"PilotMan" (Pilotman)
02/25/2016 at 10:19 • Filed to: None
4
12|
"PilotMan" (Pilotman)
02/25/2016 at 10:19 • Filed to: None | 4
| 12 |
I rode to work this morning at 80MPH with a temperature of 28 degrees F, that’s a windchill factor of 4.7 degrees F(-15.2C). Refreshing.
My Abarth (not the red pictured) got in a bit of fight with a spinning FJ that lost control on the freeway. My 20 days of rental coverage are up today and so I decided to do some early spring riding. I have warm gear but it was still cold.
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> PilotMan
02/25/2016 at 10:28 |
|
Some things owning my BMW F650 has taught me:
Grip heaters + Knuckle guards are the BEST. THING. EVAR.
never underestimate the importance of a windshield when it’s below 30F on your ride.
That's gonna leave a mark!
> PilotMan
02/25/2016 at 10:34 |
|
Quit bragging. Tell me you did it naked and then you got something - if you could find it by then.
Wacko
> PilotMan
02/25/2016 at 10:39 |
|
this is my Yamaha that I should’ve used to go to work with this morning.
i have the same machine, this is not my pic.
|
PilotMan
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
02/25/2016 at 10:42 |
|
Those are definitely on the list, at least a set of hang guards. I have a mean pair of gauntlets but when it’s that cold they just can’t stay warm.
46and2aheadofme
> PilotMan
02/25/2016 at 10:42 |
|
True story, I started riding in Indiana where there’s no helmet law and when I didn’t know any better. But the first time I put a bike down hard, I was wearing a helmet because it was simply too cold to ride without it. Learned a lot that day.
|
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> PilotMan
02/25/2016 at 10:48 |
|
The grip heaters are even nice when it’s NOT cold, I find that after a 3- or 4-hundred miles if my hands are feeling a little numb and/or tired I can turn on the heaters to low and it’s like a nice warm hand massage. Bingo! the next hundreds of miles don’t look so bad. (source: riding from Essex Vermont to Rockland Maine and back in one day in August).
If my next bike doesn’t have stock grip heaters I WILL be adding after-market ones.
|
PilotMan
> 46and2aheadofme
02/25/2016 at 10:56 |
|
Bugs and gravel in the summer also make it worth wearing a full face helmet. And also imagining what would happen to your face if you slid face first down the freeway.
The above shows an impact diagram of motorcycle accident impacts, the numbers are consistent with a rider traveling face-forward in a crash. 35% of the impacts are to the jaw and mouth.
|
46and2aheadofme
> PilotMan
02/25/2016 at 11:01 |
|
That’s a great graphic, illustrates the point nicely. It also makes me wonder about the dynamics of 0.4% of crashes where the crown hits first.
|
PilotMan
> 46and2aheadofme
02/25/2016 at 12:05 |
|
Makes skull-cap helmets seem even more stupid.
|
PilotMan
> Wacko
02/25/2016 at 12:05 |
|
Those heated grips and giant wind screen would have been nice.
|
PilotMan
> That's gonna leave a mark!
02/25/2016 at 12:06 |
|
Anything exposed and protruding into the wind-stream probably would have frozen and broken off.
|
Wacko
> PilotMan
02/25/2016 at 13:28 |
|
they do help, but what helps the most is the heated lens on my full face.