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I live in Michigan, towards Ypsilanti. I ride all year around (Even in the snow). My motorcycle is my only source of transportation. Some tips I want to add/support. - If you think you are going to hit ice. Do not lean, brake, or give gas. Just coast straight up until you are out of the area. (Especially useful across bridges) - Ride in the tracks of other cars. There is likely to be less ice there. - As Cycle said, take the back roads. If you have a dual sport, the dirt roads can be the most fun. - Have crash guards, helps protect the plastic if you go down on ice or salt. ALSO good gear. - TAKE YOUR TIME. No rush, most people in cars should understand. I love your videos Cycle, keep them up!
I ride year-round as well and I absolutely enjoy cold-weather riding. I live in Des Moines and I ride down to 20F without heated gear and have no problems with cold. I do have very warm gloves and jacket, balaclava, and thermal inderlayer pants. My commute is about 30 minutes each way; I ride it every day unless there’s snow on the roads.
Left my house this morning at 36 degrees on my Sportster, I also ride year round. I never put my bike away for winter. I'm 55 & I'm not a fair weather rider like most guys. I don't even have a windshield, just dress properly & you can ride year round. If you love doing something, then do it no matter what the weather is.
Cold requires warm gear which equals more protection, feeling of safety, and visibility. I can't stand full gear on a hot day but I don't like the feeling of insecurity of being under dressed for a wreck so colder riding tends to make rides a little easier and less tense
I've riden in -5.8 F, i had to stop to a store to just warm hands a little bit. My hands weren't red, they were palish and hard. I even got rash under my jaw from that terrible tempature.
I commuted for over 40 years on motorcycles. I have heated gloves, heated vests, with or without heated collar. That’s the best. Heated grips… those Enduro nylon jackets do not stop the wind. Nothing stops the wind like leather, but leather is not warm. You have to have a larger leather jacket that you can put layers and electric vest under for winter commuting. Buy a pair of motorcycle boots one or two sizes larger so you can put layers of socks on I got caught at work five times over the years with surprise snow fall. One time I had to ride home in 5 inches of snow. It was OK. I was on my Honda CB 400 F that day. I live in Pittsburgh and there’s a lot of hills. That makes it interesting. But during those surprised snowstorms I got caught at work in, there was no melting of snow overnight and then having it get covered by snow which makes it very slippery. I just rode home in the crunchy snow which was not so bad. I do/did ride trail bikes for decades sometimes in snow, so it was nothing new to me never buy a motorcycle with ABS brakes if you think you might want to ride in the winter. If you hit snow or ice with a motorcycle that has ABS brakes, you will have no brakes..I don’t think, I know ABS brakes on motorcycles is very dangerous. I had experience with ABS brakes not working at all on my BMW a K 1200 LT. 900 pound motorcycle on a downhill gravel back road. I touched the brakes going downhill, the computer saw wheel slippage, I had no brakes at all front or rear I had a Moto Guzzi Norge/2007, for 14 years.. it had ABS brakes that could be turned off at the push of a button four times when you get onto gravel, wet grass in a camping ground, snow or ice… ABS and traction control is for idiots in cars. I actually crashed my motorcycle coming home from work one day were they over salted the road. The streets were dry, but there was about 50 pounds of salt where the cars had not crushed it up and blew it away. And I hit that with both wheels, and I went down. So you must watch out for the salt.. I do not ride my motorcycles once they start salting the roads. It just eats up the aluminum parts of the motorcycle that are not coated to protect them from salt to keep your face shield from fogging up, I wore the rubber part of an asbestos dust mask. It’s a very flexible rubber portion that’s designed to fit against your face. I put tire patches over the Hole in the front where the filter plugged in, but I left the hole for the exhaust of my breath at the bottom opened. I put that on my face and put my helmet on, my full face helmet keeps it in place. No fogging . this is a tip I learned from formula 1 car drivers. Get shampoo straight out of the bottle, and smear it on the inside of your face mask of your helmet. If you add a little water you can get it to smooth out into a clear sheet that will not distort your vision. This will not fog.. to this day I always carry a small 1 ounce plastic bottle of shampoo in my tank bag, or saddlebag. Forthree reasons- I can use it to do a cleanup after doing a roadside repair like. plugging a tire. I can also use the bottle of shampoo to wash my hair in my whole head on a hot day at the side of the road where there could be water available such as in a park where they have Fossetts for filling jugs or sometimes here in Pennsylvania they will have pipes coming right out of a hillside where you can fill your gallon jugs of water with fresh uncontaminated spring water. That is very refreshing on a hot day to takeoff your helmet, and shampoo your hair and wash your head with shampoo- and of course the third reason I carry a shampoo bottle is, if I ever get caught in cold weather and my shield starts to fog, I can smear shampoo and a little water to smooth it out on the inside of my face shield to prevent fogging.. If you can keep your torso of your body warm, your body will not start to shut down the blood flow to your hands and feet to