Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
How many of you guys are hardcore bikers ?
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Rides in all weathers, even if I do have to lean so far into a side wind that the bike is at 45 degrees and I'm only trying to go in a straight line
Yup that's me... never had to take a cast off, knock on wood, but I've ridden in all of it... hail, snow, blinding rain, the most violent lightning storm I have ever SEEN, let alone been out in... and I had to ride the Springfield MA and HArtford CT highway overpasses during it too trying to get home... lightning striking the guardrails... no visiblity and I was glued to the tail end of an 18 wheeler riding by the light of his taillights... scary scary shit but really exhilirating when I got out on the other side to a warm, wet, summer evening that would have been pleasant except that my leathers were soaking wet... the lining in my jacket doesn't zip out and it's a thick winter one... probably added a good 35 pounds of water... couln't get out of my leathers when I got home!
How I haven't had a serious crash yet is completely beyond me. It will probably happen when I'm just out to grab a slushiee from the gas station down the road and riding in flipflops!
I don't care, I'll ride any time as long as there is no ice on the roads.