Cold weather riding
 

The last two days I've ridden to work in fairly cold weather. It made me wonder, how cold it too cold WITHOUT heated gear?

I know this might be relative based on where we live and such, but I'm still curious.

I ride down into the mid/upper 30's and do fine....

What gear do you use?

I've been looking at the Fieldsheer Adventure/Hydrotour stuff...

Humidity, temp, sunshine vs cloudy, fit and quality of existing gear, under garments, layers, speed, rain or dry, full fairing, no fairing, touring style fairing ect. all play factors in how cold is too cold without heated gear.

http://www.twowheelfix.com/showthrea...ht=hypothermia

this thread has some hints.

Well you are no fun.

ill ride down into the twenties with some thicker layers and long underwear. seriously as long as my neck and hands stay warm im ok

Here is my winter gear.

Jacket: Joe Rocket Honda Endurance Textile Jacket

http://www.newenough.com/closeouts/t...le_jacket.html

Gloves: Tour Master Winter Elite

http://www.newenough.com/gloves/insu...le_gloves.html

Thermals: Military 100% Polypropylene. Top & bottom

http://www.zuwharrie.com/gallery/alb...28Small%29.JPG

http://www.zuwharrie.com/gallery/alb...28Small%29.JPG

Pants: Jeans

Boots: Wolverine work boots. LOL

Over pants: I have two different ones. For extreme cold I have a pair of military 100% Nylon pants. They say "Extreme Cold" on them LOL. I have a lighter insulated pull over with suspenders I got from Academy for $25.

http://www.zuwharrie.com/gallery/alb...28Small%29.JPG

http://www.zuwharrie.com/gallery/alb...28Small%29.JPG


Armor: Alpinestar *hybrid*. I call it a hybrid cause it's has the looks of both versions 1 and 2.

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/l...et007Large.jpg

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/l...et008Large.jpg



Yes I do wear all of these at once sometimes. LOL Over my armor I usually wear one sweater.

I did come home sunday from a trip and it was foggy and in the low 30's. I did fine about half the way, then finally started feeling the cold through my gloves. The jacket is nice but it fits rather large around the stomach/waist.

So when it is cold do you find yourself riding differently? For example, when I'm cold I tense up.

Depends. As long as any of my body parts dont stay cold long enough I'm fine. If my chest gets really cold I tense up some and get the shakes.

I really don't like being ballooned up with all the added cover but it's better than being cold. LOL

A guy on my cbr forum highly recommends Alpinestar WR-2 gore-tex gloves. I was going to get them but newenough doesn't keep much of alpinestar stuff at their main building so I didn't get to try them on. The guy said like most alpinestar gloves, the fingers are long.

http://www.newenough.com/gloves/insu...le_gloves.html