I might leave a comment on a video once a year, but had to jump on here and leave one for you. It looked to me like you handled your bike, the weather and other traffic very well. I have ridden for hours in a moderate rain, but only in a proper downpour like that a couple of times. Well done, and you gained a lot of good experience and I assume a new level of confidence riding in that weather. Speed Safe!
Thank you for your comment :) it was pretty intense and I never want to ride in that situation again lol, especially with a dark visor on. I've been riding for about 4 years now, roughly 60,000 miles between all 3 bikes with nothing but Twisties, UT never rode in that severe weather before. New Achievement unlocked! 😁
As long as you have decent tires and a waxed visor riding in the rain isn't normally much fun, but motorcycles do better than most riders realize they will. It's all about being slow with your inputs: acceleration, braking, steering. Although it's been my experience that the brakes don't work in the rain anyway. 😂
It's a nightmare getting caught on one of those country roads in tornadic weather, especially on a bike. Thank God you were able to get in the city limits and under an underpass.
In Texas…….during severe weather season……learning the signs of the sky relative to the chosen route and your speed relative to the speed of the advancing storms is crucial. Not just routine storms, but conditions favorable for tornadic storms. At 0:36, the thunderstorm anvils are noticeable & indicates mature storms at that point. There’s enough time to pull off and rethink a plan to re-route or seek a shelter. Had you driven into the mesocyclone of a developing tornado, your escape routes and ability to use them would have been greatly reduced on the flooded road and in higher winds. Nonetheless, glad you made it through and are okay and thanks for the video.
Been there done that lol. I've been caught in several storms here in bell county; thunderstorms, hail, sleeting rain, missed a tornado once! People have no idea how things quickly go south with the weather during tornado season on a motorcycle........
That was so scary! I'm so glad you pulled off the road when you did. Nice of people ask if you wanted to get in their car. Great riding, l will say. Handle the road and weather like a pro. So glad you were unharmed
Ive rode in some serious downpours but I would have gotten off a long ways back. riding the emergency lane is where all the tire puncturing debris goes to die. cruising for a flat or worse a large chunk of anything over there.
Yeah I could barely see the road, let alone the Debri in the emergency lane with my dark visor...but it was either that or flood my engine getting taking the exits
QUICK STORY WHILE I WAS IN THIS STORM: I was at school and they announced that we were in a watch for storms for 3:30 but I was on a call with my friend and some of my in person friends at school, then "BOOM" and the wind hail and wind was blowing to the window at 60+ mph gusts but luckily we were all safe but the my friend on the call they got hit by a ef1 tornado and their house got Damaged badly but they rebuild after a month or two and I was okay im here at home great and so and so on
Stick to riding on good weather days, i would not even think of riding on a day like that, it’s not like you didn’t know that that type of weather was on its way.
I just has a nightmare that we were experiencing a mild earthquake so I turned on the news. On the news we saw china was still having one EQ after another and it was being felt all around the world.
One of the more interesting weather movies. Just a Texas cold front, but going thru it on a bike. Wow. Why didn’t you put your umbrella up? You’d been a lot dryer. lol.
