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Coldest I've been out in was -18C. That was nippy! Not as nippy as you'd imagine though, very strange to see your breath freezing. Visor practically useless at that temperature. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Once it gets to single digits I have to have a bloody good reason to go out on the bike.
A Double Sossidgeanegg McMoFo is a good enough reason, sometimes. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5 |
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So cold my hands couldn't operate the controls with much accuracy.
Enough to make me pull over every 30 miles to wrap hands around the cans and do starjumps when nobody was looking.
Plus not possible to pee. A) Couldn't operate zip B) Penis hibernated to rear of a pathetic cave.
Iridescent ice dust on the roads, windy, iced up mirrors and screen.
Bike was full-faired, rider was a bellend to contemplate riding +100 miles for a photo tag. ____________________ Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
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Risk of ice used to be what made me become circumspect about riding. I had kit down to coping with just about any temperature though, that was never what put me off.
In the old days when my kit wasn't up to it, it didn't even have to be freezing to end up with hot aches in my hands when thawing at journey's end. Just soaked through in cold-ish temperatures. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha World Chat Champion
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Posted: 08:06 - 25 Nov 2021 Post subject: Re: What's The Coldest We Go Out On Our Bikes |
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GettinBetter wrote: | When the temp gets around the 4 degrees mark I shirk at the thought of venturing out for fear of black ice... so are peeps still out at these temps? |
Yeah - 4 is the absolute minimum afaic, primarily because there'll be some microclimate under trees or in dells etc. where it could be quite a bit colder. Which of course means ground frost, or worse still - yeah - black ice.
But if it's a dry, cold sort of day with a clear sky and lots of sun, and I haven't ridden for a week or three, I'd definitely be up for a late morning blast. We were out on Saturday and it was cold up here on the wolds, but heading back to Squires late dinner time, the worst of it for me was the low sun. Absolutely dazzling, and my visor is kind of shagged now - probably has about 50k on it. So I was trying to ride with it open, but up around 60 it was coming down again (when new it was good for 80 - really good!).
Temperature-wise though, my linings have been back in for a good few weeks now - and I've got some loose moreno under layers on as well. With all this and more, I'm fine for a few hours at 6-7 degrees. Even my hands are okay (no grips), in summer gloves with good feel. ____________________ "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
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BanditsHigh Worse than a woman
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Rode year round for the last 30 years ... -18c was the coldest (in Glasgow) I've ever ridden in.
Luckily been working from home since last year so missed last winter ... will be retiring soon so won't need to go out on the bike every day for work again ... oh happy days
I prefer snow to ice as I can see it ... got caught on the M80 one year in heavy snow ... single lane, 5mph, with artics passing by a few feet away .... very, very dodgy!!
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davebike World Chat Champion
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Ride to work every morning unless the A22 is impossible snow or ice covered !
Avoid my favourite lanes route if the temperature at home is below 2c
Otherwise, no issues commuting handguards heated gloves and good ish kit OK up to an hour
Pleasuere riding better kit RST pro heated jacket better heated gloves etc etc ____________________ Dave
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I've been sliding down the M1 on a Divvy 900 from Wakefield in minus conditions with snow around in the past. It's no fun having the choice of sitting in standing traffic freezing your nuts off, or filtering through slushy snow in-between the traffic.
I've come in on my Caponord ETV1000 this morning at 4C, the roads look nice and dry for a great ride, but then the chuffing gritters have been out and spoilt it all - they never seem to get it right! No rain forecast, no minus temp's forecast (for my area) so why!!??
Which means the roads have been slimey on corners and roundabouts and slow me right down. I'm not hugely trustful of the Caponord anyway due to it being top heavy, let alone on slippy corners.
Soon as it starts getting wet and icy, that's me in the car - I don't like being a dry weather biker, but no point risking a slide when I don't have to. ____________________ Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
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Prawny Nitrous Nuisance
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blurredman World Chat Champion
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All year every year. I haven't really had the opportunity to ride in colder weathers than just a few degrees below freezing though.
Though, my commute used to be through the city. Lots of stop and start and slower speeds meant not much of an opportunity to get too cold.
Now that i've moved, I have access immediately to dual carriageways and a constantly moving traffic means getting a chilly willy is mostly due to 'wind chill'. Still, our climate doesn't really get very cold so if you can get to work okay at 32 then you'll be fine all year. I've only just started to tuck my jumper in.
One reason for continuing to use the bike in winter (I purposely ride the crappy one for the salt), is not because I don't have a car.. I have three, but parking at my place of work!?? Forget about it! You have to be in 2 hours early or park it outside the hospital grounds half a mile away, and have to keep moving it every 2 hours because of parking time limitations! The bike is free to park, and gaurenteed space in a secure compound too!
Somewhere in Bosnia in 2015. I was on the way to Sarajevo.
https://www.bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=105214 ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k. , 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k
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This was quite cold, the trick is to clench everything in fear, none of this relax bollocks.
https://images.versys1000.com/iceme2511e944b55aee82c.jpg
And I'm not in this picture, I was taking it and that was my old CX on the left. To be fair, it wasn't snowing when we left home, it started after we got to the rally field, probably wouldn't have left home if we'd known. Everyone was tougher then, waiting for the invention of Goretex etc.
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yen_powell wrote: | This was quite cold, the trick is to clench everything in fear, none of this relax bollocks.
And I'm not in this picture, I was taking it and that was my old CX on the left. To be fair, it wasn't snowing when we left home, it started after we got to the rally field, probably wouldn't have left home if we'd known. Everyone was tougher then, waiting for the invention of Goretex etc.
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Lol quite right. loving the leather and jeans look. I was lucky enoughto have soem Belstaff wax over-trousers in those days - in fact I still have set I loaned to my little bro recently!
I remember going out on my RS200 to take a bird to the pub (L-plates up the jumper time) in 1982 - by the time we arrived having picked out way through teh snow/ice wheel ruts for 5 miles I had icicles on my eye-lashes... Brr..
Won't do it now, unless there was still a bird involved maybe ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
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I used to commute all year round until one winter I slid off three times in a month, with the last one grinding through the cover and taking out the alternator. Having the bike off the road forced me to look at alternatives and I discovered the train, which took longer but was warmer and had totty... I have only ridden in sub-zero temperatures on my terms since, and not for a few years now. ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting... |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 152 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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