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Bat
Mon May 29th, 2006, 07:26 PM
So I had the bike up Poudre Canyon this weekend...was camped at Kelly Flats. Windy as all hell most of the weekend. Fortunately most of the bad weather stayed further up the canyon (rain and snow).

Wanted to hit up the pass yesterday afternoon but weather in the 30's and snow prevented my candy-arse from doing it on the bike anyways. Saw several cruisers (couple of them right up near the pass as the snow was starting to stick - poor suckers) and also saw a few sportbikes over the weekend. Just wondered if it was any of y'all. :)
Mecha Hayai
Mon May 29th, 2006, 09:26 PM
VWGuy was up there in the snow yesterday. He got caught in it with another riding buddy on the way back from Steamboat. Sorry I missed it.
:lol:
RCStylin
Mon May 29th, 2006, 10:21 PM
Yeah...that happened to me last year on this same weekend. I was sick for a month after riding in the snow/sleet/rain for a cople of hours. Brrrrrrrr!
vdubguy2k
Mon May 29th, 2006, 10:39 PM
Yea me and another guy left Fort Collins around 10am on Sunday morning and went up to Steamboat. Going over rabbit ears pass on the way up was chilly but not too bad. We grabbed some lunch, stopped at wal-mart to get some sweatshirts to put under our jackets and headed back. About 10 miles into the pass it was snowing so bad I couldn't see a thing so we turned back around and went to Steamboat. We hung out for a few hours and it looked like it cleared up a little so we hauled butt over the pass. It was cold as hell and windy but we made it to Walden. We gassed up and headed down 14 into the poudre canyon where we got nailed with heavy rain and snow like crazy. Since there was no where to stop and hang out we toughed it out and rode...had to stop a few times and warm our hands up on our tail pipes to keep the feeling in them though!

Crazy how different the weather can be...once we got back to fort collins it was like 75 degrees and no wind...damn this Colorado weather!
TurboGizzmo
Tue May 30th, 2006, 11:55 AM
NOTE TO SELF: no riding with Vdubguy haha

Geeezzz it was pretty darn nice down here, the cities were empty since everyone was "out of town"
Bat
Tue May 30th, 2006, 01:42 PM
... headed down 14 into the poudre canyon where we got nailed with heavy rain and snow like crazy. Since there was no where to stop and hang out we toughed it out and rode...had to stop a few times and warm our hands up on our tail pipes to keep the feeling in them though!

Dayum, might have seen you! You coulda come and warmed yourselves by the fire - silly, frozen boys. ;)



NOTE TO SELF: no riding with Vdubguy haha
Geeezzz it was pretty darn nice down here, the cities were empty since everyone was "out of town"


Yepper, snowing at the Pass BUT looked like this on the way up (Fri) and the way back (Mon) - not too shabby... :D

http://i2.tinypic.com/117b43q.jpg