I of course always try to be neither, but I am going to go with cold - I just get aggravated when I'm hot and my sweat is sweating and you can feel it running down the back of your neck. EUGHHH!
What about you guys/gals?
Yea me too ... love winter, I under dress slightly (Jacket and pants but all vents open and no inner ... ) and love it ... Ironically the humidity here in summer helps more than hurts ... I sweat a bit and then as the wind runs over ya its like A/C ... Just dont smell me when I get off the thing ...
Cool.
Srinath.
I would rather be hot. I have almost crashed from being too cold and not able to react quick enough.
there's nothin like good case of swamp ass to really make your day.
Hot it's easier to go faster than try to warm up.
I prefer to be warm. The cold hampers my reactions and tightens up the muscles unneccessarily.
being too cold makes it hard to concentrate clearly. It's like it just saps all of my mental ability. OTOH, being too hot makes me frustrated and angry and can turn me into a squid.
pick your poison...
rr = what exactly is a "squid" in the biking sense? lol
In the animal kingdom, a squid propels itself by filling its body with water and this squirting it out really hard. This causes them to move really fast in a straight line. But they don't turn so fast.
I hate swamp ass. Make me cold every time.
Hot makes me angry, cold tends to wake me up. I'll take cold, as long as my hands get to be warm
Dave :cheers:
Quote from: Maduro Mistressrr = what exactly is a "squid" in the biking sense? lol
Squid - Acronym, SQUirrely kID. 1. In reference to younger MC riders with little respect to posted speed limit laws, self safety or safety of others. 2. Inexperienced newcomer, someone trying to ride beyond his skill level with arms flailing (like a squid) to try not to fall. This may be just a Southern term. 3. Stupidly Quick, Underdressed, Imminantly Dead. 4 Any SportBike Rider - seems this term got twisted along the way and has many meanings. 5 Sportbike riders who wear tennis shoes or flip flops, shorts, tshirts, etc. on their nice shiny new sport bikes. 6 Anyone that rides without all proper gear , rides recklessly, or rides beyond their limits.
lmao.. I know what a squid is, but never realized where the derogatory term came from... and no bike for me yet, but I always prefer being cold to hot.. can always put more clothes on, can't take em off past a certain point.... Maduro Mistress, I checked out your site and was pleased to see that my first thought upon reading "Maduro" was correct, you are a cigar aficionado, excellent, I know who I'm going to for suggestions, and finally, Jake D has one of the best songs ever in his sig...
that is all...
Thanks for the definition guys! I'd heard the term before but didn't realize what it pertained to!
Niceguy - yep, that's me. Aficionado-ess :) a girly connoiseur :) Anything anyone ever needs to know about cigars lemme know! (Oh and if you need any I have about 700 in my humidor right now!)
If is is too cold I don't ride, cause of losing body parts to frostbite. If it is too hot I don't ride with proper gear, so if I go down I lose body parts.
I lose body parts either way. Although here in GA it never really gets TOO cold, so I'll go with cold to hot, and as stated before I can always put on more clothes.
Cigar smoking, motorcycle riding chicks are HOT! :kiss: :thumb:
Speaking of squid, I saw a great one yesterday when I was working on my bike. I heard a bike coming up the road, so I looked and it was a guy on a Gixxer 600 with a helmet, shorts, and hoop shoes. No gloves, no shirt, no jacket...sweet.
Dave :cheers:
Well I thought I had seen squids out here in Cali, but we are actually pussies compared to Indiana. My mouth dropped at the sight of the first biker without a helmet. Oh and then another and another. I saw a few wearing helmets and you know they get shaZam! for it. I would just get laughed at.
Then I saw this skinny older lady on a Harley. She comes flying past on the highway, left hand on her leg, tight short shorts, a wife beater type of girls shirt, no gloves, sandals, and no helmet. She was driving pretty aggressive too. I was like, I'm the biggest kitty cat on the planet. :( Her balls are bigger than mine. :oops: Oh wait, she did have on a pair of sunglasses. 8)
After being there for a week, I realize there are much more serious cases of squids than in California.
Oh yeah I also so somebody just wearing scrubs. Of course no helmet.
My personal favorites are the dudes with their Shoei helmets strapped to the back of the bike while they ride around. Seriously - why would you spend upwards of $500 for something that's going to collect dust?
Quote from: Maduro MistressMy personal favorites are the dudes with their Shoei helmets strapped to the back of the bike while they ride around. Seriously - why would you spend upwards of $500 for something that's going to collect dust?
