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Originally Posted by Walkabout
Quite right and you can turn it into a navigation test: watch the clouds rolling in and try to ride around them, using the knowledge that you have stored away in your brain of the local roads (or on your GPS nowadays).
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Now there is an accessory .. A GPS with weather avoidance radar .. like they have on planes .. mix it with the traffic avoidance stuff .. you'll be in the Shara in no time!
Personally I find rain on a long trip nice. The locals stay indoors and I get less traffic.
Now fresh fallen snow is another matter .. I find the front wheel rolls over it ok, but then the rear wheel rolls over near ice .. and tends to want to slip side ways ...
As for black ice .. best left alone.
Bernard - you need to go on one of them 'off road train courses'. After riding in mud and creeks you'll think rain is easy. Nothing like relativity to put things in their place.
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Regards Frank Warner
motorcycles BMW R80 G/S 1981, BMW K11LT 1993, BMW K75 G/S
Last edited by Frank Warner; 22 Jan 2008 at 03:25.
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