Wet gear!

[Disco Dan]

Ok, so I waterproofed my cordura gear this season. Results were mediocre at best. However my gloves go slimy and yuck....

How do you dry them off really quick? ie I get to work at 3pm and they are soaked... need em dry by end of my shift at 11pm that same night...

Hot water cupboard? Microwave?

[ManDownUnder]

When I get home I simply lie the gloves across the top of the forks so the engine heat wamrs them through. By the time the bike is cold the gloves are nicely dry. It's not so hot so leather doesn't end up cracked and bloody awful

At work - best I can do is put them in an airconditioned room so they're in a line of air coming out of a duct. Works ok... a LOT better than nought.

[Disco Dan]

When I get home I simply lie the gloves across the top of the forks so the engine heat wamrs them through. By the time the bike is cold the gloves are nicely dry. It's not so hot so leather doesn't end up cracked and bloody awful

At work - best I can do is put them in an airconditioned room so they're in a line of air coming out of a duct. Works ok... a LOT better than nought.

Oh cheers for that, I bet that wont work if its still raining though

We dont have air conditioning at work, only a hot water cupboard in the staff office.

I was thinking of getting some oven paper and laying it on the oil heater with the gloves on top?

[scootnz]

stuff em with newspaper and put in hot water cupboard. change frequently.

[vifferman]

Before I got my dual 19" LCD monitors at work, I used to put my damp gloves on top of the monitor - works a treat for drying them (especially in concert with the aircon).

At home? I park them in the lounge on the arms of the exercise thingie (we have aircon at home too).
The glubs are easy, as they're 100% waterproof, so only get dampish and don't take much drying. Boots = same same.

However, my jacket gets kinda wet, so I hang it in the gargre from a special jacket handing wire on the beam above where the VFR parks. When it's stopped dripping, then I hang it in the lounge, on the back of the door, and wait for the vifferbabe to complain about it "wrecking the door" or "dripping on the carpet", whereupon I respond (this is a silly game) with "the door hinges are stronger than the trim above the doorway" (where she wants me to hang it) and "it's not dripping anymore".

Helmet's tricky - I usually dry it with a tea towel, and leave it on the kitchen bench for a while. If the lining/padding's a bit damp, I stick it in the lounge on a clothes airer.

Pants - usually leave them on for half an hour after I get home which dries them pretty well, but if they're not dry get thrown over the stair railing (no - not DOWN the stairs; just draped over the railing!)

[steved]

Ok, so I waterproofed my cordura gear this season. Results were mediocre at best. However my gloves go slimy and yuck....

How do you dry them off really quick? ie I get to work at 3pm and they are soaked... need em dry by end of my shift at 11pm that same night...

Hot water cupboard? Microwave?

Simplest way for pants and jacket is probably prevention with a rain over-suit.

[Macktheknife]

COrdura gear is designed ot have no material of any kind on the waterproof membrane, otherwise it 'wicks' through.
The best thing to do is to wash the cordura gear (without armour) in 'sportwash' or similar product, do not use normal washing powder etc, this is important as this (sportwash) kind of product leaves no residue. If you want to be doubly sure you can also use 'Gecko Guard' or similar to help waterproof the outer layer, but it must have full curing time or it doesn't work properly.
As for drying the gloves etc off, you can put them in the hot water cupboard stuffed with newspaper, but when they are fully dry, use something like Snoseal to help waterproof and maintain the leather, same for boots.

[pritch]

However my gloves go slimy and yuck....
How do you dry them off really quick? ie I get to work at 3pm and they are soaked... need em dry by end of my shift at 11pm that same night...
Hot water cupboard? Microwave?

This place is like a hothouse so mine usually get dry during the day.

If I think I'm likely to get stuck with wet gloves for some reason I take a second pair. I leave a pair of shoes at work too, the boots don't usually let water in during the few ks I travel to work.

[crashe]

Ok, so I waterproofed my cordura gear this season. Results were mediocre at best. However my gloves go slimy and yuck....

How do you dry them off really quick? ie I get to work at 3pm and they are soaked... need em dry by end of my shift at 11pm that same night...

Hot water cupboard? Microwave?

Carry a second set of gloves....... while the first lot are drying off and if they are not quite dry to ride home in...... place them in a plastic bag and wear the second set...... then when home put both sets in the hotwater cupboard to dry out.

Its what I do and it works....

Pays to have 2 sets of winter gloves in the winter season for those torrenchal downpours.

[TerminalAddict]

At work - best I can do is put them in an airconditioned room so they're in a line of air coming out of a duct. Works ok... a LOT better than nought.

I searched before I started a thread .. is everyone proud?

So is hanging my dririder jacket in the server room where the temp is 19 degrees, and there is constant air flow the best option?

Or is it better to hang the jacket in the main office where the air flow is almost nothing, but the temp is 21 degrees?

[ManDownUnder]

I searched before I started a thread .. is everyone proud?

So is hanging my dririder jacket in the server room where the temp is 19 degrees, and there is constant air flow the best option?

Or is it better to hang the jacket in the main office where the air flow is almost nothing, but the temp is 21 degrees?

LOLOL top man

Go for airflow. Once the moisure is liberated from your jacket it's best if it can go somewhere...

[BMWST?]

I searched before I started a thread .. is everyone proud?

So is hanging my dririder jacket in the server room where the temp is 19 degrees, and there is constant air flow the best option?

Or is it better to hang the jacket in the main office where the air flow is almost nothing, but the temp is 21 degrees?

air flow + temp is better than 21 with nino airflow,plus its sorta outa the way in the server room.......will anyone kick up a fuss

[TerminalAddict]

LOLOL top man

Go for airflow. Once the moisure is liberated from your jacket it's best if it can go somewhere...

like into the blade centre?

.......will anyone kick up a fuss

I am the head cat herder :P

I've fashioned a drying spot in front of one of server room a/c's hanging from the side of one of our racks .. I hope it works

[klingon]

Thanks for reminding me I have to dry my gear... got home last night and left it in a pile in the laundry. It's not going to get dry like that.

I'm working from home today but there is no hot water cupboard or air conditioning... hmmm...

Gloves will have to go on top of the fish tank lights!

[vifferman]

Gloves will have to go on top of the fish tank lights!

Reminds me - CRT monitors make good glove driers; not so the new fangled LCD ones (too little rack space). Luckily I purloined a coat rack that was going to be thrown away when we moved offices - it now sits right next to my desk! Ya for office A/C (even if it has a wider range of climates than the outdoors). The coat rack is where my bike gear hangs, and it also has some handy prong things that poke up - perfect for placing gloves over (after carefully arranging the fingers into ...um... dodgy positions).