preserve heat to your internal organs which is what it does when your body starts to lose heat. It makes your hands and feet cold first.. A taller windscreen and even a faring to protect your hands from the wind will help.. on an 80° day, at 60 miles an hour, your body is subjected to a windchill of 55° I like the heated grips because you don’t need thick gloves. As a matter of fact, the thinner the glove, the more heat you get through the Groves into your hands. While you were riding in cold weather, keep your hands on the grips and keep your fingers together.. I glue weather I have kept from shortening leather jeans on my clutch and brake levers. If you commute, and are working the clutch & brake levers in cold temps,Those levers if they’re not covered with something like leather, they suck the heat right out of your fingers. Cover your levers even if you have to use tape. They sell lever covers called skins I think.. I think they are made out of some kind of rubber. I just use leather because I’ve been doing that for decades on all my motorcycles. I am on my 108th motorcycle right now here in October 2021.. I too hate riding in temperatures above 85°. Summer can be miserable. That angry red ball in the sky, insects plastering your face shield and windshield, I wear all the gear all the time so it’s usually hot when the temperature goes above 75 to me at stop signs & redlights..But spring and fall are dangerous in their own way. I have impacted two deer while riding.. commuting at 7 o’clock in the morning on my Honda Pacific coast at 35 miles an hour. The deer took off my front fender and the right side of my faring. I did not go down. my first deer impact was on my BMW K 1200 LT. The sun has just gone down in May. I hit that deer right in the rib cage with my headlight area of my faring at 70 miles an hour. $5500 damage. I coasted to a stop in the darkness, then I got excited. I did not go down..I don’t ride at night anymore
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Thanks for the tips. One year I went out too early in the season, rodes seem clear but one, sharp 80 degree corner on a favorite road had ice. I was on a BMW R1200C and started to slide during the turn. I straightened in up, rode up the embankment and back down to the road without wrecking. I shook for ten minutes afterwards. Scary as hell!
There are mainly two tings that keep me from riding in the winter. Road salt eating away at my bike and rock hard tires because of the rubber compound. I can't be bothered to change to winter tires just for a month or two, so the bike goes into the shed where I tinker with it during the cold months. Everything else there are solutions for. Cheers from Denmark!
the coldest I have ever rode in is 23ºf. Wish I had heated Gloves then. It was 55º when I had left for work, and started snowing which the Weather channel was not calling for." SURPRISE" got home safely
In addition to heated gear (or as a cheaper alternative) one can try the three layer principle too. It works great for me in Sweden when I ride during the winter. A tight wool shirt nearest the skin covered by a wool/polyester jacket/hoodie and finally a water proof motorcycle jacket. With this I can ride in near freezing temperatures and stay nice and warm.
When I got my first motorcycle I gave no thought to not writing it in the winter time but 32° in Florida is about as cold as it would get in Southwest Florida in February. It's not like I'm dealing with 10 foot snow drifts and Five Below Zero. It introduced me to the exhilarating Rush of riding a motorcycle in the brisk cold air. I love to see the exhaust puffing smoke into the air in the winter time another sign that the bike was alive.
i live in the PNW, on the coast, where day winter temps are often in the low forties. At 40 over the passes, is cold enough. For me, a decent windscreen, heated grips, a heated jacket liner, and Hippo Hands really keep me toasty! Enjoyed your video...
I have heated gear and ride most of the year. Last year there was about two weeks I didn't because of snow. Thanks to you. I bought the bike to ride not to sit in the garage.
Be careful of roads that are pretreated...it's very slippery! They're predicting some snow tomorrow and apparently some towns pretreat their roads. I was riding along in a straight line accelerating away from a light, admittedly smashing the throttle, and all of a sudden the rear tire loses traction and slides a little but luckily it fixed itself as I instantly let off the throttle. I then realized what those streaks I had been seeing on the road were...pretreatment. I pulled over and checked the road surface and it was as slick as oil. So I took it easy the rest of the way until the next town, where the roads were untreated. Lesson learned.
when i was a teenager in 80s i rode my first bike here in huddersfield yorkshire uk i rode a honda c90 in all weather your weather in ohio seems simular to yorkshire once i got a car bikes have been summer only except this year i made a promise to myself ride a min of 1 hour each month of winter my lowest temp i will ride is around 40 degrees or 5 degrees f i think it is this year i added a 2005 r1200rt my gosh this bike is supreme in cold weather i use thermal gear and dainese gortex top and bottoms apline stars leather gortex semi winter gloves and the beema heated grips and heated seat are awsome the front edge of glove is pretty warm cos the rt has so much weather sheilding my z1000sx has heated seat and grips but i still feel well cold i have a tuono as well but thats tucked up as its only got heated grips
Canton Ohio here. I love riding all year in the cold. No one else is ever out, especially the Harley badass. Too funny. Not below 32 tho, the bridges will f up your day. Klr w/heated grips here.
