I had stopped near State College PA Tuesday evening while spending the week roaming around in the PA woods. I found a cool little hotel that has parking right outside your room door and the lobby checkin area is a very well stocked beer store:
We had checked in, collected a six-pack of Dogfishhead 60 minute IPA and were getting settled in to our rooms when the weather started looking a little ominous. I went to the open door of my room and in the span of about 30 seconds it went from barely raining to 70+ mph wind that blew both our bikes down hard. It was blowing so hard I couldn't go pick up the bike at first and watched it snap off all the power poles across the street from the motel. Sparks flying all over and several cars were trapped under the power lines while they were sparking. The wind finally lessened after just a few minutes and we got the bikes back up on their feet and not 30 minutes later it looked like this:
I've dropped that bike more times than I can remember riding in the woods and even on asphalt and never got much more than scratches on the cases. This time it was thrown down so hard that it knocked off the locked lid, destroyed the latches, and deformed the case bashing it in.
Our hotel and most of State College was without power (and still was when we left) and I walked out to the street the next morning and got this short video.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-RgwPN25m...V10L7uMpStOupm
If you google State College Derecho you'll see this very scene, that was about 200 yards away, in many of the news reporting. We're pretty lucky we weren't on the bikes. This thing hit so fast there was no time to react to it and we were right at the epicenter of it. We're also pretty lucky we decided to go to a hotel and not camp nearby in the Seven Mountains area of PA as it got hit pretty hard as well I'm told.
https://youtu.be/ZI6PhSbIpCU?si=mA1Jo47lKKsCNsbN
On the flip side, it was perfect riding through the wilds of PA forests and we did several hundred miles of forest roads and back roads over 3 days. Temps in the 50s/60s for a couple days and the last day it got in the 80s and got pretty warm.
The only damage resulted from that much time riding in the woods happened in the hotel parking lot while I watched our bikes get tossed.
We had checked in, collected a six-pack of Dogfishhead 60 minute IPA and were getting settled in to our rooms when the weather started looking a little ominous. I went to the open door of my room and in the span of about 30 seconds it went from barely raining to 70+ mph wind that blew both our bikes down hard. It was blowing so hard I couldn't go pick up the bike at first and watched it snap off all the power poles across the street from the motel. Sparks flying all over and several cars were trapped under the power lines while they were sparking. The wind finally lessened after just a few minutes and we got the bikes back up on their feet and not 30 minutes later it looked like this:
I've dropped that bike more times than I can remember riding in the woods and even on asphalt and never got much more than scratches on the cases. This time it was thrown down so hard that it knocked off the locked lid, destroyed the latches, and deformed the case bashing it in.
Our hotel and most of State College was without power (and still was when we left) and I walked out to the street the next morning and got this short video.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-RgwPN25m...V10L7uMpStOupm
If you google State College Derecho you'll see this very scene, that was about 200 yards away, in many of the news reporting. We're pretty lucky we weren't on the bikes. This thing hit so fast there was no time to react to it and we were right at the epicenter of it. We're also pretty lucky we decided to go to a hotel and not camp nearby in the Seven Mountains area of PA as it got hit pretty hard as well I'm told.
https://youtu.be/ZI6PhSbIpCU?si=mA1Jo47lKKsCNsbN
On the flip side, it was perfect riding through the wilds of PA forests and we did several hundred miles of forest roads and back roads over 3 days. Temps in the 50s/60s for a couple days and the last day it got in the 80s and got pretty warm.
The only damage resulted from that much time riding in the woods happened in the hotel parking lot while I watched our bikes get tossed.
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