Thunderstorms

[minutiesabotage]

So who else has gotten caught in one of those microburst/ uber-storms the last couple days?

I would classify the experience as devastating.

[KillBill]

Yesterday.
Brookline, NH - Route 13
Golf Ball sized hail stones for about 10 mins.
Pulled over since the road looked like it had just snowed.

Luckily was NOT on my bike.....thank god.

[*GhostRide37]

i wasnt riding in it but i was outside on break at work and it felt like gods wrath was just coming down unto earth.

[schleppy]

Yesterday before work I grabbed my backback, TOOK OUT MY RAIN GEAR, and headed off to work. All the weather sources said the day was going to be great. NOPE.

Thankfully the last of the mini storms was over just as I left work. My bike got absolutely douched though.

[Jenni]

i've been caught in two the last week. thunderstorm only lasted 15 minutes and i just waited underneath a bridge. yesterday was only a shower. i just raced the rain cloud until i got a sunny section.

[Tricky Mike]

Couple last week including one with some hail... not a whole lot of fun, but nothing too far away from what one can expect out of summers in New England.

[greenmonster]

Went to GBM yesterday...Soon after I got off Rte2 west/Waltham exit and made it to Trapelo rd., the rain starts coming down in sheets...then hail mixes in...tons of it, coming down as heavy as the rain...I could barely see the road at times. Inside my SUV, it sounded like small ball bearings were bouncing off. I made for a gas station to get under those overhead roofs for the gas pumps. I wait a few mins...the hail stops, so I head home...less than a minute after leaving the station, the hail starts again! My front lawn looked like it was January, not June with the layer of hail. Worst I've ever seen. Oh, also...I saw a guy riding one of those BMW scooters...the ones with the canopy that covers the scooter from front to back...ever seen them? That guy was lucky to have the protection.

[Nikon]

they're no biggie. I got stuck in the one in Concord yesterday. Been in worse. I love passing the harleys sitting under the overpass afraid to get a little wet. I give em the devil horns and keep on rollin.

[evile]

Last weekend on a quick errand. I wasn't out more than 20 minutes wearing jeans and a mesh jacket. Felt a few drops about 2 miles from home, within 60 seconds it was a wall of water, in another 60 seconds I was in my driveway and completely waterlogged.

[cbr_chick_nh]

I got stuck at work... my tires only have 50miles on them... rain and new tires don't get along well!

[tom5796]

Last week I checked the radar to decide if I had time to hit the gym. Nope - had to leave right away to beat a storm. 3 miles after leaving work I get pulled over. Charge: can't see your license plate (I have a standard aftermarket FE kit installed). WTF?!? Mr. Policeman can't you see that storm right behind us??? By the time he was finished running my info (no ticket) it was raging and I was drenched almost instantaneously. Wearing riding jeans too so it was an interesting feeling as the water ran down the skin of my legs under the pants and into my boots.

[Wanderer]

Went to GBM yesterday...Soon after I got off Rte2 west/Waltham exit and made it to Trapelo rd., the rain starts coming down in sheets...then hail mixes in...tons of it, coming down as heavy as the rain...I could barely see the road at times. Inside my SUV, it sounded like small ball bearings were bouncing off. I made for a gas station to get under those overhead roofs for the gas pumps. I wait a few mins...the hail stops, so I head home...less than a minute after leaving the station, the hail starts again! My front lawn looked like it was January, not June with the layer of hail. Worst I've ever seen. Oh, also...I saw a guy riding one of those BMW scooters...the ones with the canopy that covers the scooter from front to back...ever seen them? That guy was lucky to have the protection.

BMW C1? Was it in racing-sponsor colours, mainly blue/white with sponsor logos? (HP etc)

If so, seen the same one at MotoMarket a few times, V nice

[spicy]

i thought they were like the BMW Executive series?


and yeah, these storms have been a little wacky... almost like the southwest, from what i hear. it'll be nice all morning, and then mid afternoon (3pm on the dot) it'll pour and thunderstorm for an hour, and then 45min after it stops raining, the roads are back to dry and the skies are crystal clear.

it's never been like this as far back as i can remember, though. excluding the upcoming 10day forecast (which looks to be exactly the same as what we've been having), it's been pretty much tiny, hyper-local but really intense t-storms pretty much every day for the past week+

[ThisBitch]

So this is probably the single most embarrassing moment of my life. I got back about an hour ago from riding all the way out to Portsmouth, then to Merrimack and then home. I didn't cover the bike because there wasn't a cloud in the sky and I planned on going out after dinner. Then I hear thunder.

So I'm in the middle of changing when I hear the thunder. Its really important that the bike is covered if it rains, because there are all sorts of loose branches in the trees over my driveway and I don't want them scratching the bike if they fall. So I run outside in a tank top and boyshorts, thinking I live on a dead end street and only have 2 neighbors. I'm running at full speed and as soon as I hit the driveway, I eat shit. There was a lot of oil and with the water on it, it was really slippery.

So with a flurry of 4-letter words, I Get up and put the cover on the bike. As I turn around to go inside, I see my neighbor, her husband and about 5 other people staring at me in disbelief. I guess they had been having a BBQ and were still cleaning up as I came running out of the house and fell on my face in my underwear. Awesome.

[Fitz]

So with a flurry of 4-letter words, I Get up and put the cover on the bike. As I turn around to go inside, I see my neighbor, her husband and about 5 other people staring at me in disbelief. I guess they had been having a BBQ and were still cleaning up as I came running out of the house and fell on my face in my underwear. Awesome.

It wasn't disbelief... they were just making sure you were ok.

I've been riding to Hudson and back to Goffstown 5 days a week religiously on the bike. Worst day was last week when I got caught in hail in Merrimack but in some ways the experience was pretty surreal. I was crossing over the bridge at exit 11 which is a pretty exposed area. Saw a lightning bolt in the distance over the bank and it started hailing. It let up pretty quick though. Other than that it's just been the rainstorms on the way home from Hudson. No worries. My grass looks like it hasn't been mowed in a month though...

Fitz

[GNTurbo6]

Almost every other day on the bike. Just a risk we take as riders. Granted the weather has been pretty fucked up this year.