Hey man, people say you shouldn't skateboard in the winter, I'm out skating few times a week still. I just abide by similar rules, stay off iced roads, and avoid road salts and such.
crash bars!!! Have saved my leg and bike more times then I can count man. Ride all year round. Heated gloves wired to the 12v battery with fuse block, and a ski jump suit that gos on easy over my clothes easy on, easy off, also let your foot down every so often and touch the ground quicken different surfaces it let's you feel how slippery give or take the type your on is. That's as good as it gets as far as reading the ground. Winter is winter.. Took me a season or 2 to get it down but no big thing now.
I have windproof gloves that work great with my jacket and pants with the hot hands..i live in NY and have rode year long last 4 years..got a ninja 250r which is great in winter and a katana 600 which i ride as long as its about 40°
i’m looking into getting a motorcycle as a secondary daily driver. i live in upstate new york as well and it gets very very cold out here. any suggestions as to riding in the winter when coming down to a certain type of bike for beginners ?
@@trippinxottic-_-2322 you dont want to ride a 1000cc in winter lol...my 600 likes to break loose on cold days so i stick with my ninja 250 as long as the roads are fine it runs good...get good gloves and thermals too
Got brand new tires on my 2000 Ducati Monster in the spring. When I went to pick up the bike it had started sleeting, in April, WTF?!? Brand new tires on wet sleety roads. No f'd up day for me though, thank Jebus.
Yeah got me a few times as well. I usually don't venture out too far from, the one time I did I thought I was going to get hypothermia because I was lost at the same time when it started snowing. lol I prayed hard that day.
Whoever put thumbs down on your videos dude they obviously are not motorcyclists true motorcyclist I'll be doing what you do I would because I like the winter time too You're not the only one that rides in the winter I heard other people ride up until it wasn't 50's anymore below degree level I was just wondering basically if you weren't going to ride your bike in the winter if it's best to to start your motorcycle up just keep everything lubricated and stuff but when I saw you riding in the winter time that's why I'd be doing too check on the weather and all that and it was a great video screw the haters if you don't understand the love of motorcycling I have even started but once I got on it for the first time at my motorcycle safety program at Mott in Fenton that's when I knew I was made to ride a motorcycle.
CycleCruza I do it not only bc I love motorcycles but the savings on car payments, insurance an gas are to much to ignore. I have an Olympia suite an thermals that keep me toasty. Haven’t invested in any heated gear yet.
I couldn't bring myself to upload it. lol Tough to see me having a melt down and pissed off at myself for taking the key out of the ignition. I still might upload it tho. lol
Yeah, I wanted to see that, too. With all the decision making CC has been doing for his next bike, I thought maybe he simply forgot to upload it. Though I can fully understand if someone doesn't want to show video of themselves having a meltdown. That'd be a moment of my life that's pretty hard to share.
CycleCruza I can understand that! Lol had a similar thing happen to me a few months ago but with my padlock key for my chain. So I could start the bike but it wasn’t going anywhere! Haha
I also keep my motorcycle insured throughout the year ( located in southern British Columbia). If the conditions are right I ride as often as I can. We have winters that can get occasionally get pretty severe, but there are other winters that it hardly snows at all and temperatures hover above the freezing level. Gotta watch for black ice though...plus road temperatures and tire temperatures. Haven't sprung for any heated gear yet, but I just dress accordingly and generally I'm fine. I ride a 2002 CBR 600 F4i. Thanks CycleCruza, I enjoy tour videos! (PS: having a hard timing guessing what your new bike is...whatever it is, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.)
When I lived in Idaho, I would stud my bike tires and ride in ice and snow. I would also wear snowmobile gear. Snowmobile gloves are the warmest and cheapest. The only problem I ever really had in riding in cold conditions was dot approved helmets are so cold. But what I did was buy a bigger helmet and wear a benie inside my helmet. Worked great. It only really got bad to ride when it got below 0F, because it got really hard to start my bike.
CycleCruza Not anymore. My bike has been sitting for 10yrs. Needs some work. I was about to start working on it again, but just as soon as I got the cobwebs dusted off I got fired last month. So back to storage it went. I'm going to upgrade it to a café scrambler. My bike is my profile pic. It's a 81 GS650GL Suzuki. I'm going to do a RU-vid series of the build.
Chris M I live in Washington now, and have fond that snowmobile gear works great here in the cold rainy winters here. It doesn't get as cold on the Pacific coast, so I'm a little warmer than needed wearing it, but I'm warm and very dry.
