New personal best

[SS Junk]

I have never lived in an area where the traffic is more unpredictable. On 66 eastbound it can be a walk in the park one day and then backed up past the Gainsville exit the next.
It's just like today. It's raining like crazy, but fuck it if I will be stuck in traffic in the rain so I ride. It keeps me from wanting to pull the asshole out of his car in front of me and beating him over the head with his cell phone.

[O.C.]

New personal best. Just forgot to post it. Decided to do the hour long commute to work a few months ago when it was 10*F. Wasn't too bad. Wore the same gear as listed including the heated gloves. Only thing that was painfully cold were the tops of the legs and the toes were a bit nippily too. Key became frozen in the ignition. Had to wait a few hours before it would let go. Fortunately my office complex is away from main roads and can see the parking lot out of my window.

It's amazing the lengths people go to in order to avoide getting stuck in traffic here. On days that I've had to spend 15-20 minutes scraping the ice off of my car I will see motorcycle zooming up the I-395 HOV lane.

I never though anywhere would make me miss Dallas traffic.

[dsrtuckteezy]

neat

[SS Junk]

New personal best. Just forgot to post it. Decided to do the hour long commute to work a few months ago when it was 10*F. Wasn't too bad. Wore the same gear as listed including the heated gloves. Only thing that was painfully cold were the tops of the legs and the toes were a bit nippily too. Key became frozen in the ignition. Had to wait a few hours before it would let go. Fortunately my office complex is away from main roads and can see the parking lot out of my window.

[UserX]

More like new personal worst.

[dsrtuckteezy]

ill ride into the low 30s... i stay pretty warm, but my hands are my only problem. hard to hold on to the grips and work the clutch when you cant feel your fingers! haha

[SS Junk]

I ride into Newington, going from 66 onto 7100, and bypass that entire DC bullshit mess. Commuted into DC for seven years and from what I saw there, I'd never dare ride a bike within the beltway. Commute distance is 43 miles. It takes almost exactly an hour on the bike both mornings and afternoons. On 66 by 6am going to work and 3:30pm going home. If I were to drive it'd take right around an hour and a half both ways.
And no, that "traffic nightmare" is now extending into Gainsville. During this time of year merging on 29 onto 66 going Eastbound in the mornings you have about 1/4 mile of free driving until you are in stop/go because of merging traffic from 234 by-pass, 234 business and crazy merging going on between 29/28 until I get off at 7100. Before 66 was widened after 234 business it was grid locked past 234 bypass gong westbound in the afternoons.

[O.C.]

I-66. FUCK ever riding on 95. I had to take it on the day of the earthquake and saw three wrecks happen in a 10 mile span. Only bikes I ever see when it's below freezing are Fairfax motor units.
I take 66 from Haymarket to 7100. From there it slows in Manassas with other merging HOV and then around 29/28 when people are trying to merge out. Average speed is around 45 to 50mph when traffic is thick.

What is your total commute time in on the bike and are you coming the wole way into DC? I have coworkers who VRE from Gainesville and it takes like 2 hours. Haymarket is a nice area and you are at the end of this traffic nightmare.

Most bikes I see on I-395(HOV) are headed into the Pentagon since they have a large motorcycle parking lot and I believe it is first come first serve. I'm over at L'Enfant and it's impossible to find affordable and safe parking.

[Super Coupe]

<-- 13* and sleeting for 32 miles. My visor froze over almost immediately, so I had to open it. I had wind/cold burns on my face for several days. My eyes hurt something fierce.

Why the crap is anybody riding in this weather?

[SS Junk]

Which HOV are you bringing into work up in Northern Virginia, I-66 or I-95? The I-95 seems to shave time off but the I-66 seems to slow up due to people jumping in and out. 21 Degrees today and I still saw bikes onm I-395 HOV.

I-66. FUCK ever riding on 95. I had to take it on the day of the earthquake and saw three wrecks happen in a 10 mile span. Only bikes I ever see when it's below freezing are Fairfax motor units.
I take 66 from Haymarket to 7100. From there it slows in Manassas with other merging HOV and then around 29/28 when people are trying to merge out. Average speed is around 45 to 50mph when traffic is thick.

[O.C.]

Which HOV are you bringing into work up in Northern Virginia, I-66 or I-95? The I-95 seems to shave time off but the I-66 seems to slow up due to people jumping in and out. 21 Degrees today and I still saw bikes onm I-395 HOV.

[Craizie]

<-- 13* and sleeting for 32 miles. My visor froze over almost immediately, so I had to open it. I had wind/cold burns on my face for several days. My eyes hurt something fierce.

[fordracing19]

I rode in the teens on my electra glide. The fairing makes a huge difference.

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[Treasure Chest]

you take that for the same thing or what? Never had that mentioned by other people that have it.

I've been on it for about 9 years now for Raynaud's. It makes a huge difference for me.

[89stangGT]

Are you medicated for it? Procardia changed my life.

you take that for the same thing or what? Never had that mentioned by other people that have it.


I hope everyone that rides in this cold is checking their tires pressures. I just aired up the tires in my car yesterday and then today by about 1pm they were down to 27psi on all 4.