I Hate Rain

[jf3000]

So that massive downpour caught myself and every other motorist off guard. I was near the gateway bridge and BAM. So I learned that my waterproof boots aren't waterproof, my waterproof jackets is not waterproof and my wet weather jumpsuit that is waterproof isn't waterproof. Miserable.

If you reply to any post of mine with this:

 

To me that means you're offering me a line breaka since I don't drink alcohol. So thank you.

[Brock]

Main problem with water proof boots, is the hole in the top. Lets water in that does....

[Gatey]

Ya hate rain...Try living with a drought.

[Biggles]

Whatever a "line breaka" is I doubt anyone here would know where to get one.

So take   

to mean "here's cheers"

and enjoy your "line breaka".

Riding in the rain is for real motorcyclists.  You get wet.  You travel further and often it stop raining and the wind quickly dries you.  I've been wet and dried three times in 800 km on one ride.  The STs don't let you get wet in a light shower, but nothing stops deluges.  That storm saw cars floating down the street in Brisbane yesterday, so it's not surprising you got damp.

[alans1100]

Even we had a few spots coming back from Jamestown a few minutes ago. About 20k of wet road and 5 k of light misty rain.......more annoying than anything else. We have more to come ....... left over from what Perth had a couple days ago.

[Wombattle]

It's a storm like that that turns a ride into an Adventure. If it didn't stop you then your ride report just got better! 

Oh, nearly forgot

 
breakabreaka

[StinkyPete]

The tough bits of a ride are those that invoke the most memorable parts of the adventure.  Tough at the time, but great memories later.

[saaz]

It makes the next day's fine wether seem fantastic 

But if it rains again 

[Kev Murphy]

I had rain start near Bowen and it was with me for two days 1200k, all the way to Tamworth... I chose the inland route because northern NSW roads were underwater at the time (Late Jan, 2012)

If it starts raining on me, I just don the wets, and keep going at a slower pace... not talking about misty wets that aren't worth stopping for, but downpours where its harder to see the road.. Part and parcel of the journey....

[STeveo]

Be happy for you to send some over here. We are down to pissing in a bucket come Saturday.

[Totgas]

Rain - it gives you the opportunity to see how many people have no idea how to drive - especially in Brisbane. 

[Biggles]

The tough bits of a ride are those that invoke the most memorable parts of the adventure.  Tough at the time, but great memories later.

Coming home from the Ballarat run in March I was on the M7 west of Sydney and the viz was down to about 100 metres in a downpour.  A lot of cars pulled off the road and their hazard lights flashing (I hadn't seen that done before, and think it was a local idea that caught on).  I was loving the feeling of braving the rain.  My wets were as wet inside as out and my gloves might as well have been woollen mittens.  But I remember it vividly, and that's what it's about, eh?

[hobs]

Rain????? What's rain? Living here in Whyalla is definately bikie heaven. I can count on one hand (or 3 fingers) the No. of times I have been caught in the rain, and I have been here two years. Moved from the soggy east coast. When you make forward plans to go for a ride, the weather is not a factor you include.

[Kev Murphy]

Hobs, I can tell you from first hand experience that you will be in for an education, maybe not this year, or next year, but it will happen again.
I was born in Windyalla, spent a third of my life there, used to own a Des's cab, and my mother ran the kitchen at the Eyre Hotel, so I do have some knowledge of the place. Only 6 to 8 inches of rain per year, but beware when it all comes within 20 minutes on one day.
When I was 9, I witnessed the first instance of this weather phenomenon, then again at 14 years of age, and again at 18 years old.

The summer day starts as usual, hot but not muggy... its a dry heat coming from the North West and the temperature climbs steadily through the day. Around midday, there is a strange red line on the horizon to the north and west, which gets taller, and taller, with black clouds above it.
Dust storm!... when it hits, extreme wind gusts... TV antennas get blown off roofs, Trampolines have to be recovered from neighbours yards, chookhouses and their contents disappear from Stuart, and can be found in Norrie, or Playford.... and the rain is right on top of it, and it rains RED MUD for a half hour.
I was working at the Blast Furnace the last instance that this occurred, when the dust storm hit, the wind was so strong that it blew an 18 wheeler sideways off the wharf near where the slag heaps from the blast furnace are located.
 

[alans1100]

Kev & Hobs,

I can remember some areas around the blast furnace being flooded once or twice while I was living in Whyalla in around 1978. I can also remember one February having 6 inches of rain in a couple hours and flood waters just above gutter level: not bad as we could still drive. These days they'd run into panic mode and close the roads.......lol

[Old Steve]

Remember once finishing a ride in the Bay of Plenty, NZ.  The rain was bouncing off the road surface about a foot high (300 mm for you metricists).  Four of us were on the ride, we were riding west to east and the rain front was travelling the same way at what must've been the same speed because we were in the rain for about an hour.

The last leg was up and over the Kaimai Ranges (check Google maps, -37.881175, 175.920082, the interesting part is the 3 km of twisties where highway 29 goes through the dark green forest), not only was the rain bouncing up off the road but there were long patches where water was running 3" deep (75 mm) across the road.  We went up there really carefully, being on just two wheels, and luckily it's 2 lanes all the way up on the western side so cars could go past us but we'd be extra drenched as they went by.

The next day at work, one of my workmates said, "Was that you riding up the other side of the Kaimais in the rain?  We went past these four motorbike riders, they looked like a drenched mother duck and her three ducklings."

But each of the four of us will always remember that ride, it's something no-one else did.  So celebrate your ride jf3000, that was some storm and you'll have a tale to tell for many years - in fact as the years go by that storm will get worse and worse