I lived in colorado, as you know it can be unpredictable there, even in the summer! lol When I stayed in Cripple Creek once it snowed like 5 inches in July. Crazy! However, there are many great riding days in the winter there, Just make sure to only ride from like 12 pm to 3 pm just to be safe, when the sun is most active. Avoid night riding in the winter.
If you're taking a "warming back up" break. Put your gloves on the exhaust. (if it's not Very hot). If you don't have heated gloves it will give you a little extra heat. I can't ride in the winter/late fall/early spring 'cuz it's -20 degrees Celsius or below here. That's the same temperature as your deep freezer.
I agree with every single tip you mentioned but when it comes to number 5, when it starts snowing I (personally) wouldnt recommend using low traffic roads. Yeah its definitely gonna be less safe regarding other vehicles around you but when it snows the road is close to freezing point so first the snow will melt and slowly turn into ice at some point. Tires warm up the street so depending on how bad the situation is I'll actually try to get into areas with more traffic. You gotta be aware of your surroundings tho. If you see someone acting a little shady on the road, get out. Either speed up, brake or go a different direction. Im a winter guy just like you. Riding all year long Ride safe out there!
Watching this exactly 3 years since this was posted, gonna take this as a sign to get a motorbike after I convert my Ambo to an rv and I’m exciiiitttteeeeddddd lol
My record is 18 degrees. No heated gear. Commuting home from work. Started to freezing rain another time. By the time I got into town I had to flip my visor up because it was covered in ice. pulled in my driveway just before the road iced up. I'm not as crazy anymore lol
This will be my third winter riding. At 18 degrees my clutch cable froze on me. Had to pull over for a few minutes to thaw. Had to keep working the clutch to stop it from freezing again. So now I don’t ride if the temp is below 25. Good info on the gloves. I’ll click the link.
Cool to see Guys they are crazy like me. I ride also many Wintertimes in the past. Every Noob can ride in Summertime. But in Winter just the real Biker can drive. 👍
The thing is ohio winter is like spring in southern Canada and like summer in northern Canada. Some parts of northern Canada goes below freezing in the hottest month.
I genuinely think CycleCruza is related to me because we are so similar because when I get his age I wanna build a bug out van and put my dirt bike in there and just bug out around the country
Tip number 0, get some winter tyres. Nothing will F up your day like a set of Pirelli hockey pucks for tyres. Get some Heidenau SnowTeks. Even if the roads are clear and dry the much softer compound has much better grip even when it's still 10C.
In jersey we can go down to -2F. My main tip would be to stay as upright as possible and stay in the lowest gear possible. I'd also recommend staying off the front brake or your day will be real F****_ up
other way round on the gears mate, get up the gears quicker than usual take corners/bends a gear higher than you might usually. lower the gears the more likely to spin up
For 3 years ive been doing it the wrong way😥 Thanks for the info. With my current ride its actually hard to get out of 2nd if theres ice/snow on the ground. Id be at like 1100rpm in 3rd going 20
end of the day use whatever gearing you feel most in comfortable to control the bike but generally its a good idea to opt for the higher option so if you would normally take a roundabout ( not sure if you have them over there lol) or bend in say 2nd do it in 3rd. ANother tip use your engine braking more.
I know what you mean about riding in the winter. My current streak of riding to work will hit 34 months in December. Good tips about winter riding. I don't do the heated gear thing, but with heated grips and the fairly big windscreen on the FJR, I don't really need it, as the wind's already pretty well blocked. I do wear thermal under my pants once it's close to freezing, but other than that, a fleece under my mesh jacket does me fine.
your all working on keeping warm and I'm working on cooling the shit down. Hot as a Chinese Wok here! Just purchased a military grade cooling jacket. Now to work on the cooling fluid, pump and backpack... Oh I love gadgets...
Oh by the way....one more suggestion......lined gore tex pants are the best! I wear Dainese and no matter the temp I've never been cold. Even use them if I'm out watching winter sports.
When I’m riding when it’s cold and I’m on my dual sport. I always put the palms of my hands on the crank case. It’s nice and hot but not hot enough to melt gloves. I do it when waiting at traffic lights.
I started riding in the winter. Now that I have a lot more miles under my ass the rain doesn't concern me. It is those damn prius drivers. It snows very rarely here.
Grats. Get that throttle control and rev matching down before you go riding around on wet ground though. You jerk that rear wheel and you are gonna have a bad time. @smeg they are smelling their own farts, taking selfies, and trying to run you down while they drive.
Is there snow there? Snowy weather is unpleasant, but not by the snow, because of the salt they lay on the road, spoils the bike, you leave and then you have to wash the bike with cold water all the time.
