riding in rain
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RE: riding in rain
ORIGINAL: boe1971200
Ive ridden in the rain a few times and it is kinda nerve racking. Its best to just slow down a little and relax. Theres more traction on the road then you realize. Try this, the next time your in the rain, while traveling at speed, just squeeze your brakes hard. Dont lock them up just pretend your in an emergency situation and need to stop quick. Grab em and squeeze em hard, youll find you have plenty of traction.
Ive ridden in the rain a few times and it is kinda nerve racking. Its best to just slow down a little and relax. Theres more traction on the road then you realize. Try this, the next time your in the rain, while traveling at speed, just squeeze your brakes hard. Dont lock them up just pretend your in an emergency situation and need to stop quick. Grab em and squeeze em hard, youll find you have plenty of traction.
Only if you feather the rear brake first to stop the
front tire from hydro planing before you grab a handful
of front brake and all this is providing you don't have
junk tires (say..like Dunlops"
) on your motorcycle! 
Tourer
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RE: riding in rain
I like Dunlops. I've ridden on them for 28 years. Never had a problem in the rain. I always look for Dunlops specifically. You apparently know something I don't know. Honest question: any links to your claims about Metzlers being superior to Dunlops?
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ORIGINAL: yoopermjm
I like Dunlops. I've ridden on them for 28 years. Never had a problem in the rain. I always look for Dunlops specifically. You apparently know something I don't know. Honest question: any links to your claims about Metzlers being superior to Dunlops?
I like Dunlops. I've ridden on them for 28 years. Never had a problem in the rain. I always look for Dunlops specifically. You apparently know something I don't know. Honest question: any links to your claims about Metzlers being superior to Dunlops?
I know people that never check the tires on their
cars and buy cheap junk tires for their cars, they
even drove on bald tires most of the time. Some
of these people drove like this their whole lives
and never knew the difference. Ignorance is bliss
and sometimes ignorance gets lucky for years.
There will never be any information anywhere on what
motorcycle tires stick best in the rain or dry for that
matter, atleast not by the government because that
would be driving someone out of business! How ever
there has been many independent tests done over the
years, some even by motorcycle magazines. Untill they
found out the tire companies started pulling their adds
out of their magazines!
The problem with motorcycle tires is people that own
motorcycles treat them like cars and figure any old
junk tire that holds air is good enough to ride on. So
most go with OEM tires that came on their motorcycle
which are just like OEM car tires, they were put on
because someone made a bid to make the cheapest
barely safe tire they could to get the contract! People
that ride motorcycles on stock tires only live as long
as nothing really bad ever happens to them on the
road (that deadly panic situation) we all hope to never
be in. Some people go their whole lives and never have
the (big bad one) happen to them so for them they swear
by what ever tire is on the rim with never having tried
another tire to know if they are riding on junk!
I meet 50 to 200 new people on motorcycles a week
and I use to try to explain tire safety to all of them. Now
after 40+ years I've learned it is mostly a waist of mine
and their time. Now days with the mentality of these 21st
Century motorcycle owners, talking tires to them is like
talking to a wall. They all figure if it holds air it's good
enough just like their car tires. Then they don't check
their tires before every ride and adjust their air pressures
before "EVERY RIDE" Their lucky if they check them once
a year, in my shop I have NEVER seen a motorcycle with
the correct air pressure in the tires. That to me is a total
disgrace that people take motorcycle tires which their
very life depends on so lightly,chrome or engine work is
[b][i][size=2]much more important to these 21st Century
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Road Warrior
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RE: riding in rain
That video reminds me of me back in my road race days
in 24 hour endurance races doing tire testing for tire
companies in the rain!!
Thanks for the post, that is the only way to ride in the
rain IMO..........
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RE: riding in rain
Driving in rain depends upon conditions. First 1/2 hour the road is slick from oil, tree sap, etc.. After that, the conditions depend upon traffic, your tires, ponding, safety zone and maintaining a safety zoneand how safe you feel. I ride in the rain frequently, the same rules apply as driving. Not my favorite time to drive/ride, but chit happens.
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Riding in the rain sucks....its not my thing. If I'm caught in it, I'll deal with it. If its going to rain, I'll leave the scoot at home. Too many stupid cagers as it is that don't know how to drive - ie the lady on the LIE today eating an Egg mcmuffin,while talking on a handheld cell, while READING, and driving...(WTF!!?!)...let alone when its wet out....just MHO.
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RE: riding in rain
ORIGINAL: kjriv
Riding in the rain sucks....its not my thing. If I'm caught in it, I'll deal with it. If its going to rain, I'll leave the scoot at home. Too many stupid cagers as it is that don't know how to drive - ie the lady on the LIE today eating an Egg mcmuffin,while talking on a handheld cell, while READING, and driving...(WTF!!?!)...let alone when its wet out....just MHO.
Riding in the rain sucks....its not my thing. If I'm caught in it, I'll deal with it. If its going to rain, I'll leave the scoot at home. Too many stupid cagers as it is that don't know how to drive - ie the lady on the LIE today eating an Egg mcmuffin,while talking on a handheld cell, while READING, and driving...(WTF!!?!)...let alone when its wet out....just MHO.
Riding in the rain is awsome here in the Blue Ridge
mountains, sorry about where you live having no
nice things to see in the rain.. I've lived in places
like that and hated it, thats why I live here now!
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From: Florida
RE: riding in rain
There isno need to try and scare peopleabout usingDunlop tires just because you don't use them........Dunlops are good tires.
ORIGINAL: 211Chuck
Good luck and ride safe my friend, very safe if you
continue to ride on Dunlops!
ORIGINAL: yoopermjm
I like Dunlops. I've ridden on them for 28 years. Never had a problem in the rain. I always look for Dunlops specifically. You apparently know something I don't know. Honest question: any links to your claims about Metzlers being superior to Dunlops?
I like Dunlops. I've ridden on them for 28 years. Never had a problem in the rain. I always look for Dunlops specifically. You apparently know something I don't know. Honest question: any links to your claims about Metzlers being superior to Dunlops?
Good luck and ride safe my friend, very safe if you
continue to ride on Dunlops!