There are times NOT to ride

i don't mean to be a collage kid but i think the thing should be called a rear wheel cylinder.
 
Jagster said:
Well........heat is like the opposite of what you ride in
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It is now I live in up North... People up here start stripping off and complaining about the heat when it goes above 19 degrees. In Newcastle no one under 60 appears to own a coat or a jumper. I had a customer offer me a cold drink and ask would I like to come in out of the sun when I was working on their roof back in June. It was exactly 19 degrees according to the gauge in the van..
I'm all for it. TBH 20-ish is the perfect riding temp for me. I've long since given up donning the leathers when it goes above 30 in the middle of the day. All I stipulate is the roads are dry and it isn't actually snowing.
I was out and about in the Scottish borders last Saturday. By evening it was 13 degrees and I had the heated grips on medium for the ride home (thin summer gloves). It was great. No insects about, the grips worked a treat and I had the border section of the A68, the Bonner Bridge road to Hawick and the A7 all to myself.
 
I lived in Dumfries & Galloway for many years and at that time my riding was mostly done from the Solway firth all up the west coast to Durness....the situation was either rain on the visor or midges or both.
I tested every type of waterproofs known to man in those years,.....and tents, come to think of it.
I've pretty much had enough of riding in wet and cold weather, but like you mentioned, 19 ~ 20 degrees celsius is the optimum biking temperature....and as dry as possible!
 
Yes, D&G and the whole west coast can be pretty moist. I had a house near Ayr until I sold it this year. There seems to be a little dry climate zone in that area and around the southern uplands. Often I could get a day's local riding in sunshine but looking south west towards the Galloway forest it was as black as your hat and the same north to the central belt and Lomond. I have a friend who lives near Loch Lomond and he says he's barely had a dry day at work this year.
Perthshire is bad as well. I don't think I've ever ridden or driven through Pitlochry on the A9 in dry weather.
It's much better in the north east. I usually find it's a case of look at the sky on the day and pick a direction. If it's black over the Pennines, head for Northumberland, Berwickshire, the Borders and you'll likely get away with it. If it's black to the north east head the other way towards the Pennines.
The bugbear is by the beginning of October County Durham will send the gritters out.
 
Very true!
I did find that if the forecast was unacceptably wet on the west coast for a weekend ride, I could often get a drier weekend ride by heading across the way to Berwick, or perhaps anything east of Hawick.
The Galloway forest is a rain magnet but the roads are superb to ride around in. As is pretty much all of south west Scotland.

Where I live now on the eastern edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, you can normally get a grit free ride till the beginning of November but by then, the fun roads around me are mudded up by tractors.
By'ekk it's grim up north!
I'm too fussy in my old age........that, and my bikes these days are too nice to wreck on salty/sh!tty roads.
 
Jagster said:
I'm too fussy in my old age........that, and my bikes these days are too nice to wreck on salty/sh!tty roads.
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Definitely. There's no way I'll take any of my bikes out on muddy and salty roads. Not when I have a Dinitrol treated Landrover sitting on the drive...

I used to ride occasionally in mid winter when I lived down south, just to keep the wheels turning and scratch the riding itch until spring. But it would always be cold, sunny days on dry roads. The amount of salt up here rules that out. I've been behind riders in the car when they're taking a winter ride over the Pennines on a dry day and seen the cloud of white salt dust they put up behind them. Not for me.
 
TURBO200R4 said:
don't mean to be a collage kid but i think the thing should be called a rear wheel cylinder.
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Mean college kid. You have forgotten more motorcycle knowledge than I currently know.
My brake thingy is fixed for now but I’m going to hit the backroads when it’s 100 today to see if the rear brake stays firm. I still believe the heat has something to do with the rear brake problem. I hope the new thingy works.
 

i have no doubt that heat plays a roll in the problem.
i had a problem with transmission concerning an aluminum housing and a steel valve in the pressure system a woman kept complaining said it was shifting hard so i put my pressure gauge on it and went for a test ride . normal pressures of 100 to125 until it got hot then it pegged the 300 psi gauge and the hose swelled up and the car shifted and it felt like i had just run over railroad tracks.
my point being that the aluminum housing expands while the inside doesn't causing air to enter while cooling off the rubber seals should take care of this and that is where the problem lies.
 
That's a good point....heat transfer from the swing arm casting. That 'cat' is mighty hot.
 
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