, pretty much one twitch and you're down.
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Whales were everywhere. On the beach, on the hillsides. One crossed the road in front of us… it was a big beluga! |
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11-22-2012, 07:29 AM
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Tag Sniper
Joined: Jan 2008
Location: Colorado Springs
Oddometer: 1,061
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![]() I rode this on a 1985 Goldwing.I was moving when I took this pic.It is ice/packed snow all the way across,just a little thinner in the middle.
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11-24-2012, 11:55 AM
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Careening forward
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Santa Fe, N.M.
Oddometer: 5,656
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KLX 400 dual sport Tune in, turn on, drop out. |
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