Will Rain AND Cold Temperatures Keep You From Attending A Poker Run?

[Elmo]

You have a rally / poker run that you have been planning to attend. But, the forecast calls for a 100 percent chance of rain with temps. in the high 40's to low 50's.

Question: Are you still going?



Elmo

[Wheels of Fire]

High 40s is kinda warm... 38 - 40 and rain, now that sounds like Moonshine!

[BamaRider]

For a poker run?? I ain't going, but I'm not going if its 75 and sunny.

BTDT, I'm not anti social, but I am select about who I ride with.

[kaptkobe]

I'm not anti social, but I am select about who I ride with.

Wow that makes me feel special, so guy ya gonna come to wedding stoc

Not to hijack the thread I'd probably make the event

[BamaRider]

Been to one poker run, sponsored by the local HD shop. About 500 bikes. Every 10 miles or so we stopped at some club, everyone picked up beer and a card, on to the next stop. At the end of 50 miles it was one big party.

Kinda left a bad taste in my mouth about Poker runs.

So who's gettin married?

[Elmo]

Been to one poker run, sponsored by the local HD shop. About 500 bikes. Every 10 miles or so we stopped at some club, everyone picked up beer and a card, on to the next stop. At the end of 50 miles it was one big party.

Kinda left a bad taste in my mouth about Poker runs.

So who's gettin married?


No bars, no beer... family affair... only stopping at gas stations, "Minit Marts", "Quik Stops", etc...



Elmo

[Don-STOC237]

ST's? Poker Runs?

:crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup

[Killtimer]

:popcorn :beer2: :mrgreen:
What Don said.....

[Elmo]

ST's? Poker Runs?

:crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup



Explain...? :confused:



Elmo

[Sink]

I will usually donate to the cause if I was planning on going anyway, but don't see the need to ride in bad weather for something like that.

STumpy and I usually try and get there at the start and lead the pack. If they get too close, we can take care of that. We don't ride with the drunks, that's for sure. Small groups of 4 or 5 is the tops. We usually leave before most of the "bikers" get there. Just do it for the ride and maybe some feasting on asphalt. Cold isn't so bad, but if you add rain..... been there, done that, no more. Traveling and hitting rain is a different story tho. If ya gotta go, ya gotta go...... Just stop for some BACON to warm you up!

[ST Dan]

rain and cold, no problem, I would still do it (around here over 40 is considered warm!:) )

snow and ice on the other hand will prevent me from riding:mad:

[M&M Take2]

Well it's more like it's too far for me not that I ain't goin, but I hope whoever goes has a great time! Cheers Marty

[Elmo]

Copied from my other post...



Well, we've had as many as 110 bikes or so in the past... no one but yours truly showed up today. Mid 40's and rain... are there no men (or women) left in this world? :confused:

So, I went for a ride all by myself... 170 miles and loved it, so there!

Now I've got to clean up all that chrome... :mad:



Elmo

[GRN]

Right at this moment... I would KILL for 40-50 and raining like hell! :cus: Beats the crap out of the 12-16" of snow we have coming. Silly me, had my calendar turned to April, better fix it and turn it back to Feb.

40's to 50's (which is only cold to you southern folk;)) and a lot of rain describes the entire suite of Northeast STOC gatherings last season... DACKSTOC was renamed AquaSTOC, NESTOC was renamed SUBSTOC... no less than 70% of the STOC related miles I put on last year were in the rain, and under 60 degrees.

[RibsST1300]

I hate poker runs & charity rides..where I come from, it's hundreds of guys you don't know, on their Harley's or other Customs that they only ride once a month at the Poker Run, and they are hot dogging and showing off their straight pipes, and probably drunk.

Add to that cold and rain, forget it.

Now give me a ride to a charity event with 4 or 5 trusted friends I ride with often, and I'd probably brave the cold and rain for a really good cause, otherwise, a check is in the mail!

[stackman]

Poker I hardly new her. Sorry

Nope no cold rain for me.

[vnsfxr]

I voted I'd go but only if its a charity ride.

I very rarely do the group thing unless its a good cause with food and a party after.

[2dogs]

You know, I've never done a poker run.
But a charity event that I plan on attending or a RTE ; A little rain or 40's won't keep me home.
H3LL, I rode to Moonshine in '07 lol. :D


:06biker:
Dave

[Coop]

Could the stops be a couple hundred miles apart?

[BlaSTr]

I figure the fewer attending, the better my odds of winning - something. :D

[Bones]

Poker runs and charity rides are not for me.

Rain happens, and if I'm going to a rally or riding with buddies and I've got the time set aside to ride, then I'm going. Some rides in the rain have been especially memorable, like with Carl_T, DawnNinja, and EddieMack at NESTOC last year, or with the DackSTOC crew. SteveST1300 and I rode to NH in some of the most hellacious rain I've ever ridden in last September...it was something!

Into every life a little rain must fall. Deal with it and go ride!

[John Anthony]

I don't understand the question. From a Northwest perspective, that's darn near perfect riding weather. <<ok, maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but not that much. Maggie and I rode in worse weather last weekend.>>

John