I had some business to do in Seattle, so I thought I would make a bike trip out of it from Spokane. On the way there I noticed some crazy rattling going on and I needed a tssm module programmed so I thought on my way home I would stop at Eastside Harley and get done what I needed. To make a longer story short, they had my bike a couple hours longer than expected. So I am heading back and about 2 hours from home it's 9 at night and my night glasses are nowhere to be found. So I have to wear my sunglasses. I am heading toward Spokane with the cruise set at 80, barley see the road, and nothing but lightning strikes all around me. Some were so close they almost blinded me (even with the sunglasses on). The whole time all I was thinking about was my wife sitting at home worried because it's late and the lighting....etc. Well I get home at 11 and all the lights are out, I go in to tell my wife I made it home OK and she wakes up with the sour lemon look on her face, like "why are you waking me" lol. Oh well. By the way Eastside was pretty good. They even let me take out a couple demos to tool around town while my bike was being worked on.

 

gotta love that lightning.........

 

Man I did the same thing this past weekend.

Went to DC to hang out with some friends Saturday night. Left early evening Saturday and would be coming back Sunday morning/afternoon (daylight on both trips, no need for night glasses). End up hanging out with this girl all day Sunday, spin it into a date with dinner and a movie in Georgetown, then had to ride home around 11PM Sunday night. Scary as hell. Couldn't read the road at all. Really screws with your depth perception. I guess if I had really been on my game I wouldn't have had to ride home to Baltimore until the morning... oh well.

Only difference is I didn't have anyone to answer to when I rolled in at midnight, although I did have to wash the DC snobbiness off of me immediately.

But yea, wearing sunglasses at night - not as cool as the song makes it out to be.

 

You aint kidding. Especially when you start to see it ahead of you and you start thinking " I am heading right in the middle of that"

LOL. I was actually thinking about that song this morning when I woke up.

 

Good grief man, I would have been pulling over as fast as my brakes would allow.

 

80 at night with sunglasses and can barely see??? Where do I sign up?

 

Yeah in retrospect I could have done things different. I had been riding for 500 miles and just wanted to get home.

 

Panoptics. photocomatic lenses no worries

 

Where were you? Up on highway 2? I heard yesterday evening they had some nasty thunderstorms up that way with some flash flooding that washed out some roads up around Hartline. Had the scanner on and cop was pretty frantic that they had to get some closures ASAP. We didn't get any rain or storms around here in Moses Lake.

 

better to ride with no glasses at night then sunglasses,I lost a friend that way few years ago.
he was wearing sunglasses at night ,1/2 mile form his house he hit a black cow standing in the middle of the road and died.In a pinch,you could always stop at a hardware or discount store and grab some cheap safety glasses
I hate the severe storms,gotta watch out for tornado weather in the flat country,and the hail sucks really bad too!