Mmmmmmmm.   
      
   RW> I've never ridden mine more than 60 miles from home but have had the RW>   
   pleasure of riding in the rain with that windshield in place. Getting RW>   
   soaked isn't my idea of fun.   
      
    MH> No, and getting stuck in a massive thunderstorm is even worse.  Not to    
    MH> mention very stressful, I poured the water out of my    
    MH> boots when I got home.     
      
    MH> Made the mistake that I thought I could outrun the storm - and lost.     
      
    MH> - Mark   
      
   When I bought my BMW R60 from a friend who moved to Phoenix and rode it back   
   to Bryan, TX, back in 1963, I made a SERIOUS error.  I stopped in   
   Lordsberg,New Mexico for the night, then got up early the next morning for the   
   ride back to Bryan.  I forgot to check the weather!  Hmmmm.  It had a long   
   seat and I just laid down on it horizontal and jammed the throttle open   
   roaring off over the Interstate 10.  No windshield on it either, by the way.   
      
   I was just riding it full wide open all the time.  Errrr until I got just East   
   of Fort Stockton.  I had forgotten to check the weather and yep, there was a   
   HUGE front coming through I hit!   Uhhh, hail.  Bigger and bigger hail until   
   it was way over a half inch and getting bigger and bigger!   
      
   What in the %$%$%$% to do?  Out in the middle of nowhere there was NO place to   
   duck into or hide.  I finally pulled off the side of the highway and crawled   
   under the Beemer and laid it down on top of me to protect me from the hail!  I   
   survived.  As a VERY high time multi-engine instrument flight instructor and   
   commercial pilot even then I really did know what I was faced with as this all   
   developed.  Anyway, I survived the hail shaft passage and got back up with the   
   bike and fired it off again toward home.   
      
   At least the tornado did't hit me.   
      
   No more incidents all the way home.  And .. with my Austin Healey 100 with my   
   hand installed 350HP Corvette fuel injection engine in it that I also owned at   
   the time that would float the valves in high gear at about 175MPH that I drove   
   it at all over everywhere, I think you can see some more here.   
      
   I finished my ride home on the bike from Lordsberg to Bryan in 13 hours and   
   ten minutes total that day.  I'm probably the only one you'll also ever know   
   that after 85,000 miles on this R60, most of it wide open wherever possible   
   this way, even wore out the engine in it so that it locked the crankshaft up   
   in the engine one day.  Even with full oil still in the crankcase.   
      
   Chuckle, ;)   
      
   Mike Luther N117C posted from 1:117/100   
      
      
      
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