Partly sunny with a chance of sky ice.

[Randy]

Edit: not me or my video.

Edited September 9 by Randy

[gstallons]

You should do this in a t-shirt , Levis and no helmet when you are 16. 

[Pressureangle]

2 hours ago, gstallons said:

You should do this in a t-shirt , Levis and no helmet when you are 16. 

One day we'll trade stories. Two 21 year old morons leave Detroit for Daytona on a '72 Norton Commando and a '76 BMW R75/6. 

February 25th. 

[gstallons]

You feel like there are one hundred people w/slingshots hitting you w/ice cubes

[footgoose]

1 hour ago, Pressureangle said:

leave Detroit for Daytona

the smart part

[Pressureangle]

2 hours ago, footgoose said:

the smart part

on a '72 Norton Commando

The dumb part

[LowRyter]

Hail?  Funny story, a few years ago the Mrs and I were riding the EV on the Highway of Legends in SE Colorado.  We made a clockwise loop starting from the SE going west then north to Walsenburg and south to Trinidad.   We got a some hail northbound and headed south, caught it again on I-25.  Luckily it was no bigger than ice cubes.   Luckily, didn't accumulate on the roads.

Edited September 7 by LowRyter

[Scud]

Good adventure. I actually like riding conditions like that on a dirt bike. On the street, not so much. Where was that?

 

[Lucky Phil]

It's not even proper hail for goodness sake. It's just pea sized cute baby hail or hard rain.

This is small hail. Wrecked the panels on the car but the house survived ok unlike the apple sized hail that wrote off 2 cars half the house and garage that hit my house back in 1990 in Sydney. 

Phil

Edited September 7 by Lucky Phil

[Randy]

2 hours ago, Scud said:

Good adventure. I actually like riding conditions like that on a dirt bike. On the street, not so much. Where was that?

 

Pikes Peak.

[activpop]

2 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:

 apple sized hail

Phil

Never heard of it that big. I assume if you got hit in the head by one you're a goner.

[Lucky Phil]

1 hour ago, activpop said:

Never heard of it that big. I assume if you got hit in the head by one you're a goner.

The massive ones in 1990 would have killed you. All the damage was done in a 30 second burst. I was in the garage at the time and the roller door went nuts so I stood inside the garage and pushed on it to help it not blow in. As I was holding it from the inside there were about 30 5mm deep dents being hammered into it from the hail outside. It was like a 30 second horror movie. The front of the house was destroyed, 5 60 foot high trees in the yard snapped off 3 feet above ground level, 2 written off cars all the fences down and a wife screaming in the kitchen floor taking shelter. I couldn't of even gotten to the house if I wanted to I would have been killed. BTW I actually was out in the hail storm for a brief period with the hail in the image shown. It hurt getting hit, a lot.

Phil 

[billgreenman1]

My dumb ass ran out into 1+in. hail to throw cardboard onto my windshield. It clipped my ear and drew blood. 2007.

I'll just wait and watch from now on...

[gstallons]

5 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:

The massive ones in 1990 would have killed you. All the damage was done in a 30 second burst. I was in the garage at the time and the roller door went nuts so I stood inside the garage and pushed on it to help it not blow in. As I was holding it from the inside there were about 30 5mm deep dents being hammered into it from the hail outside. It was like a 30 second horror movie. The front of the house was destroyed, 5 60 foot high trees in the yard snapped off 3 feet above ground level, 2 written off cars all the fences down and a wife screaming in the kitchen floor taking shelter. I couldn't of even gotten to the house if I wanted to I would have been killed. BTW I actually was out in the hail storm for a brief period with the hail in the image shown. It hurt getting hit, a lot.

Phil 

And there's nothin" you can do.

[LowRyter]

So far as hail damage, size is a factor for damage but I find the wind to be the real culprit.