Rode from the Oklahoma border to Sedalia, Mo. 31 degrees and snowing. I was so cold I had to get in the shower to thaw out.

 

This was one of the coldest.

Trying to get to Show Low, AZ. Rained all day until it got cold enough to snow, ice under the snow - that's why were using our boots as outriggers.


My Wide Glide.


My brother.

 

2009
We had just purchased heated gear. Left home at 18 degrees sunny and dry with a promise of mid 40's in the afternoon. That Gerbing stuff works GREAT!

2012
New Years Day "Polar Bear Ride" with group from Rolling Thunder. Rode up to Shady Valley and did the Snake. High for the day was 32 degrees. We got to the store and all bought Ice Cream!

2014
Left home in the SNOW heading to Daytona for Bike Week. The weather front came in quick. We were planning to leave the next day but it started snowing. We actually made the decision, loaded up and were ion the road in less than an hour. Snow was already built up on our drive, and was building up on the center of the roadways and shoulders. We followed a semi on I-40 West and stayed directly in his tracks. Made the turn very carefully onto I-77 South. Went about two miles and saw a biker that had gone down. Rescue was already there. Kept trucking and ran out of the snow south of Mooresville. Then south of Charlotte is got dark and rained like crazy! We got to Columbia, SC where we stayed the night around 9pm. WET AND COLD!!!
I WILL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

2017
Yeah this year heading to Daytona again it was COLD and VERY windy the day we were leaving. Windchill was like 22 degrees with actual temp around 35. Instead of leaving at 7am as planned we left at 12 noon and made it to Orangeburg, SC. The older I get the colder I get. Would not be possible without heated gear!

 

Does marriage count?

 

A "Toys for Tots", run, December 1st. Lived out in the NW Burbs of Chicago at the time. 55 miles to staging, plus the run, and home. 17°F Never again!😱

 

Left for Daytona during the polar blast couple of years ago. Rode for 8 hours with actual air temp around 22-24 degrees. Don't know what the windchill running a steady 80 mph was and didn't want to know! My heated gear barely kept up, was glad to park it for the night somewhere in NC, the next day was much nicer, in the mid 30's and 40's. When I got to Daytona, all I heard was bitching about how cold it was 50's and 60's. Locals were geared up in fleece and leathers in 65 degree weather, LOL!

 

I was there. Didn't find that kind of weather. Had one day of heavy rain. Otherwise it was comfortable.

 

The end of april/first couple days of may this year, me and a buddy did a 5 day trip from Minneapolis to Texas Hill Country. We wanted to do the Ozarks, but almost all of the US was set up for torrential rain. Luckily for us, we hit sleet too :/

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/road-...country-2.html

Check out page 2 of this link. We rode two days from the TX Panhandle to Minneapolis in 2 days. Never stopped raining. Never warmer than 42 and never colder than 33. Winds I doubt ever were below 20 MPH. Mostly 30 MPH with gusts each day nearing 50 mph. We zig zagged to avoid snow. The 2nd day, we woke up to sleet. It was 33 degrees with steady 35 MPH winds. Gusts up to 50. I've ridden in a lot of garbage, but we could barely deal. Our gear soaked thru every day. I hate heated gloves and liner. Buddy just had heated seat and grips. I thought he was getting hypothermia at one point. Made it back to MPLS at midnight. Snow started coming down less than an hour behind us.

A trip I'll never forget. And would never do again...... maybe

 

The coldest ride that I've done was in Alaska (early June).
Not sure of the actual temps but the useless air temp gauge om my Ultra was reading in the high 20's as I was riding by a lake that still had ice on it.

It turned out to be slower ride than what I expected so I was on the bike a lot longer and I finally gave up and stopped at a restaurant and put on all of my thermal gear and then covered my leathers with my rain suit!

That was the coldest ride (of any distance) that I've taken but it's not the coldest that I've ever been on a motorcycle.
Back around '80, I was headed south for the Labor Day Weekend (and a good ride) but I got a later start than usual and left the Detroit area just after 1:00PM , on a hot, beautiful sunny, high 70's degree day.
By 6:00 PM or so I was in southern Ohio and when the temps started to drop a bit I put on my denim Levi jacket and continued on.
About an hour or so later, I stopped and put on a sweatshirt under the Levi and continued on.
By close 7:00PM, I was running parallel to the Ohio River and the fog was starting to roll in and I knew that I had made a huge error in not bringing my leather jacket!
By 8:00PM I had to stop and I was shaking so badly that I was spilling coffee on my hands as I was trying to get it down in order to warm up.

At that point I only had about an hour and a half ride to go so once I warmed up a bit I made the rest of the trip in 25 mile intervals with a coffee at every opportunity.

That was when I created my "self mandated rule) of the bike doesn't go anywhere without a leather jacket in a saddlebag!
To this day, my leather gear (I have different weights) stays in my RH saddle bag, and my rain gear and tools stays in my LH saddlebag.

These days, I have a heated seat and hand grips, heated gloves and a heated jacket, as well as a FF modular helmet and a leather "dickey" for my neck. Even with all of this, my thoughts are that when it's below 45 degrees, I have a truck with a heater!

 

Rode to Vegas in early May. Going from Wells to Ely NV it was -5 C or about 23 F. Friggin cold. No heated clothing. Leathers and rain gear helped. Brrrr. It's only 140 miles but it was at the end of a 600 mile day. Blech.