Near death experience

St0rmer66

St0rmer66

St0rmer66

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I just had a (possible) near death experience :( . I was riding home from sixth form on my motorbike and just as I was setting off it started to snow. I thought nothing of it as it had been starting and stopping yesterday too. So I set off.. it's getting a bit heavier by now and I can't manage to ride with my visor slightly up like I normally do when going slow because snow was getting in. So I'm then going along the road and my visor got a layer of snow forming on it. I wiped it off a few times and all seemed fine. Then it got really bad (the snow) and I was wiping it off every 10seconds or so by this point. As I said before, I couldn't ride with my visor up because the snow hitting my eyes was rather painful (to say the least), but when I'm going slow my visor tends to steam up from my breath if I don't put the visor up and let some air in. Unofrtunately this happened whilst I was riding along, wiping my visor was doing nothing because the steam was on the inside. So I was effectively riding blind :eek: . I had to ride blind a bit because there was nowhere for me to stop just using the lights of the car in front to guide me (it's all I could see). Luckily I know the road very well and there were no unexpected cars pulling out etc (phew!). I ended up pulling up my visor whilst riding along and having to suffer the pain, blinking like mad to make sure snow didn't actually get INTO my eyes. Not fun :( .

Then to top it off, my back wheel started to slip as I turned into my street though I managed not to fall off thankfully!

Bike+Snow=Bad.
 
That isn't a Near Death Experience .. that was a Near Crash And Cripple Myself Experience, typically aren't Near Death Experiences where you literally die, only to be resusitated? :)

Anyway, sounds very scary, but riding blind surely should have told you that maybe you should pull over? andwait for improved conditions?
 
VaderDSL said:
That isn't a Near Death Experience .. that was a Near Crash And Cripple Myself Experience, typically aren't Near Death Experiences where you literally die, only to be resusitated? :)
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I'm sure that'd be classed as actually dying :p

-RaZ
 
Whats wrong with just opening your visor with a gap the size of your thumb or less?
Works fine for me for the steam.
For the snow just keep wipeing with your left index finger, nothing much else you can do until you stop.
 
MoNkeE said:
I'm sure that'd be classed as actually dying :p

-RaZ
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technically yes .... :) umm :p you may have a point, I may be thinking of Out of Body experience :p either way, i think we all agree it is daft to ride a bike, in snow, blinded :)
 
The thought of pulling over didn't occur to you? I wouldn't care whether I was on a motorway or in a residential area, when driving a bike becomes as dangerous as it did for you, I'd pull over.

Hardly a near death experience either, try driving at 50mph into the side of a Fiesta piloted by a drunk driver :p
 
Normally when people talk about a near death experience its when they actually died or were on the brink of death and had a weird experience like seeing a light at the end of a tunnel.
 
Apart from the one actual crash I've been in (near-two-other-people's-death-experience), which sucked, the worst thing that's happened to me when I was driving was that a lorry in front of me (quite a way in front, I was keeping a good gap) lost a tyre and let out a huge cloud of smoke and chunks of tire which all bounced off my windscreen. Couldn't see anything for a moment and was terrified I was going to go into the back of the lorry. Fortunately, he went to the hard shoulder and I slowed down and went round him. Nasty.
 
Scuzi said:
The thought of pulling over didn't occur to you? I wouldn't care whether I was on a motorway or in a residential area, when driving a bike becomes as dangerous as it did for you, I'd pull over.
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That's exactly what I thought :D What a numpty ;)
 
Seconded...

Darwin candidate for sure....
As said by other people... why didn't you just pull over and walk it home?
 
I couldn't see to pull over in the first place but then when I managed to get my visor up it was managable, though very cold on my face! If I had known it was going to start snowing so heavily I never would have set off on the bike, but once I was half way home I just thought I may as well finish the journey..
 
I could have died last night :eek:
The main fuse for our electrics in this student house melted and nearly caught fire in the early hours of the morning! I did think fuses were meant to prevent this, but clearly this one didn't!
 
Thats happened to me before. Just have to keep the visor up and bear the pain. Also you should have pulled the visor up straight away as it was steaming up. Doesn't take long to pull it up.

Also you should have just wrote slowly in 2nd gear with both your feet just off the ground.
 
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