Polar Bear Challenge!

[Stephen.Stallebrass]

Right then... Winter is upon us good 'n' true, so I propose a challenge.

Who has ridden their GTR in the coldest and narliest of temperatures? Post a pic of your dash - if you don't post a pic it didn't happen, LOL.

You must have actually ridden it, not just nipped out to take a piccie while your car was defrosting! No other cheating...

I'll start:


Ignore the time I hadn't reset the clock since disconnecting the battery, it was actually about 0830.

[Charlie747]

You must have actually ridden it, not just nipped out to take a piccie while your car was defrosting! No other cheating...




Did I say I worked in a cold store ?..................

That -3C can't be downtown P.Boro can it Steve ?

[SirToU]

That's so unfair..... Last  year was -7... Now I won't get out in a ride that's going to be long enough....  :-(

[Stephen.Stallebrass]

That -3C can't be downtown P.Boro can it Steve ?

It was this Wednesday, a lovely crisp and fresh morning... it was one of those days where the fog freezes on the outside of your visor.

[Lonewolf]

I think Rusty once had a ride home at -7, but I never saw a photo. 

[Ant]

Stephen,

Im surprised your running your brake biased on the strongest in that temperature, more chance of skidding I would have thought ?

I can't get close to that temperature though, all this equipment wasn't on the bikes when I used them everyday, you knew it was cold when you had to put your hands under the cold tap to thaw out once at work !!!!   

[Bryn]

I know it's not the GTR we're talking about, but back in the dim and distant past when I was 16  ( 1977) I had a 10 mile commute on a Puch MS50  ( which is still in my shed )

Remember those times when diesel had no additives and froze in lorry tanks?  well this particular morning there were drivers lighting fires under their tanks to thaw it out on the A6 North of Leicester..... got to work and the thermometer outside the building said -14C 

[Charlie747]

Right then... Winter is upon us good 'n' true, so I propose a challenge.

Who has ridden their GTR in the coldest and narliest of temperatures? Post a pic of your dash - if you don't post a pic it didn't happen, LOL.

You must have actually ridden it, not just nipped out to take a piccie while your car was defrosting! No other cheating...

I'll start:


Ignore the time I hadn't reset the clock since disconnecting the battery, it was actually about 0830.

Stephen looking at your thread reply's to date.............................I think you may have just silenced the great masses of this forum 

A great challenge and as I'm only up the road in Bourne may have a big challenge to beat you 

[Rusty]

Thank you Steve ... can't prove it but last year going from Guildford to London A3 0530hrs on the way in for "days" ... -7 I swear it. My my it was cold and the underground garage at work has never seemed so welcoming !

[Charlie747]

Steve with all the rain this weekend could we alter the challenge to................how deep is the flood we ride through ?



OK ............it was just a thought 

[shaggs147]

its beginning to sound like that Yorkshire man sketch ...... eee when I were a lad I used to ride in minus 20 conditions with snow on t' ground and I used to put ice cubes down me underpants to keep warm   

[Charlie747]

its beginning to sound like that Yorkshire man sketch ...... eee when I were a lad I used to ride in minus 20 conditions with snow on t' ground and I used to put ice cubes down me underpants to keep warm   

[coman37]

I know it's not the GTR we're talking about, but back in the dim and distant past when I was 16  ( 1977) I had a 10 mile commute on a Puch MS50  ( which is still in my shed )

Remember those times when diesel had no additives and froze in lorry tanks?  well this particular morning there were drivers lighting fires under their tanks to thaw it out on the A6 North of Leicester..... got to work and the thermometer outside the building said -14C 

I had the Puch M 50 sports when everyone else had Fizzies and AP50s, looked like a much bigger bike, never ever saw another one

Coman

[SirToU]

Does that include me now?  Although aren't I further North with OC?

To be honest, its warmer here than it was in Cambridge!

Neil

[Ros]

Pah! I've got no chance! 

+12°C again today and clear enough for me to see the mountains from my apartment.

Although three years ago I did ride across the Belledonne mountains in France at -6, but don't remember taking a pic of the dash...  I think that's the coldest I've ridden in. 

I will never forget when I used to live in the UK, when on my way to work on my trusty ZZR, the back wheel spinning up on the ice on the bypass at 70mph....  I was only cruising - not even accelerating!  Ever since then, I've not much liked riding in icy weather for some reason