HOW TO: Stay warm and dry on your bike

[glice]

Yep until you dry out again and then you are just a mere mortal like the rest of us.

crap, better run back outside for a bit

[scumdog]

Got caught miles from home, rigging cold,damb, .........
Put newspapers inside your jacket, will give added thermal protection from the cold.
If its raining, put the papers inside shopping bags, with the opening down.
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C'mon Subike, get with the 21st century man

Bubble-wrap is the new newspaper - water doesn't soak through it and cheap as chips - of course not so readliy available. (how many rolls of bubble-wrap have you seen sticking out of somebodys mail-bax??)

[nodrog:Me]

....Please add your own suggestions (I know, I don't need to ask).

take the car, heaters rock!

[Subike]

C'mon Subike, get with the 21st century man

Bubble-wrap is the new newspaper - water doesn't soak through it and cheap as chips - of course not so readliy available. (how many rolls of bubble-wrap have you seen sticking out of somebodys mail-bax??)

OMG you suggesting I pilfer someone mail box!
lol
newspapers can be found everywhere, not so bubble wrap
I was suggesting this if you are caught out in the rain, not leaving from home

[madbikeboy]

Great post, and you had my attention until you started mocking Gixer riders. For being sensible and leaving our bikes at home. Where they're warm and dry... Ahem...

[xwhatsit]

You might want to post this in the UNI forum, Ive never seen so much spare parking on symonds street (yesterday) at the hint of winters approach.

...twas sad !


For what its worth I ride a sprotsbike (well actually its a sport tourer I suppose, but I digress...) and I didnt run anywhere... Of course, Im leaving work early so I dont have to share the road with too many other motorists in this crap weather... ESPECIALLY THAT DAMM LIGHTNING

That's because it's currently uni hols for a week!

If you learn how to tie a scarf properly, you don't have ends flying around all over the place. Those neck tubes (like wot GiJoe1313 has) look very warm, though. Only problem is you can't wear it with your normal clothes afterwards.

For the record, I am an unemployable student

[Ixion]

Neck tube won't go with the Mk VIIIs

[Luckylegs]

That's because it's currently uni hols for a week!...

...Of course it is, sorry !


Although the (albeit embarassed) redneck in me still says...

Fookin Students !!!!

[glice]

cut a hole in the top of a beenie, tada neck tube

[xwhatsit]

Mk VIIIs

...?

[Hitcher]

Heated handgrips are marvelous! Scoff if ye must, but I reckon that in extreme conditions they make the difference between just being a bit moist and uncomfortable versus full on hypothermia.

I also recommend wearing layers of merino, particularly around one's torso. Rip the zip-in thermal liner out of your jacket. They're pretty useless anyway. Even if merino gets wet, it doesn't get cold

[xwhatsit]

Heated handgrips are marvelous! Scoff if ye must, but I reckon that in extreme conditions they make the difference between just being a bit moist and uncomfortable versus full on hypothermia.

I would, but they conflict with my essential essence (at least in a motorcycling context). DBD34s and Tritons aren't perhaps the best motorcycles for this kind of thing.

Who changed the title of the thread? HOWTO is perfectly cromulent.

[MyGSXF:Me]

I used to wear plastic bags over my socks.. under my boots.. & dubbin'd my boots. That way, even when the rain did eventually soak through my boots, my socks & feet were still dry! Also helps to keep the cold wind off, even if it's not raining!

Now days I wear a pair of thin rubber over boots, & also bought a good set over over pants & jacket that are slightly padded. They keep me warm as well as dry!

[sweetp]

If anyone could recomend ulta small (dimention) heated hand grips I would love it! I kept crashing my bike when I first got it till we worked out that the grips were to big for me to wrap my hands around and reach the levers. Also struggled to find winter gloves in ladies XS!

But the best (but uglist) part of my wet weather kit is my glove mittens. They are waterproof (kind of) and at least keep the vast majority of the rain away from my gloves. Picked them up at a tramping store.

I have to say I am lucky as work has a nice hot shower so I can at least defrost after my 35km commute.

[Coldrider]

If anyone could recomend ulta small (dimention) heated hand grips I would love it!

I fitted 'Daytona' hot grips and they are the same size as original grips, Oxford also make one that apperas to be the same (not their velco wrap around type).