WIND in Wyoming
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From: connecticut
Rode thru South Dakota and Wyoming years ago. A local told me there is a higher rate of suicides due to the constant winds.
Probably bullshit, but the again that much wind could wear you down.
Probably bullshit, but the again that much wind could wear you down.
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From: WetCoast
As we were climbing higher the rain changed to snow. There was practically no guard rails, and no where to turn around.
After we topped the summit, and started going down, changed back to mostly rain.
I didn't check my speed, but we were going pretty Goddamned slow until it turned back to rain.
I've been riding damn near 40 yrs, and it was the sketchiest thing I've ever been thru on a motorcycle...
After we topped the summit, and started going down, changed back to mostly rain.
I didn't check my speed, but we were going pretty Goddamned slow until it turned back to rain.
I've been riding damn near 40 yrs, and it was the sketchiest thing I've ever been thru on a motorcycle...
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From: Whiskey Falls, Texas
Thats something you only want to experienced a couple times
I Keep a couple dozen big black tie straps in the bottom of one of my saddlebags in case I ever get into **** like that and all I wanna do is get off the mountain
they make good Emergency chains
I imagine the guys behind you were wondering what the hell you were doing
Lol
I don't need to experience it again, once was enough. And I don't care if you live in the mountains or not, not many on here regularly push thru snow on a motorcycle on a mountain summit.
As far as the guys behind me, they knew we were in some ****, and couldn't turn around. If we stopped to turn and started sliding, that **** would have been bad, so I kept trucking. Again, we were 2 up and loaded heavy.
We have cardo packtalk bold, and my wife was silent. My best friend his wife was freaking out, talking, etc, and he finally told her to shut up, it was all he could do to focus on following me.
So she shut up and started praying and said "Jesus take the wheel"....
I pointed out she screwed up and Jesus wouldn't help us because there is no "wheel" on a motorcycle. She should have said handlebars, LMAO....
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You live in the Mountains, so it made me feel better to hear you say that.
I don't need to experience it again, once was enough. And I don't care if you live in the mountains or not, not many on here regularly push thru snow on a motorcycle on a mountain summit.
As far as the guys behind me, they knew we were in some ****, and couldn't turn around. If we stopped to turn and started sliding, that **** would have been bad, so I kept trucking. Again, we were 2 up and loaded heavy.
We have cardo packtalk bold, and my wife was silent. My best friend his wife was freaking out, talking, etc, and he finally told her to shut up, it was all he could do to focus on following me.
So she shut up and started praying and said "Jesus take the wheel"....
I pointed out she screwed up and Jesus wouldn't help us because there is no "wheel" on a motorcycle. She should have said handlebars, LMAO....
I don't need to experience it again, once was enough. And I don't care if you live in the mountains or not, not many on here regularly push thru snow on a motorcycle on a mountain summit.
As far as the guys behind me, they knew we were in some ****, and couldn't turn around. If we stopped to turn and started sliding, that **** would have been bad, so I kept trucking. Again, we were 2 up and loaded heavy.
We have cardo packtalk bold, and my wife was silent. My best friend his wife was freaking out, talking, etc, and he finally told her to shut up, it was all he could do to focus on following me.
So she shut up and started praying and said "Jesus take the wheel"....
I pointed out she screwed up and Jesus wouldn't help us because there is no "wheel" on a motorcycle. She should have said handlebars, LMAO....
*****!!!I had to move a tag once... I was maybe a 1/4 mile from the summit of a pass I had to make, but hail and ice told me I had enough, and thankfully I could turn around. When I could finally go back and move it, there was no way I could have done it that day.
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From: WetCoast
You live in the Mountains, so it made me feel better to hear you say that.
I don't need to experience it again, once was enough. And I don't care if you live in the mountains or not, not many on here regularly push thru snow on a motorcycle on a mountain summit.
As far as the guys behind me, they knew we were in some ****, and couldn't turn around. If we stopped to turn and started sliding, that **** would have been bad, so I kept trucking. Again, we were 2 up and loaded heavy.
We have cardo packtalk bold, and my wife was silent. My best friend his wife was freaking out, talking, etc, and he finally told her to shut up, it was all he could do to focus on following me.
So she shut up and started praying and said "Jesus take the wheel"....
I pointed out she screwed up and Jesus wouldn't help us because there is no "wheel" on a motorcycle. She should have said handlebars, LMAO....
I don't need to experience it again, once was enough. And I don't care if you live in the mountains or not, not many on here regularly push thru snow on a motorcycle on a mountain summit.
As far as the guys behind me, they knew we were in some ****, and couldn't turn around. If we stopped to turn and started sliding, that **** would have been bad, so I kept trucking. Again, we were 2 up and loaded heavy.
We have cardo packtalk bold, and my wife was silent. My best friend his wife was freaking out, talking, etc, and he finally told her to shut up, it was all he could do to focus on following me.
So she shut up and started praying and said "Jesus take the wheel"....
I pointed out she screwed up and Jesus wouldn't help us because there is no "wheel" on a motorcycle. She should have said handlebars, LMAO....
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From: Whiskey Falls, Texas
I've ridden more this last trip in the mountains than I ever have before, and I don't care if it's summer or not, I learned that dark **** you see up ahead might be SNOW instead of rain!!
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