Image. Look, I'm so rich I can afford a $500 helmet that I don't even wear!
Dave :cheers:
Cold.
It makes you feel alive. Plus I hate sweating.
(Though I hate the nose drible from the cold air.)
warm, because when your cold your reaction times are slower and you just feel stiff and rigid
Depends on the place, I guess. I live in Oregon, so cold is never too bad of a problem. WI, MN, etc. would probably vote for warm.
:cheers:
definately hot......but normaly i wear enough closing not to be cold, so it's not so bad
QuoteMy personal favorites are the dudes with their Shoei helmets strapped to the back of the bike while they ride around.
In Massachusetts, helmets are required. In New Hampshire, helmets are not required. In Rhode Island, helmets are only required for under 21's and permit holders. There always seems to be a few motorcycles pulled off to the side of the highway just across the border taking their helmets off and hanging them on the bike. *shakes head*
Quote from: BadgerQuoteMy personal favorites are the dudes with their Shoei helmets strapped to the back of the bike while they ride around.
In Massachusetts, helmets are required. In New Hampshire, helmets are not required. In Rhode Island, helmets are only required for under 21's and permit holders. There always seems to be a few motorcycles pulled off to the side of the highway just across the border taking their helmets off and hanging them on the bike. *shakes head*
I'd be tempted to carry bags that say "cyanide" and toss them at those folk. "Here, it'll be less messy!"
I prefer the cold. I can put more gear on more easily than I can take more gear off.
I just ordered a set of these in black:
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I'm going to look like (more of) a dweeb (than usual), but I'm going to be a warm dweeb, darnit!
:mrgreen:
Oh and if you need any I have about 700 in my humidor right now!)[/quote]
yoiu sound like my father-in-law. He has somewhere around 1000 right now. In the house he's building he's putting in a 'roomidor'
jake
Quote from: pandyI prefer the cold. I can put more gear on more easily than I can take more gear off.
I just ordered a set of these in black:
I'm going to look like (more of) a dweeb (than usual), but I'm going to be a warm dweeb, darnit!
:mrgreen:
You are going to look more like a duck than a dork.
Dave
Depends on how hot and how cold...
When you're kinda hot, you can adjust your vents, unzip a little, etc.
When you're really damn hot, you go home and have a lemonade.
When you're kinda cold, you're screwed if you don't have more gear to wear... Sweatshirt, etc.
When you're really damn cold, you go home and have a hot chocolate.
So... I'd say Hot. You'll sweat when you're not moving and any wind will cool you down at least a little. When you cold, you need to move around to get your muscles generating heat...
Hot~ I hate being cold anyway. But when I am riding the muscles tighten up, my prematurely arthritic joints hurt, and the nose dribbles.
I'll take the "hot" over the "cold" season any time. Once I start getting cold, the riding enjoyment starts going downhill fast. Slow, clumsy, numb and stiff physical characteristics do not enhance my enjoyment of riding. Nor does applying mutiple levels of protective gear to maintain normal body temperature increase my proficiency at riding "at speed". Gimme HOT any time!
Yeah... Save the frozen appendages and slow reaction times for snowboarding... At least then you can do a few shots of rum before you head out. :lol:
I would rather be Hot. Being cold just sucks :guns:
i'd rather be hot and sweating than fighting my body when it's stiff from the cold. i have perfed leathers so it's not a big deal unless it's over 100F
then again the most i ever ride at a time is maybe 30-40min. or so...
I prefer being warm (not hot) because my reaction time isn't retarded by the cold impeding my senses. Then again, I'm in Texas and am used to heat, I guess.
Quote from: 2005-GS500-PDXYou are going to look more like a duck than a dork.Dave
:? :lol: :P
I've already started layering on the cold-weather gear....glove liners under my winter gloves....two thick layers under my summer jacket... baklava for my head (kinda sticky, but nice and warm! ;) )
A little cold or a little hot is equally OK. A lot cold or a lot hot is equally bad, although in different ways. So I don't shoot to err on one side or the other; I shoot not to err.
That being said, it's easier to unzip and stow a thermal liner than it is to summon it from home with the power of my mind if I haven't brought it along.
My vote is for too hot. I can always unvelcro my collar and maybe unzip my jacket a little to cool down. On short trips, either way is fine. But on long trips, the cold is a killer. Last weekend, I drove ~250miles along Highway 1 in Northern California. I was wearing good gloves, good socks, riding boots, long underwear, jeans, t-shirt, long-sleeve jersey, fleece vest and a fleece long-sleeve on all underneath my riding suit. But after a while, that cool air passing through all your gear slowly sucks energy away. Whenever I cross the Central Valley (Sacramento) I just open a little ventilation and I'm fine. Either trip, I drink lots of water.
