Worst pain in my life

[Eddie Hitler]

Finished work at 5.15 and it was very cold outside. (No shit).

Halfway home and I start to feel the cold effects on my hands.

I also had to pull over to take my goggles up as they were misting up 1 minute after I stopped and cleaned them.

By the time I got home my hands were incredibly painful, but oh man I didnt realise how they would feel when they warmed up.

I was on the floor screaming in agony, and I mean that.

It was just the worst thing ever.

Soo anyway..

[NSR Mick]

You should always try to warm yourself up at the same rate you cooled down I think.
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[St0rmer66]

I love that feeling. But I also love 'pins and needles' that you get when you've been sat on your leg funny or something .
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[iooi]

You got to warm up slowly....
Bowl of cold water 1st

Or straight onto Mrs bare skin...... That insures the air temp rises very quickly and gets the blood flowing as well..
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[Itchy]

buy some bar muffs , sickpup was supposed to be selling them months ago but has as yet failed to come up with the goods.

I just turn on me Zen and ignore it its not even chilly yet.
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[Charlie]

Invest in heated hand grips?

From my lifeguard training, if someone has Hypothermia then you have to try and warm up the persons skin at the same rate as you warm the body... So water from the cold tap and luck warm water/ribena in my opinion.

I can remember have really cold hands when I had my scooter and can remember it being painful to get them warm again.. but never that painful. Poor sod.
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[Eddie Hitler]

I usually stick another pair of gloves on underneath my motorbike gloves, but I forgot too this morning.

Bear in mind my gloves have a few small holes in, where they have caught the hedgle coming out of my house.

Explained why 1 finger on my hand was fine, and the rest were bright red.

[mr.z]

Muff it up!

Even handguards help allot, but appart from actively heated gloves nothing beats muffs... appart from muffs with heated grips, but then for the money your approaching heated gloves land..

Right now i'm still wearing my summer gloves, needing to turn the grips down because there too bloody hot.
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[Charlie]

I'm with Mr.Z on that one. I still use my spring/summer/autumn gloves with heated grips. My finger tips get slightly cold on my 30-40 minute ride to college but it isn't that bad.
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[Fahd]

It's times like these a man has to love his 'cage'!
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[NSR Mick]

[D O G]

[ram_doom]

You need a set of ski gloves and barmuffs.
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[Nb]

Muffs are the way to go!! Wish i could fit them to my new bike, i used to love them on my old bike.
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[craigs23]

I've got some of those 3 digit gloves - paid about a tenner for them. Felt a bit like cardboard at first, but very warm - I haven't needed to use inner gloves yet despite riding in sub zero temperatures for 30 miles.

[Charlie]

[LeeR]

Eddie are you a southern poofter?
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[Eddie Hitler]

Nah.. East Anglian..

[LeeR]

Say no more...
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[trevoriv]

Doing ~100mph for 90 minutes in sub zero conditions made me bleed from the fingernails a bit

Only had my summer leather gloves on, got someone to warm me up when I got indoors though
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[Noxious89123]

I have to ride 106 miles tomorrow after work.

My hands are going to fucking fall off. And my feet come to think of it....
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[stinkwheel]

My knees got pretty bad once. Rode from Edinburgh to Aberdeen. My fingers were pretty much forgotten about by halfway, couldn't work the brake and clutch but I didn't need to on that bike.

It only started to get REALLY cold when it got dark and I started coming up into the hills where my folks live.

It was wierdly still and clear and my breath was starting to crystalise as I was exhaling. Very strange, I've never ridden in conditions like that. It was an intense cold but very dry, you could ride with the visor up but you could also feel it nipping the skin over your cheekbones without a sensation of it being actually cold.

Pulled into the drive and stayed on the bike. Couldn't straighten my knees to get off. My Dad came out and held the bike while I rolled off it then gradually pushed myself up onto my feet and kind of hobbled inside.

It honestly felt like my knee joints had frozen up, you could feel the cold deep inside them.

I got changed into some warm clothes (fresh out of the tumble drier ) and defrosted my hands under the hot tap. That hurt but my knees were REALLY bloody sore though, as was all the skin along the top of my thighs.

Went outside when I got warmed up to put the bike away and check the thermometer in the garden. It was reading minus 18!
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[D O G]

[yankeedoodle]

i had the same this morning.not nice is it?!
even with two pairs of gloves on
you can get heated grips and gloves and stuff if your willing to pay the money
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[craigs23]

The worst thing I've found with the cold is how it sometimes dwindles my concentration; especially as the last 10 miles of my commute is filtering through rush hour traffic.