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Wish I didn't ride today...

Skyline from SF to San Bruno

Wasn't so bad. Listened to NPR, got a little damp around the neck, a little stuck in the backup at San Bruno Ave.
But not anything like the Bay Bridge, I am sure.

Glad to see you were still vertical by the time you got to SF.

May I suggest the Far Right Lane next time? Unless have to be in the left lanes, the right side offers far better wind conditions, especially before and just after Yerba Buena Island.

Don't miss that commute, I have to admit.

Who wants to play hooky this coming Wednesday? NOAA says sunny, and 62 degrees, and I will be a total of 59 years old. Old enough to take a vacation or P/N day and go have some fun in the sun.
 
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Jabberwocky said:
Funny, while stuck in traffic, nice and toasty in my car, going 15 mph. I was wishing I took my bike today instead.
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Hahaha, yep I realized on the way home I should have never doubted riding in was a good idea... as I passed everyone.
 
Ride in this morning suuuuuuuucked. :laughing I was on the BB about 10:30 a.m. I got desperate: I started knocking on people's windows at the toll plaza to let me through--and they did! :thumbup:cool Fricken plaza was flooded, so I had to take a run at this one puddle--barely made it. Felt like I was doing the Baja 1000, not commuting to work. Needless to say, despite wearing the 'Stich parts of me got wet...like, my right shoulder, the outside of my left leg... I don't know what the heck I was thinking. Oh well. It's over now.
 
DucatiHoney said:
Ride in this morning suuuuuuuucked. :laughing I was on the BB about 10:30 a.m. I got desperate: I started knocking on people's windows at the toll plaza to let me through--and they did! :thumbup:cool Fricken plaza was flooded, so I had to take a run at this one puddle--barely made it. Felt like I was doing the Baja 1000, not commuting to work. Needless to say, despite wearing the 'Stich parts of me got wet...like, my right shoulder, the outside of my left leg... I don't know what the heck I was thinking. Oh well. It's over now.
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Glad you made it. But, no Fastrak account?
 
rodr said:
Glad you made it. But, no Fastrak account?
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Rode in after carpool hours due to a meeting. Even the Fastrak lanes were *that* clogged. Traffic was practically at a standstill on the bridge.
 
Hubby took our only cage to the airport this morning. I had a meeting across town and it wasn't raining that badly when I left. Had I thought about it as I watched 8" of rain running through my bike tire, and up to the chain, in my parking spot on the street, I might have considered just riding to the BART station... Unfortunately there's no good spot on the BB to pull over and turn around.
 
I have no cage...only the bike.

It was wild today. Blasts of shaking wind, filled with rain, slapping into you like handfuls of ball bearings. Wild and wobbling and terrifying. I actually whooped with the joy of surviving when I came down past the Fremont exit, heading into the city, and knew the worst was almost past. The grey mist-shrouded glimpses of the furious whitecapped ocean down there didn't help, either.

I'm used to storms, to wind, I've blasted through storms full of lightning and hail in the middle of the Badlands of South Dakota, and this was right up there with that scary.

Glad we all made it all right.
 
I crossed the bridge in the all mighty white whale moby dick aka my white 940 turbo wagon made by the finest rain & snow tested car building country there is SWEDEN YA!!!.. and i still got pushed around on the bridge the left lane of the bottom deck was flooded. I crossed at 9am. Coming back at 9pm, 9:30 pm was no problem. I was all toasty and listening to dylan's, blood on the tracks and laughin it up.. I've been driving to richmond for 2 weeks now and today was the first day I saw several motorcyclist out riding on the freeway.. so jealous, but then I hit the bridge and was like OH HELLLLL NOO!!! it's comfy here fuck that shit!! But yes I rode yesterday in my jeans and jacket across the bridge at night in the rain and I felt triumphant when I crossed in to sf. eat my tire smoke rain gods
 
Ironbutt said:
Never been to Vegas eh? From needles to across that Damn Dam? Look over the side.. scary..
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no i've been there, i was just trying to make a point. motorcycles are to me all about conditions, the machine itself, and ultimately how i react or interact with it all.
 
hophead said:
no i've been there, i was just trying to make a point. motorcycles are to me all about conditions, the machine itself, and ultimately how i react or interact with it all.
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huh? You just went "Marcus Aurelius". and lost me.. :laughing
 
Yesterday was brutal. I don't really have a commute, but around noon I drove 101S from San Carlos to Santa Clara, and it was the 2nd worst conditions I've ever driven in, PERIOD. #1 goes to my 5.5 hour blizzard drive to Tahoe, after midnight, memorial day weekend.

The whole freeway slowed to 50mph for most of the drive and I was STILL tugging at the wheel nonstop as if the road was rutted all to hell (it wasn't). It didn't look like standing water, but I think the entire road was just saturated and coated. Normally driving in the rain doesn't even cross my radar as a "thing" because I grew up and learned to drive in the northwest. To me it's just like any other condition. Hell, in some ways I think it's safer.

But yesterday was just a clusterfuck. Even leaving aside other drivers, conditions were flat out TERRIBLE.
 
Oh, right, the evening commute yesterday... Rode from Milpitas to Los Gatos via 880 and 85 around 6:15pm, pouring rain. During that 1/2 hr ride my gloves got drenched, and after I took off the gloves water was dripping out from the inside of the sleeves of my rain jacket. I was creating a puddle whereever I was standing at my daughter's school.

I still don't quite understand the mechanism of the gloves getting fully soaked, like they were dunked in a bucket of water. Last time I had this happened with a different pair of "waterproof" gloves after 3 hours in the rain, but this time it only took 1/2 hr. For a "normal" rain commute, these gloves would only get slightly damp around the cuff. For the gloves to get this wet, the water had to be entering from the cuff side. I think they need to put an internal cuff with elastic opening to stop the water from entering that way. (With my rain jacket it's very hard to tuck the glove cuffs inside the sleeves.)
 
hophead said:
hey who is marcus aurelius?
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A character in Gladiator

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