How scared are you of wet roads?

Pretty sure the few dirt riding skills I have saved my bacon there!

 

That was a great save. I bet the sphincter was clenched after that.

 

I fear riding in the rain.

But I ride rain hail or shine. It adds to your book of experience. And I intend to have an entire set of Encyclopedia Britannicas in the next ten years.

Riding only in the dry handicaps yourself in the world of riding. Because there will be a time you'll get stuck in the wet and its good to have that experience to draw on. It may save your life.

Dont you mean BEEF?

Thats another thing. Every road rider should ride dirt. It teaches you so much in regards to unpredictable surfaces that will help you in wet weather conditions.

If only I could afford a trail bike.

And the room to put it.

And the time to ride it.

 

Didnt bother me at all when i had the mc22 as a young buck. Scares the piss out of me now to ride the Zx10, just so unpredictable the power delivery in the wet. The ole 250's are a lot more forgiving in the wet.

 

Very as well! It didn't help that i was riding home from the tire shop with 2x brand new tires lol

 

Gravel/sand scares me more but in Melbourne the tram lines can be a death trap especially when wet...

 

Yes, I can imagine they would be.

 

Couldn't agree with you more....couple years back I had a CBR1100XX and loved it however, in the rain or more on wet roads one had to be very careful with the throttle....can get very scary.

 

I found the bigger heavier bikes with wider tyres much easier to handle in the wet. You can't smash the throttle though, that's true.

 

For my short commute to work (about 5km) I will ride in the wet, any distance more than that I will take the car

 

A wet road does not scare me when it is raining.
A wet corner when it has not rained scared the beejeezus out of me.

 

I commute about 50 km return trip each weekday.

I'm not scared of riding on wet roads, despite a couple of mishaps. Nothing I couldn't walk away from yet and lessons learned about roadcraft in the process have made them less frequent.

I do need a better ventilated helmet or another coat of visor anti-fog though...

 

i ride to and from work rain, hail or shine. just ride to the conditions and take it easy. got caught out in the big lot of rain a few months back in brisbane and took me 3 hours to get home, if i had been in a car or on public transport would been more like 6 or 7 hours to get home.

 

When I first got my cruiser, with the feet forward seating position, wet roads really spooked me.

It's since proved itself to be really stable, although I'm still worried by slippery road markings.