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Re: Riding in the Rain?
Reply #15 - 05/30/14 at 10:57:35
 
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm
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Re: Riding in the Rain?
Reply #16 - 05/30/14 at 13:49:06
 
I'm on the wet coast and I intentionally ride in everything except snow. Riding in that isn't intentional. I've fab'd up a stainless mud guard that extends another 4-6 inches beyond the front fender. It helps a ton in the rain. I still get soaked but I no longer have grit on my pant legs when I get home. The advice given earlier is spot on. Ride even more defensively. Slow down on corners and an avoid slippery things like paint, leaves and the oil covered center section of each lane.
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Re: Riding in the Rain?
Reply #17 - 05/30/14 at 14:20:40
 
greenmonster wrote on 05/30/14 at 13:49:06:
I'm on the wet coast and I intentionally ride in everything except snow. Riding in that isn't intentional. I've fab'd up a stainless mud guard that extends another 4-6 inches beyond the front fender.  


Can you post a picture of that? It sounds like a great idea. I've been thinking about modifying the front fender instead of trying to retrofit something else.
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Re: Riding in the Rain?
Reply #18 - 05/30/14 at 15:03:27
 
I don't have any shots of it right now. It was one of those things that I did at the end of a work day when we were having a biblical downpour. I felt I'd had enough and took a scrap of sheet metal, put two 90* bends in it for the sides and drilled a couple holes through it and the fender. Then I pulled out a scrap of 1/8" neoprene foam that we had kicking around and sandwiched that in between. It ain't pretty, but it works.
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Re: Riding in the Rain?
Reply #19 - 05/30/14 at 21:18:28
 
I've been thinking something like an old CB350 fender on the front just haven't figured out where to mount the supports from the front and rear.

What happened to chrome fenders anyway?
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Re: Riding in the Rain?
Reply #20 - 05/31/14 at 09:52:35
 
Theres a RR track that crosses a Busy road in TYler,, It crosses in a curve, a 45 MPH curve where most people are running 50. NOT knowing its there & running up on it in the rain could literally be a mans downfall,,
& the asphalt gap is kinda wide, too, probably 4 inches, so, its a bike crash waiting to happen, especially in wet..
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