Riding Temps

Tooooo Cold for me !!!

Then put me down for 33. All day! 65 in 55. Dang fun, but had to stop and warm up every hour or so. Funny how that chill builds up in your body to where it just don't want to go away.

Hit 55 today :d

Is there a chart for lower and higher temps?

I cant see that its totally correct. The last time i rode it was 45 and i hit over 75 for over 6 miles. According to this i would have frozen my skin and i wasnt wearing anything on my face.

Furball Zen said:

I cant see that its totally correct. The last time i rode it was 45 and i hit over 75 for over 6 miles. According to this i would have frozen my skin and i wasnt wearing anything on my face.

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If the ambient temp is above 32° F you will not freeze up, regardless of the wind chill temp.
Gets mighty uncomfortable, but you won't freeze unless ambient < 32°F.

Been riding this winter at near and below freezing lately but with a windshield, the only direct contact with wind is on my legs and goggles (that's probably not full wind either coming up and over the windshield). So when I feel a little cold it's on the little gap between goggles and balaclava. It's never felt more than just chilly. The chart says it should feel like - 9 degrees. Maybe it is that cold on that 1/4 inch strip of skin exposed but it's not so cold to be intolerable or even too uncomfortable. So I guess without a windshield you just need to bundle up more since your whole body would feel - 9.

17 Riding temp, Friday evening???
WOW!!!
I sure didn`t know that
Thermometer read, 41 degrees when I straddled the saddle for the ride home...

Thanks for this information HondaGuy...

I would be interested what 26 degrees at 60 mph. would be? In my advanced age I can't go much lower. 40 years ago I rode colder but now I'm just a wimp below 26.
Maybe I need to get some letrik gear?

What this chart tells me is that riding at 80*F is pretty awesome, a fact I already knew.

Rode to day temps got to 65 so i guess that would have made the wind chill at 49 think i'll build a fire just got cold

That chart needs higher speed ratings... OK 45 = 25 minus...

Thanks for posting that. I've often wondered what the wind chill riding is. I do high thirties at fifty mph going to work. It's not fun, but tolerable.