does cold affect helmets?
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Road Master
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From: la grange, il (near chicago)
does cold affect helmets?
was just wondering if there are any issues with keeping a helmet in the garage. unheated, unattached.
so here in chicago where the temps can go below zero - will it have any negative impact if i just leave it in the garage?
i am thinking it wouldn't, but you just never know.
so here in chicago where the temps can go below zero - will it have any negative impact if i just leave it in the garage?
i am thinking it wouldn't, but you just never know.
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mine are always in the garage and I have had no problems with them, over the winter I put them in their box and throw in a dryer sheet ( my Grandmother says they keep mice and bugs away)
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...a dryer sheet ( my Grandmother says they keep mice and bugs away)
...you're wearing em in the winter and with the wind chill factor getting down to zero or so.
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Not true, windchill will affect any inanimate object that is above ambient temperature. If this weren't the case, air cooled engines wouldn't make any sense, they'd run the same temperature regardless of whether they were standing still or running 70mph down the freeway. Wind cools objects more quickly that are above the ambient temperature than the same objects would cool without wind chill.
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Not true, windchill will affect any inanimate object that is above ambient temperature. If this weren't the case, air cooled engines wouldn't make any sense, they'd run the same temperature regardless of whether they were standing still or running 70mph down the freeway. Wind cools objects more quickly that are above the ambient temperature than the same objects would cool without wind chill.
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Funny, it could be 10 degrees outside or 110 degrees outside and my water cooled bike or cage will hit the same temperature. The Harley, an air cooled bike will still get up to temperature running on the 10 degree day, it just takes longer but is will eventually get there,
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Road Master
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Not true, windchill will affect any inanimate object that is above ambient temperature. If this weren't the case, air cooled engines wouldn't make any sense, they'd run the same temperature regardless of whether they were standing still or running 70mph down the freeway. Wind cools objects more quickly that are above the ambient temperature than the same objects would cool without wind chill.
Although, it's technically not wind chill that's cooling, it's actually heat loss by convection.
