Literally, Hail!!!!

Last night I take the wife out for a dinner ride. Weather is cool and clear, nothing in the forecast. We cruise the country roads home and we are watching a spectacular lightning show. The clouds look like they are moving away from the house. All is good..........until we are about 90 seconds from the barn. It starts to rain, raingear is hanging in the barn, no problem we laugh a little, gonna get a lil wet. 60 seconds out the sky opens up and the rain pours, we are still good, just real wet, not laughing so much now. 30 seconds out and I just about get knocked off the bike, dime size hail started falling fast and HARD. [:@] Wife has a bruise on her hand from getting hit, and I have couple of knots on my head. We could not get in the barn fast enough. I got off the bike and had a lap full of little frozen *****....

I can now say I have rode in all types of weather.

 

Really? Weird! We had perfect weather here in Fortville. And were not all that far away from you. Funny how the weather works. Glad you guys are okay!

 

After I got in the house, I checked the radar and our area was the only one in the state with any weather at all.[:'(]

 

LUCKY YOU!

 

Friend of mine was riding in Washington State when Mount St Helens erupted. It began to snow ash. Slippery like soap and two inches deep he kept laying the bike over on its side until they could get in to a motel where they camped out for two days!

Now that's all types of weather! [:'(]

 

Didn't think you were out long enough to have frozen *****....

OH! Sorry! Re-read your post, and I was mistaken....

 

I never ran into hail but did get konked off the head REAL HARD while riding the highway at faster then legal speeds by SOMETHING. I THINK it was a very large bug but could have been a rock from someone's tire. In either case I'm lucky i had my helmet on because it rang my bell and threw my head back with the impact. (While doing 80 in the interstate) Without the helmet I think it would have taken me out. So now I never ride the highway without my cap. On a slow summer's ride at Hampton Beach I don't wear it but anything over 35 MPH I do. MY CHOICE though ... I totally support a riders right to decide for themselves. [8D]

 

I got caught in some hail last fall...enough to cover the road for a little while. We were traveling about 400 miles that day and the guys I was with continued to push through it. I thought they were nuts. Roads were covered with only tires tracks showing clear pavement.

I have heard stories of western Kansas getting so much hail they DOT's needed to break out the snow plows. Not fun stuff to be in at all.

 

That's strange . We had hail here (Ontario) on Saturday afternoon. Luckily I was in the house, and the bike was inside too.