Near death experience

Soldato
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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.
 
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..
 
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