Coldest....

[njdevils1990]

So after just getting home 5 minutes ago and riding 7miles in 23 degrees i was wondering...whats the coldest temperatures you have ridden in? Today being the coldest for me next to the first day i got my xb9r on the road it was 25 that day in March 2011.

 

[iman501]

yea the day i went and test drove mine was the coldest for me, it was in the low 20's in chicago area

 

[BuellRiderX]

In Portland. At 5 30 in the morning on the way to work maybe 30ish degrees? Wearing boots, jeans, shirt, hoodie, motorcycle jacket, gloves, and helmet. Quite fun

 

[njdevils1990]

It honestly wasnt too bad other than my hands freezing and the visor fogging up every time i exhaled lol

 

[pur pony]

I ride into the lower 30s or so. I have a 45 min ride to work so i wear my black leather polaris snowmobile suit and stay toasty warm. also wear my sled helmet with a heated shield to keep it from fogging.

 

[ducrider]

I am a year round rider down here in the south.I have rode in 24 degree weather a few times.It's more about the correct riding gear than anything.

 

[Buell_Cru]

Same here, year round. I've ridden as low as 7 degrees but usually won't ride if it's below 15.

 

[c818919]

Ive seen 15 on a bank a time or two...i think 12 though

 

[xtremelow]

Sunny, dry, but only 19deg myself with BuellChick on the back. I made it 3mi turned around and went back needless to say I was not dressed for the weather. Been on a few mid 20deg rides but don't feel to safe ring with such cold roads.

This was back in '07 on a 30deg day, dressed for it (layers!) and rode a solid 50mi, but I don't ride below 50deg anymore. Bike is put away once the temps start to fall come fall time and it doesn't come out of the garage till April.

 

[vance580]

Its all about the gear. I've rode a few days to school at about 27-29 early in the morning. Got my Buell in Aug and trying to be an all year rider so far so good for gear. I wear thermal pants and shirt, jeans, insulated overpants, t shirt 3 weather insulated coat with fleece liner, some all weather thinsulate riding gloves, waterproof boots, balaclava, and of course helmet. I keep glove liners and a neck gaitor in my pack in case I need them and havent had to get them out yet. The worst part is my gloves are so warm my hands sweat and when I take them off and the cold air hits the sweat my hands get cold and I have to take them off to get my helmet strap undone.

 

[vtech007]

Ditto on it's all about the gear you wear. I ride year 'round, regardless of tempurature, 15 min. - 30 min. commute each way depending on traffic. I generally do not intentionally ride in the wet, but if precip is not actually falling when I leave home, roads wet or not, I take the bike. Certain times of the year, I do get caught in the rain on the way home, which doesn't bother me because obviously I can dry off when I get home. But the topic here is the lowest temp, and I have left home in the morning time and again when it is below freezing. I guess the coldest was down in the teens - then obviously tack on the wind chill factor, what ever that makes it. No real special cold riding gear for this relatively short ride. A scarf wrapped beneath the full-coverage helmet always helps things greatly to keep the wind off of the vunerable neck area.

 

[garyphantom222]

Even with gear on I never have been riding at below 30 since I was in school,this is in Alabama.

 

[GOduc]

I was without my truck for a few weeks. Only had the bike. Had to be at work at 645am. Wake up, check the weeather app---23 with a windchill of 15. And it was all highway about 20 minutes. It being an open interstate, I did about 85 the entire way. Don't ever plan on doing it again, unless I have heated gear. I was breathing smoke inside my helmet with the visor closed and locked. No thanks!

 

[thunderstormgrowl]

For a long ride, 22 and I was on the bike for about an hour. (even with my winter gloves I couldnt feel anything for about 15 min.)

On a short ride, I want to say 15. The day before had been warm and melted the ice off the roads, and there was no precipitation overnight so the roads were completely clear.

 

[freak2180]

This past Sat I left for a ride and it was 27-28 when I pulled out at 6am. No special riding gear here........ Just layers. covered about 200 miles that day and it got up to around 50 by enx of day, but the early morning sub freezing hey ride was fun.

 

[ct1200]

Coldest I believe was in the 20's, but during the daylight hrs, once the sun drops even 50 can be pretty miserable.
I used to ride most of the winter myself, heated gloves go a long way to help, but parking sucks where I work now so its just not really worth it when the temp drops.

 

[RdrChRy]

I am basicly just reliving my teenage years in this, my second carreer of motorcycling. It is purely for pleasure and I have no desire to abuse myself, I have nothing to prove to anyone, I seek no awards for the coldest day of riding. Also, I will never, ever subject one of "my babies" to salted roads. That being said I have ridden as cold as 28 degrees and would do so again. However I have found that the sun means everything. I have felt colder on dark, dull, dreary 40 degree days than I did on the sunny 28 degree day.

 

[Alfatango1]

I used to work for FedEx at the airport down here in San Diego and would ride at 4:00AM. The coldest was like 39 once or twice in the winter. 20 minute ride was fine with layers but my cheap leather and Thinsulate gloves would not keep out all of the cold. If I had to do it again I would get liners or way better gloves.

 

[wolfo68]

coldest that I actually knew the temp was just below 20 and I was going about 85 for an hour against the wind.

I know I've done colder, but I purposefully didn't check the temp.. on one of my dumber days I rode the bike and managed to drop my core body temp to around 90. that was fun[down]

 

[BuellyBagger]

32degrees with a 35mph cross wind from lincoln to neb city about 50mins @ the speed limit.... slightly shorter at the 80-85 i was doin. that was chilly enuff 4 me.