Drying motorcycle kit

[natefz6]

So I am sure this topic has been done to death but I did do a quick search and found some stuff relating to gloves. but..

Yesterday I got pretty caught out in the rain and got fully piss soaked. Since returning I have had my textiles under a blowy heater in a room with an extractor fan pretty much all night and all day an the things still are not dry. Its like they have some sort of magic water storage in them, I could have cured the drought in California with the amount of water in them.

My jacket is just about wearable after being on the towel rail on a low setting but my trousers are still very damp as are my gloves.

I am thinking that they may be getting a bit old and thats why they absorbed so much. They are goretex and I was not wet but the water was literally pouring off me when I got in.

One thing I am thinking for my new house is getting a towel rail with a hook above it in the down stairs loo to dry my kit. My experience today/yesterday indicates that might not be enough.

Any one have some voodoo magic method they use to dry things faster? or gadgets I love a good gadget (as long as it works).
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[Andy_Pagin]

I just hang my kit from a picture rail over a radiator overnight if it gets really sodden. Usually does the trick.*

* Radiator needs to be turned on full blast.
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[weasley]

Jacket and trousers: try to make sure they are as open as possible.

Gloves and boots: stuff them with newspaper, right down into the fingers.
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[MarkJ]

If you've got one, use an airing cupboard I hang my sopping wet kit in there and it's dry by morning.

However if I forget, so long as the next day is dry I wear the damp kit and the ride dries it all out.

[Jefr0]

Is your goretex kit still repelling the rain or soaking it in?

Mine lost it's repelling magic lately (3 years old) so I went the Nikwax route, washed and then treated.

It revitalises the goretex 'membranes' in the jacket/trousers.

Well, I only did mine at the weekend. Took a couple days to dry from completely submerged in the sink with the nikwax stuff.

Today I noticed my trousers were repelling very well but my jacket not as much.

I been reading up lately on it. You need to clean them as they clog up the material with dirt and road grime and stop repelling. Once clean then they just need revitalising and 'should' work again. I'm testing mine at the moment.

For this winter I'm looking at buying another set of goretex clothing for times where they're a bit wet to be putting on in the morning but hopefully this nikwax stuff will do the job instead!
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[TheArchitect]

I just hang my gear in the bathroom overnight with the window open. Always dries out fully even after the worst of downpours. Remember to remove the inner linings and hang them separately to get maximum air through the kit.

Perhaps invest in cheap over jacket and trousers for the worst days. My set fold up into a tiny ball so it doesn't take up too much space in the rucksack. Will save you from getting completely drenched.

With gloves I just stuff them down the back of a radiator overnight, usually sorts it out.
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[barrkel]

Get quality kit that doesn't soak up water - e.g. goretex proshell. Hang up, it'll be dry in ~4 hours of room temperature, or leave in a heap in the floor in the corner (as I usually do my trousers), it might take 10 hours.
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[totalllama82]

I hang mine up in an airing cupboard with the boiler at home. Generally use my waterproof 1pc suit though so it tends just to be my gloves and boots.
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[natefz6]

This is Daniese goretex a bit like this one linky but an older version with the matching trousers.

They have the inner Goretex membrane that still works for about 40 mins. Its just the outside that soaks it up but then you get that damp feeling. I will try the Nikwax and see if that helps it repel the water a bit more. If not I will start looking at a new textile outfit, at least then I will have two to alternate if it rains all week like this week .
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[finniee]

I'v ended up just dumping my textiles in the bath wringing them out, opened the bathroom window and closing the door and putting the heating up a few degrees for 2/3 hours then on the radiator for an hour or so usually does the trick.

Was drenched and the heating wasn't working so wringed out trousers and jacket and sat with a hair dryer drying them.

[Lupo]

[Moo.]

I use a klim goretex pro jacket, the stuff is brilliant!! Doesn't soak anything up in a downpour and within half hour of being sat in a cafe its pretty much dry! The same couldn't be said about my cheapo waterproof over trousers with let water through the crotch and soaked into my kevlars, which trying to dry while camping in a tent.. Is nigh on impossible. And bloody cold after 180 miles of freezing alp passes..
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[ADSrox0r]

If i get properly caught out i tend to hang my clobber on a clothes horse next to the dehumidifier on full blast. Usually sorts it out over night.
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