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Old 01-17-2015, 07:15 PM
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Old 01-17-2015, 08:05 PM
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Yeah wind chill.I wish they never had come up with that crap.Anyway,it says "temperature". If it's 30 degrees outside and I'm going 90 mph,it's STILL 30 degrees outside.
 
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I find it interesting that it heats up the faster you go once you get above that 90* mark. There's plenty of days like that down here in the summer. No wonder it feels like you're riding through a blast furnace.
 
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quite a bit diff from a WC factor chart...
 
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Old 01-18-2015, 02:15 AM
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Originally Posted by hdbob2006
Yeah wind chill.I wish they never had come up with that crap.Anyway,it says "temperature". If it's 30 degrees outside and I'm going 90 mph,it's STILL 30 degrees outside.
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Wind chill and tempature are not the same thing. Wind chill is a made up scale to indicate approximately how fast you will cool off. The greater the breeze the faster you will lose heat; or gain heat if the ambient tempature is above your body tempature. Even if you are doing 100mph on a day that it is 50F though the surface temp of your helmet will still not drop below 50F.
 

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Old 01-18-2015, 07:58 AM
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Wow...30° at 65mph is -9°??? No wonder I froze to death last January when I rode 70 miles to Dallas.
 
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I find it funny that anyone still discounts wind chill.
 
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Ditto
 
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Originally Posted by weaverkb
I find it interesting that it heats up the faster you go once you get above that 90* mark. There's plenty of days like that down here in the summer. No wonder it feels like you're riding through a blast furnace.
Well, in Florida humidity has lots to do with how warm it feels.
 
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i need to move to warm weather state
 


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