Not cold enough For lighting a fire oop North yet, We're just using it for Mr snowman's eyes for now.
See! You all mocked my concerns! But now look. This is on a regional news feed, The Express & Echo, this morning! This is my actual street! If the residents weren't all in bed by half past seven, who knows what horrors this could have caused.
Have to ask Who the hell leaves a trampoline out & set up when a storm is coming, if it hit & damaged my stuff, the trampoline would be the least of their problems
All calm down in paradise this morning, the commute was only noticeable by wet roads and the odd twig here and there and quite mild. The palm trees had extricated themselves from their heated jackets when I went out in the garden first thing.
Amber Weather Warning (North): Pull darn thee shirts sleeves lad! Amber Weather Warning (South): Get Jeeves to warm your mittens on the Aga...
Winter has come to the Garden of England, its got down to freezing point, so the liners have been zipped into the Rukka for the first time since 2013, set off just before 6, jeez was it chilly, roads totally frosted out due to Kent County Council not deploying their gritting budget in my village, couple of miles up the road on an unlit B road, take a bend at 40, and all I can see in front of me is slush puppy, burst water pipe somewhere I guess, and the road is just like the frozen tundra. Major buttock clenching moment to get my full attention and fully wake me up. Biking Gods on my side today, run wide, very wide but somehow the PR4s and a large slice of luck managed to keep upright. Lucky Monday Respect to you Northern boys living in a freezer for most of the year.
Now today is winter cold even in the Costa del Kentshire, any exposed skin starts to seriously sting at motorway speeds............I spent the whole 20 miles of motorway hallucinating about heated grips, never had them but must be going soft they are on my mind now, not many bikers out there now, but most of them looked pretty smug sitting at the lights with steam coming off their heated grips
Well had our 4th Frost of the year this morning so nothing like the north has had. Only had a light sprinkle of snow last week Seems the weather forcast can't get it right. earlier in the week we are told very cold night for us.Nope. yet it's colder this morning
With the mileage you do I would be more tempted by heated gloves. In the past have have used motorbike muffs and they made a huge difference as they keep the windchill away. Were that good that commuting from Lincoln to Bristol during Dec/Jan/Feb I would just have the heated grips on their lowest setting. Look absolutely naff though.
Totally know what you mean about heated grips dude.. I questioned my manliness when thoughts of them entered my head, then heard that the S1000rr has them, so they must now be socially acceptable for men to wear such things Get them on mate and feel the love
My HP4 has them, total waist of time for me, would never take my baby out if it's cold enough to use them
Had a bad experience years and years ago with handlebar muffs, fitted them to a naked 500, after a period of time I realised the brakes were dragging, being a particularly slat laden mucky winter, I spend a Saturday morning stripping down and resealing the calipers, next week same problem, checked everything over and wheel is spinning OK, then it hits me, the bloody muffs are distorting at speed and moving just enough to impact on the brake lever They went straight in the bin.
I had heated grips on my Ducati. They heated up really well, but, and this may sound odd, but my palms and the inside of my finger joints felt lovely and toasty, but my knuckles stayed bloody freezing, so it was never quite the solution I had hoped for. Keep thinking about heated gloves, but also being drawn back to grips because of the idea of the cruiser ones that are a bit fatter. I wondered whether they may help the old arthritis.
