Saturday, April 7, 2007

Cold is...

75 MPH down the highway on a motorcycle when it's 25ºF out.

Heated handgrips just moved to the very tippity-top of my "gotta have" list for the bike.

That is all...

4 comments:

Ambulance Driver said...

LOL...cheer up.

Down here is Lousyanna, I fell in the drink duck hunting once and was too stubborn to head back in.

Let's just say you don't know pain until you've stood for hours in waders filled to the nuts with freezing water, AND your fingers are too cold to get them off when you finally get back to the truck. *grin*

Ride Fast said...

I have an electrically heated vest. It's just marvelous. I've got sockets to plug it into on both running bikes.

Since your trunk stays warm, your body doesn't slow blood flow to your feet and hands. They are then much warmer, too.

Jay G said...

AD,

That sounds cold. Damn cold.

'Course, I'm one of those crazy motherfuckers who will swim in the Atlantic Ocean. Off the coast of Maine. In April...

fodder,

My hands were the only part of my body that were cold. I had on triple layers everywhere else, but my heaviest gauntlets weren't heavy enough apparently.

Heated grips would have made a fantastic different. And a heated seat...

NotClauswitz said...

The BMW had heated grips on our Edelweiss trip, I found them less effective than I hoped, the temperature range was too narrow and sharp. A vest would have helped in the alpine rain, the aerostich leaked like a sieve through the zippers, should have worn my MSR gortex enduro stuff.