The bad thing is that loss of energy is sneakily slow. You don't notice it until you have to react to something unsuspected and realize that your reflexes aren't at 100%.
Ride safe,
* * * John
Pandy - it gets cold in Cali????
Quote from: Maduro Mistressit gets cold in Cali????
It gets cold in NorCal... Well, a little in SoCal too...
When I lived in Daly City it got down to 32 pretty regularly in the Winter time. In fact... A couple winters ago it snowed in the Bay Area.
SF is pretty damn cold most days no matter what time of year. Being right off the water with lots of fog and wind makes it pretty cold.
Not what someone from WI would call cold... But cold none the less.
I went from Chicago (birthplace) to Philly (college) to Bay Area (grad school). The Bay Area ain't cold! :P
Where did you live in the Bay Area?
Daly City is f%$king cold.
It darn tootin' gets cold in Cali...and the Bay Area! :P:P:P
When I lived in Pacifica, I kept the heat cranked full blast all summer. The summer fog was ICY!
Cold is relative...it's in the low 50's in the AM at the moment, and we've gotten used to days that are in the 80's and 90's. September is usually a hot month for us, and it's been about 15 degrees cooler than normal.
We may not be as cold as Washington or Canada or the North Pole, but we're cold here. :P:P:P :lol:
I lived in Berkeley and went to SF a lot. I don't think it ever got below 30F, and rarely got anywhere near there.
Chicago saw -45F a few times a winter, and I remember one day, winter 1993-4, when the wind chill got to -70F. Now that is cold.
Yeah... And space is cold too. :roll:
35 is cold when you live in SF... With the nasty-ass wind chill there... It gets plenty cold.
Yet another excellent reason for me not to live in Chicago...bRRRRRr! :o
of course it gets cold in southern cali! why, it once hit 65! brrr! we had people runnin around in ski jackets! =P seriously tho, i'd rather have the cold, so long as my hands can stay warm =P speakin of which, i hear that if you wear latex gloves underneath your riding gloves, that helps seal in alot of your body heat =)
hot any time any where i love the heat. see ya
Quote from: AgentNitzof course it gets cold in southern cali! why, it once hit 65! brrr! we had people runnin around in ski jackets! =P seriously tho, i'd rather have the cold, so long as my hands can stay warm =P speakin of which, i hear that if you wear latex gloves underneath your riding gloves, that helps seal in alot of your body heat =)
Yeah, that's because your hands can't breathe! I'm using silk liners, and soon I'll be putting on the handguards. Anything below 50 is cold to my 125lbs butt.
Quote from: scratchI'm using silk liners on my 125lbs butt.
See...I knew this was a kinky group. :lol:
I will not ride in the cold. I'll drive my truck. I'm OK down to the high 40s. I'm OK up to 105. So I guess I prefer the heat. Hey, I live in Az.
But, as they say Arizona is a dry heat, so at speed you don't really sweat, it evaporates that quick. Over 105 and it's just a blast furnace. It might hit 105 a few days here. In the winter it gets into the 20s, so Nov - Feb there are plenty of weeks I don't ride other than a warm afternoon. :mrgreen:
For me:
Hot = uncomfortable, but the ride can be fun
Cold = miserable, just plain miserable, plus you can lose skin without even crashing :o
Pandy - this am was 51 degrees on the way in - BRRR! I have to put the liner in my jacket :)
Quote from: Maduro MistressPandy - this am was 51 degrees on the way in - BRRR! I have to put the liner in my jacket :)
I'd probably have had my liner in when the temp hit 65! :lol: You're tough!! :cheers:
My feeling on the hot/cold issue is that it depends on how much I expect to be moving. I have yet to find a way to prevent it from feeling like 1000 degrees out when I'm not moving, but with any speed my gear ventilates pretty well. I generally find it's much easier to get warmer than to get cooler, assuming you plan ahead...perhaps it's more accurate to say it's easier to prevent getting cold than to prevent getting hot. I'm a cold-weather person (native New Englandah) and don't react well to heat. Last year my job took me to Florida for about 6 months and I thought I was going to die...going back and forth between 90 degrees/90% humidity and 30 degrees/6 feet of snow is hard on the soul.