Wind gusts & crosswinds

[icemakk]

I just rode the west coast and in Oregon the winds were so fierce we did the rest of our trip inland.
Had an incident where we got a bit of relief in a treed section. When we came across a cross road it was like the wind was waiting to punch us (5 bikes in the group at the time). It felt like getting hit with a medicine ball while on mud. The bikes were all over the road as we had all let our guard down for a second.
One way I found to keep steady in these cross winds is to transfer more weight to the foot pegs. Ride on as though you are almost trying to stand on the pegs and it lowers the mass keeping the bike from weaving as much. It gets a bit tiring but when you get hit with wind try the weight transfer.
Plan B is to pull over for a coffee .....for about a day!! 

[pawnee]

Me and my daughter rode through a storm on the way home recently. Cross-winds were fierce with debris also. The most concern I had was the low tread Shinko I had on at the time, now riding with PilotRoad2. Anyway, we were only 8 miles from home so we kept going. When we left Sonic we were 40 miles from home at bike-night, doing 90+ until the storm front hit. I stayed in my lane, and we were tucked in low to make less of a sail to be blown by. Ol' Silver never missed a beat and when we pulled into the garage we laughed because we soaking wet, anyway, my wife was upset we didn't call when we left town. The Bandit is a strong motorcycle