Adventures in Rykering

[gkamer]

Today was finally a warm and sunny day, after several days of cold and rain, so I thought I'd take advantage of it to take a nice little ride.

Cruising down the highway, I was hit with a really sudden strong gust of wind. I noticed something coming towards me out of my peripheral vision. Instead of following the first rule of self preservation and ducking, I chose option 2 which was to turn my head to see what was trying to kill me. Just in time to take a stupid tumbleweed right across the handle bars and chest. I had to pull over and clean tumbleweed out of my instrument panel and riding jacket. So yea, that was different.

[SportsterDoc]

It was nice in Las Vegas today (back to hot next week) and even nicer in the mountains.
Wore better ear plugs and it was peaceful...but so peaceful that every time I looked at the speedo, it was much higher than expected...and that was going up a better than 6% grade above 6,000 feet elevation.
No wild horses to be seen at Lee Canyon meadows, but a nice ride of 91 miles.

[Markubis]

Today was finally a warm and sunny day, after several days of cold and rain, so I thought I'd take advantage of it to take a nice little ride.

Cruising down the highway, I was hit with a really sudden strong gust of wind. I noticed something coming towards me out of my peripheral vision. Instead of following the first rule of self preservation and ducking, I chose option 2 which was to turn my head to see what was trying to kill me. Just in time to take a stupid tumbleweed right across the handle bars and chest. I had to pull over and clean tumbleweed out of my instrument panel and riding jacket. So yea, that was different.

Thanks

I just laughed out loud while sipping my coffee at work. No ones here yet though. :-)

[chris56]

like every year we made our "grossglockner" Tour - 8 hours for around 350 miles up to 10.000 feet in the mountains - wonderfull weather but still a cold wind over the snow !
This roads are more for Ryker-Adventures, a of of tight curves, faster to ryde with the CVT gearbox and downhill incredible brakes .. better than any Spyder !!
thats Rykering !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMlDtJwZDv0

[Arion]

Wow, that must have been a surprise. Gotta admit it's not every day a person is attacked by a tumble weed. Must have been a rogue one?

[ARtraveler]

Today was finally a warm and sunny day, after several days of cold and rain, so I thought I'd take advantage of it to take a nice little ride.

Cruising down the highway, I was hit with a really sudden strong gust of wind. I noticed something coming towards me out of my peripheral vision. Instead of following the first rule of self preservation and ducking, I chose option 2 which was to turn my head to see what was trying to kill me. Just in time to take a stupid tumbleweed right across the handle bars and chest. I had to pull over and clean tumbleweed out of my instrument panel and riding jacket. So yea, that was different.

That's one for the books. The attack of the tumbleweed.

[Peter Aawen]

That's one for the books. The attack of the tumbleweed.

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[Markubis]

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We have something similar up here in the northeast. We call it a snowdrift.