24 Degrees F.
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From: Hudson Valley, NY
Why chaps? Over pants are just as easy to put on over jeans and are a lot warmer and protective. IMO Olympia gear rocks quality wise, have their jacket and pants, lot better than Tourmaster, Joe Rocket and others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhhz5...layer_embedded
Not pimping for Revzilla, they just have good videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhhz5...layer_embedded
Not pimping for Revzilla, they just have good videos.
j/k i actually like sport tourers...
these look good but the price is high and i only have a schott perfecto leather, would look a bit odd together. if i come into money though i can invest in real decent cold weather gear like this. i've always just winged it, but i must be getting old because today i was friggin cold and i need something more...
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From: Hudson Valley, NY
Babalu (I propose a truce, my fiesty young friend, and no doubt a fine Marine in your day...despite your obvious and arguably justified disgust with the more odious aspects of the Marine Corps)...a pair of leather pants are far more versatile than chaps for riding in all sorts of weather....select a size that fits over your jeans...to some extent they work as well as rain gear, and with a little care will provide many years of service. Yes, they might appear almost as gay as chaps, but only in seedier venues in San Francisco. A good pair 'wear like iron'.
i'll take a look at the leather pants to fit over my jeans, gay or not, i'm friggin cold...
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That you did! I have no doubt you were never a brown-noser, and some of the finest marines I have ever known served a single enlistment, and turned down promotions out of contempt for office pogues and REMF's. Ride safe, young brother.
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From: True North
.... Faber has it right .... took a 3 day survival course and there were 2 instructors
1. an American jet pilot that flew recon over the arctic
2. eskimo that worked a commercial trap line in the arctic.
Layers and more layers. Staying comfortable is a matter of adding and subtracting layers. No need to run hot .... or get cold.
Temps reached 50 deg F today, wife rode her rebel for an hour, your all crazy .... no, no, I meant to say, 'hats off to all of yah',... I hate it ... but we have had an exceptionally nice fall in the Cdn. prairies.
1. an American jet pilot that flew recon over the arctic
2. eskimo that worked a commercial trap line in the arctic.
Layers and more layers. Staying comfortable is a matter of adding and subtracting layers. No need to run hot .... or get cold.
Temps reached 50 deg F today, wife rode her rebel for an hour, your all crazy .... no, no, I meant to say, 'hats off to all of yah',... I hate it ... but we have had an exceptionally nice fall in the Cdn. prairies.
Last edited by lakeman; Nov 3, 2010 at 10:28 PM.
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.... Faber has it right .... took a 3 day survival course and there were 2 instructors
1. an American jet pilot that flew recon over the arctic
2. eskimo that worked a commercial trap line in the arctic.
Layers and more layers. Staying comfortable is a matter of adding and subtracting layers. No need to run hot .... or get cold.
Temps reached 50 deg F today, wife rode her rebel for an hour, your all crazy .... no, no, I meant to say hats off to all of yah,... I hate it. .. but we have had an exceptionally nice fall in the Cdn. prairies.
1. an American jet pilot that flew recon over the arctic
2. eskimo that worked a commercial trap line in the arctic.
Layers and more layers. Staying comfortable is a matter of adding and subtracting layers. No need to run hot .... or get cold.
Temps reached 50 deg F today, wife rode her rebel for an hour, your all crazy .... no, no, I meant to say hats off to all of yah,... I hate it. .. but we have had an exceptionally nice fall in the Cdn. prairies.
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From: Southern California
I went for a ride tonight when I got home from work. It was still over 80 when I left at about 6:30 in the evening. I got back home about 8:30. Still in the low 80's. I never even put on a jacket. I know I'm a weather wimp, but I like to ride all year long and SoCal allows year round riding. We'll have to see where I go when I retire and leave California.
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From: Southern California
I absolutely refuse to live where water can actually turn solid (or so I've been told) if it's left outside overnight.
Weather update . . . . It's 9:30 PM and it is presently 76 F here in the LA area. Of course I'm near the ocean here in Long Beach, so it's a bit cooler here than other areas.
I spent a decade one year in Detroit, so I know from cold . . . riding a bike in March . . . in 20 F weather . . . just because . . . never again!
Weather update . . . . It's 9:30 PM and it is presently 76 F here in the LA area. Of course I'm near the ocean here in Long Beach, so it's a bit cooler here than other areas.
I spent a decade one year in Detroit, so I know from cold . . . riding a bike in March . . . in 20 F weather . . . just because . . . never again!
