Didnt pass any other bikes today...

[MikeDeY]

I'll ride in any temperature, so long as there's no ice on the road.

 

[TURBO200R4]

I'd be riding a lot more often if I could rely on my Rocket starting if the temps are below 45F. No way it starts being this cold. No fire. Getting gas but just won't fire. Brand new battery, too and all the cable mods and starter relay mods and headlight mods.

TIME TO GET YOUR BABY AN ELECTRIC BLANKET.
ON mine all i had to do was a shot of starting fluid.

 

[vanguard138]

Gerbing jacket, gloves, and socks help. And up to a certain temp my Aerostich rain gear is GREAT.

 

[DavidR3R]

I'll ride in any temperature, so long as there's no ice on the road.

Yep, me too

 

[Boog]

Good on ya @CvSisinthehouse, I would have ridden yesterday too but my battery tender froze up evedently. All I could get out of the engine was a single roll over then nothing. I had hoped that putting the tender on over night would ensure my battery would be strong enough but I guess not. Morning temp was 2F here.

I don't pay attention to windchill when I ride. The windchill temp at 80 MPH is usually around -30F each winter morning so I am accustomed to it. My Tourmaster liner and gloves combined with my Hippo Hands and wind breaking chaps keep me quite comfy on the 30-35 minute ride to work. I usually take my first coffe break to go outside and watch the sunrise. Life is good...when the bike starts that is.

 

[Rhode Warrior]

Let's just clarify something before you "badasses" get carried away with yourselves. Riding in the cold or rain or snow does not make you a badass. It's just something you choose to do. In some cases it makes you a jackass. Riding in the cold and rain makes about as much sense to me as going to the beach in the rain. If you want to do it, do it but don't call anyone with enough sense not to do it a pu55y.

I'm almost 60 years old and I still drag race cars and a prostreet bike and race a 100 HP 750cc 2 stroke triple hillclimb bike up hills that would make most guys piss their pants. Does that make me a badass? No it's just something I choose to do but I don't thump my chest over it or even worse, call people a pu55y that don't do it. That's just stupid.

 

[steve59]

I'm suffering from cabin fever like nobodys business. I think wind chill applies on motorcycles but so do clothes,my hands and feet don't last long below 25f anyhow and here in the far west chicago suburbs there's so much salt on the roads they're slippery on a bike and to be honest after freezing my extremities off riding the last thing on my mind is digging out the garden hose and washing off the salt that's eating at any unpainted metal.

 

[Macrider]

-35c (-31f) here this morning with the wind chill. Bike is staying in the Garage for a while yet!

Yeah TO Rocket, what a long,****ty, snowy freezing cold winter this has been. I live a few km,s down the road from you on the lake and the wind is always blowing snow on my place.
Ah well, spring will be here soon enough.

 

[Triple Trouble]

Yeah TO Rocket, what a long,****ty, snowy freezing cold winter this has been. I live a few km,s down the road from you on the lake and the wind is always blowing snow on my place.
Ah well, spring will be here soon enough.

I hear you. I bet I've ridden past that tree in your avatar a thousand times over the years.

 

[TriumPhil]

Let's just clarify something before you "badasses" get carried away with yourselves. Riding in the cold or rain or snow does not make you a badass. It's just something you choose to do. In some cases it makes you a jackass. Riding in the cold and rain makes about as much sense to me as going to the beach in the rain. If you want to do it, do it but don't call anyone with enough sense not to do it a pu55y.

I'm almost 60 years old and I still drag race cars and a prostreet bike and race a 100 HP 750cc 2 stroke triple hillclimb bike up hills that would make most guys piss their pants. Does that make me a badass? No it's just something I choose to do but I don't thump my chest over it or even worse, call people a pu55y that don't do it. That's just stupid.

RW, I'm certain that nobody here is seriously alleging that anyone in the practice of choosing their spots when not to ride being a pussie(sp), least of all Richard (CanberraR3), whose experience with cold weather riding is limited to nonexistant (Note: that makes me green with envy).

Some people are hardier than others, some are considerably more foolhardy than others and then there are folks like me that put comfort and/or safety first before any other considerations.

To those who choose to ride in less than optimal conditions, I trust that they will enjoy that saddle time safely, without compromising their own or anyone else's well-being.