Just wondering how many are winter riders and don't mind a good rain ride. Maybe a good place and time to share your winter / wet setups.
I don't mind riding when it's cold or freezing cold but hate snow and rain. I guess I'm getting old or something. Now when I was a kid if the bike would run I would ride no matter what the weather was doing.
I'll ride in the cold, rain and snow. Sometimes it takes a bit of motivation, but once I'm going.... I'm really glad I did. When the snow gets too deep, it's time for the sled though. Even then, I'll still get out on the lake for some flat tracking on the ice.
Pretty simple rule here in the PNW..... if you dont ride in the rain then you dont ride. At least for 8 months out of the year
I had a blast riding snow/ice with some sheet metal screws in the tires last year. We just cut the tip of the screw to avoid going thru the tire carcass and loaded up whichever knobs we could with screws. Worked great on the front, even outside of snowy conditions. Bit into the frozen trail. The rears spun out eventually and traction was lost. Missouri is also great for riding after rain. Its mostly rock so the water runs off, the creeks are up, and the tractions about the same as dry. My favorite time to ride is just after the deluge.
Gotta ride whenever I can since the family schedule is usually pretty packed and riding dates can be hard to come by at times. I went out on this last minute ride by myself years ago, this was the weather on the way to the ride! Its funny now reading the description I wrote on my Smugmug page about the ride, ran into a bunch of my riding buddies.
I always think that we don't have dry slick here, but we do. We have a some clay and silt soil, south of me and when it dries out, it turns to pure talcum powder. It's really slick, when it's like that! If it's wet, I prefer to ride when it's still raining, over when just muddy.
I have ridden quads in the snow and ice when I lived in upper Michigan , not enough experience to do it on a bike , would probably break my a$$!
To be honest, I don't like snow that has packed and refrozen. It's just too slithery. A little bit of fresh snow is very nice and a rarity down here. Maybe only get to ride in it 2 or 3 times a winter. Plenty of rain in the winter though. It's peaceful and everything smells good, and usually nobody else out on the trails, so it's like having my own private riding area.
Yep. I think this was the same day, was on a video tear or something. And yeah, we'll have to plan a ride one of these days after I get my suspension and jetting sorted. See if we can get Lorne and some of the other guys rounded up and put in a few miles. A kinda north meets south type of thing maybe.
Puddle jumpers unite! Riding in the rain is fun, getting dressed in the rain sucks! That is when an enclosed trailer is really nice. Later,
After working outside all through the winters in the PNW since the early seventies the prevailing conditions have lost some of their appeal, but I still like to get out just not near as much when it is nasty. BTW, dry snow any time
I don't venture too far from known shelter in the winter. If its a more remote riding area, I have dry everything and a small plastic poncho. I've had to throw the poncho on under my jersey and it did a nice job of keeping me warm. Wear the jersey over it to keep it from getting shredded by trees/brush. Cmon winter.
Really not much of an issue in Oz. Although I bet you did not know we have more snow by area than the Swiss Alps (I kid you not). Pretty well g'tee 9 out of 10 week ends free of rain in Sydney. Riding in the NSW/Victorian high Country in winter one often encounters snow, still its more of a novelty than anything else.
