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What is the best bike to ride to avoid contacting Coronavirus?
- Thread starter nickrides
- Start date
A lot of the coolpeople ride F-Bikes
OM
I guess red-headed stepchildren can be kinda cool?
No, it was built in Lincoln Nebraska.
KenDittrick
Rocky Bow BMW Riders #197
Right now I would need a snowmobile...
Any of the F model bikes. Everyone will social distance themselves from you when you ride it.
Awww man. Now you have done it. Watch for a package from me in the mail and open it carefully.
p.s. Just kidding, of course!
AKsuited
New member
weschmann
Kawa Afterthought
Any of the F model bikes. Everyone will social distance themselves from you when you ride it.
F n K Bikes all belong in the same category and probably both styles safe.
gregfeeler
Dances With Sheep
F n K Bikes all belong in the same category and probably both styles safe.
If you ride an F or K bike, you already know that it's really not "social distancing" when the other guy just can't catch you.
pglaves
#13338
I've been following the latest about the spread of the virus. It seems singing in a choir can spread it widely since forceful singing ejects droplets. Then I read that a good sneeze can catapult the virus 26 feet, and that it might linger in the air for 3 hours. So, assume I am riding down the lonely but not abandoned TX 118 between Alpine, Texas and Big Bend National Park (which is now totally closed except to the bandit patriots who think they can hide from the Rangers). Assume I am headed to Alpine to buy more Spam, Wine, Rice, and Beer. And suppose that last tourist in a fancy painted Cruise America RV that ignored the "Park Is Closed" flashing sign at Alpine (we see about one a day headed south and then back north) tools along but sneezes out the window of the RV. And suppose I enter the invisible cloud of viral Covid 19 pollution from the ignorant "touron". Just suppose.
If I am on the G310 I am exposed to this cloud for X number of breaths. But if I am on my K75 only X-3 breaths. And if on the K75RTP with the super efficient RT fairing I might not even be exposed at all to that pocket of air and droplets. Just suppose. Do the math. I am still confused.
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Yes stay home. I got a ride in the other day and was thinking that it would be all right, hardly any traffic. And then I come up on a car that is sightseeing at ten under the limit. No problem, I am just riding around anyway, and then the cigarette butt comes flying out the window (big pet peeve of mine). As I'm screaming in my helmet at this A-hole he decides to clear his throat and hock a loogie out the window. Ride over, go home to self quarantine, I give up.
akbeemer
SURVIVOR
I've been following the latest about the spread of the virus. It seems singing in a choir can spread it widely since forceful singing ejects droplets. Then I read that a good sneeze can catapult the virus 26 feet, and that it might linger in the air for 3 hours. So, assume I am riding down the lonely but not abandoned TX 118 between Alpine, Texas and Big Bend National Park (which is now totally closed except to the bandit patriots who think they can hide from the Rangers). Assume I am headed to Alpine to buy more Spam, Wine, Rice, and Beer. And suppose that last tourist in a fancy painted Cruise America RV that ignored the "Park Is Closed" flashing sign at Alpine (we see about one a day headed south and then back north) tools along but sneezes out the window of the RV. And suppose I enter the invisible could of viral Covid 19 pollution from the ignorant "touron". Just suppose.
If I am on the G310 I am exposed to this cloud for X number of breaths. But if I am on my K75 only X-3 breaths. And if on the K75RTP with the super efficient RT fairing I might not even be exposed at all to that pocket of air and droplets. Just supposed. Do the math. I am still confused.
The one common risk factor to all your bike options is that breath thing you got going on. Stop that and the virus will be zero threat.
gregfeeler
Dances With Sheep
If you ride fast enough you can super-heat the air around you and kill the virus. I am surprised this has not been reported in the media...
This is true, and if you go even faster that super-heated air "envelope" will deflect (fails to reflect) radar signals. Something like the reentry blackout period when the Mercury and Apollo capsules would return to earth. Really, I wouldn't make this up.
